PrepStar Grinder Baseball, a travel baseball program based out of Cobb County / Smyrna, is seeking players for our new 13U team interested in long-term development from 13U through 17U designed to maximize each player’s opportunity to play college baseball.
Tryouts will be held on August 3rd at Whitefield Academy in Mableton, GA from 9AM to 10:30AM. There is no cost for the tryout.
Team advisor and Coordinator Mike Shaheen, varsity head baseball coach at Whitefield Academy who formerly coached at Wesleyan High School, will lead the staff and along with Head Coach Chan English who has several years of high school and travel ball coaching experience.
In his 8 years at Wesleyan, Shaheen coached 17 Division 1 college baseball players and several D2/D3 players. His coaching style is focused on holistic training and player development. During his coaching career, he has developed strong relationships with many college coaches, which have benefited his players as they advanced beyond high school and into their college careers.
Coach English has coached high school, middle school and travel baseball teams in the Atlanta area since 1998. Currently, Coach English is the Head Coach at Dunwoody High School.
Coach Shaheen and Coach English will create a customized development plan for each player designed to improve their baseball skills. The coaches will also meet with the players and parents throughout the season to measure each player’s progress towards their development plan.
Weekly practices will begin in September 2018 and will continue throughout the course of the season until June 2019. Practices will include weekly outdoor/indoor team and positional practices as well as individual instruction with professional coaches at Pinnacle Prospects, the premier indoor facility in Cobb County.
Pinnacle’s professional staff will run a throwing program focused on building arm strength along with proper mechanics to reduce arm injuries from occurring.
Professional recruiting services will be provided throughout high school by
If interested, please send your son’s information to pstarbaseball@gmail.com and we will contact you with further details about the tryouts.
Address for Tryouts: 1 Whitefield Drive SE Mableton, GA 30126
Directions to the field: Turn off of Buckner Road into the main Whitefield entrance Take your first right down a small paved road towards the baseball field Continue driving until you come to the field
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