Tiffin Columbian High School
Tiffin Columbian High School is the high school in my home town. Its the same school that I spent the four years of my high school career and the same school that I played baseball at for four years. The baseball coach there is Curt Mellott and He has been coaching there and teaching there since 2001.
Tiffin Columbian Baseball
Tiffin Columbian Baseball is a program that I hold very dear to my heart. I spent hundred of hours working towards a goal when I was in high school of making the varsity team. Through hard work and dedication and the instruction of Curt Mellott and the rest of the coaching staff I was able to realize that goal. In the fall of 2007 I started my journey to give back to the program that has given me so much. I can't even begin to count the hundreds of hours I've spent over the last five years volunteering as a coach. I had such a great experience coaching that I can't believe that it's been five years since I started.
In the fall of 2007, a couple months after I returned from basic training, I approached Curt at a fall workout and asked if they needed any help coaching that year. I started showing up to fall workouts and eventually he found a spot for me to help out. My first year was definitely a learning experience, to be honest I'm still learning as I continue today. Bu the first couple years were definitely the years that I took in the most. The first year I was an assistant Junior Varsity coach, I spent all but one of my years as an assistant JV coach. However, because the teams were small and the coaching staff were so close knit aside from game days we all worked together to build the program.
Every January we attended the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association's Baseball Clinic. This was one of my most favorite experiences while coaching baseball. Don't ask me to choose my favorite aspect of coaching, if I had to choose I think I would say that coaching is my favorite part of coaching. The coaches clinic is an awesome experience, you get to meet with the coaches who have had many years of great successes, including developing major league players and winning state championships. You also get to listen to speakers who have had great successes within baseball itself. Just last year I sat in on a session with one of the Cleveland Indians infield coaches, and one year I met with the strength and conditioning coach for the New York Yankees. That was an amazing experience in itself and that's just the beginning of what coaching has given me.
Through coaching I have not only bettered myself but I have also been able to better my players and the program itself. Every year we sit down at the coaches clinic and begin to strategize for the upcoming season. These strategy sessions would include little tweaks to our plan to completely revamping our off season workout plan to better accommodate differing strength and conditioning programs. This was an very humbling process because I got to see the program develop from where we started to what it is today. And I got to put my hand in on the program and help develop the players.
This was another great aspect to coaching, seeing the player grow up. I wasn't sure how I would like dealing with high school students at first but in the end it is one of my greatest memories. Seeing the players have success because of what you have guided them to do is one of the most rewarding feelings I've experienced. To this day I still interact with my players who have graduated and some of them have become good friends. All in all coaching was not only an experience in which I helped to better some youth in the community I think that it is a large part of what made me the person I am today. It provided experiences, opportunities and leadership for me in which I would never have the opportunity to do.
In the fall of 2007, a couple months after I returned from basic training, I approached Curt at a fall workout and asked if they needed any help coaching that year. I started showing up to fall workouts and eventually he found a spot for me to help out. My first year was definitely a learning experience, to be honest I'm still learning as I continue today. Bu the first couple years were definitely the years that I took in the most. The first year I was an assistant Junior Varsity coach, I spent all but one of my years as an assistant JV coach. However, because the teams were small and the coaching staff were so close knit aside from game days we all worked together to build the program.
Every January we attended the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association's Baseball Clinic. This was one of my most favorite experiences while coaching baseball. Don't ask me to choose my favorite aspect of coaching, if I had to choose I think I would say that coaching is my favorite part of coaching. The coaches clinic is an awesome experience, you get to meet with the coaches who have had many years of great successes, including developing major league players and winning state championships. You also get to listen to speakers who have had great successes within baseball itself. Just last year I sat in on a session with one of the Cleveland Indians infield coaches, and one year I met with the strength and conditioning coach for the New York Yankees. That was an amazing experience in itself and that's just the beginning of what coaching has given me.
Through coaching I have not only bettered myself but I have also been able to better my players and the program itself. Every year we sit down at the coaches clinic and begin to strategize for the upcoming season. These strategy sessions would include little tweaks to our plan to completely revamping our off season workout plan to better accommodate differing strength and conditioning programs. This was an very humbling process because I got to see the program develop from where we started to what it is today. And I got to put my hand in on the program and help develop the players.
This was another great aspect to coaching, seeing the player grow up. I wasn't sure how I would like dealing with high school students at first but in the end it is one of my greatest memories. Seeing the players have success because of what you have guided them to do is one of the most rewarding feelings I've experienced. To this day I still interact with my players who have graduated and some of them have become good friends. All in all coaching was not only an experience in which I helped to better some youth in the community I think that it is a large part of what made me the person I am today. It provided experiences, opportunities and leadership for me in which I would never have the opportunity to do.
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