I was born and raised in Battle Creek, MI. What a great baseball town to grow up in. I graduated from Pennfield Dunlap High School and went on to Junior College then finally to Cal State Northridge University in Northridge, CA. where I played baseball for the nationally ranked Matadors under Head Coach Bill Kernen. I also studied Kinesiology and had a heavy emphasis on bio-mechanics.
I have always loved the swing and have been blessed to see things and know what is really going on when a hitter makes a good or bad one. In 1994 I tried out for an Independent professional baseball team and made it. A year later I was playing for the Prairie League Champion Regina Cyclones.
My big break came in 1996 when I got a call from the Chicago White Sox and was signed to a minor league contract. There I was around some of the best hitters in the game and picked their brains and listened to them talk about how they would "get that guy". Great men like Albert Belle, Harold Baines, Dallas Williams, Greg Richie, Chris Cron to name a few. I played for seven seasons until some serious injuries finally caught up to me and I realized that my body at that time just could not compete at that level anymore. So I just did what came very natural to me. I began to teach kids how to hit like they had never know before.
My biggest teacher and mentor over the years bar none is Perry Husband. He taught me a system to course correct swing and timing errors pitch by pitch. The foundational swing that I learned from him is the same one I still use today. He is by far in my eyes one of the best in the game and I am a better instructor and player because of him.
Today I teach and live in Henderson, NV and work with the best kids on the planet from the greater Las Vegas area. I still play and test my principles out on the playing field.
Baseball is my life and life is good!