Backyard Hackers Baseball Instructors
John HEndrickJohn Hendrick currently coaches everyone and everything -- it changes too quickly to update here, because he goes where his communities need him. He has over 30 years of baseball/softball training experience, and has worked with all ages and skill levels from teeballers to future and past pros (hitters and pitchers). He has 22 years of teaching in schools, with a long history of working with kids of all ages.
John has several accolades as a player including being a 2-time NEWBL MVP, 2-time State NBC MVP, was on the #1 ranked team in the country all 4 years of college while at UW-Oshkosk and Carthage. He was a member of the 1996 HS State Championship team and all-state team. John designs and implements most of our programs, usually taking the lead with baseball pitchers. He is the only local, certified Driveline Youth Development Coach. |
Courtney WatkinsCourtney is a current varsity softball coach, and is regarded as one of the best coaches in the area. He connects with teeballers, high schoolers and everyone in between.
One of the most fearsome hitters in Wisconsin, Courtney has a NEWBL MVP award and a handful of 1st Team Outfielder accolades to go with it. He played 2 years at MATC. Courtney coaches everything for us, but is best known for his ability to work with outfielders and hitters. |
Trent WhitcombTrent can do it all. He's the current head baseball coach at Lawrence University. He plays almost every position well (we've never seen him catch), can bat lead-off or in the middle of the order, drag bunt, steal bases or throw guys out.
Trent has a NEWBL batting title and played at Eastern Illionois and UW-Oshkosh. We'll have him doing a little bit of everything too, but mostly we'll be using his Kinesiology background to run most of our strength and agility. (See, he can do it all!) |
Heidi MasseHeidi is an incredible leader, and someone that young people naturally look up to. She plays a mean catcher and hits with the best of 'em.
She played at St. Thomas (who is so good they've been forced into Div I) for 4 years, and made it to State twice with Appleton East as a player. She excelled at catcher and Heidi was also recognized as a 2x all-state selection. Heidi shares our passion to give back to our sports, expand and mentor kids and coaches, as well as embracing the process. Like the rest of us, Coach Masse does a little bit of everything, but we'll use her catching background to help kids become field sargeants. |