2012 Portland Youth Coaches’ Clinic

Fourth Annual Youth Coaches’ Clinic

We are very excited to Co-Host our fourth annual youth coaches’ clinic with N.W. Star Acad­emy! There is sim­ply noth­ing more impor­tant than enhanc­ing the exper­tise of our youth base­ball coaches.

Each year we get feed­back to insure that all of these clin­ics will con­tinue to help and inspire its atten­dees. Our 2011 Speaker, Coach Dave Gasser, was so well received that we have asked him back to present a brand new pro­gram! We antic­i­pate a great day and your con­tin­ued enthu­si­asm for this event. We thank Jerry Gatto and N.W. Star Pro­duc­tions for Co– Host­ing this event.

Date: Jan­u­ary 15th, 2012
Loca­tion: Embassy Suites, Port­land Air­port
7900 NE 82nd Avenue, Port­land, Ore­gon
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Pre­reg­is­tra­tion is Highly Encour­aged
Please come early — Arriv­ing no later than 12:30 pm

Indi­vid­ual Coaches ($15 each)
League-Affiliated Coaches ($50 for entire league)

Who Can Attend?
ALL youth baseball/softball coaches through­out Ore­gon & Washington!

2012 Port­land Youth Coaches’ Clinic Agenda

After­noon Youth Coaches’ Ses­sion
1:00–1:15pm Coaches Wel­come and intro­duc­tion of Coach Gasser, Oregon’s only Five-Time State Cham­pion
Keenan and Ben Long­cor, Founders, Friends of Baseball

Ses­sions with Dave Gasser

Ses­sion 1: Chore­o­graph­ing Defen­sive and Offen­sive Base­ball
Ses­sion 2: “The Best Drills I’ve Seen for Defense and Offense
Ses­sion 3: Prac­tice Orga­ni­za­tion and What Coaches Need to Know
Ses­sion 4: Q & A Ses­sion; What has chal­lenged your team or league?

Dave Gasser’s Keys

From those who attended last year, “This Clinic Sim­ply Can’t be missed!”

Reg­is­tra­tion Now at the Door

Coaches and Leagues are now wel­come to reg­is­ter for this clinic on Jan­u­ary 15th ~ 12:00 P.M at the door.  We still have seats avail­able, admis­sion $15 per attendee.  If we can be of assis­tance please con­tact Keenan@friendsofbaseball.org.

A small par­tic­i­pa­tion fee has been estab­lished in order to pro­vide refresh­ments and a few extras. We are very sen­si­tive to these costs, with FOB’s spon­sor­ship keep­ing them to a min­i­mum. The Pre­reg­is­tra­tion fee of $15 sin­gle coach or $50 per entire league cov­ers the cost of all atten­dees from your orga­ni­za­tion. Last year one league sent nearly 30 coaches, which made their league reg­is­tra­tion amaz­ingly rea­son­able. We are expand­ing our venue for 2012, but seat­ing is limited.

PLEASE NOTE: As of Jan­u­ary 11th, reg­is­tra­tions for the 2012 clinic will now only be taken at the door.

We are hope­ful that a league admin­is­tra­tor can use their credit card for this online reg­is­tra­tion. Pay­ments can also be made by check, just choose that option on the online form.

Bet­ter yet … Why not ask a sup­porter of your league to donate this as an oppor­tu­nity to give back to “Their” coaches, kids and league? For a $50 dona­tion all the coaches in your league can receive a full schol­ar­ship and this con­trib­u­tor gets to make an impor­tant invest­ment for the 2012 season!

Addi­tion­ally, Jerry Gatto  has invited you to attend his entire week­end con­fer­ence for half price (just $99, addi­tional atten­dees from the same orga­ni­za­tion are $90). The con­fer­ence includes: detailed coaches’ inter­ac­tions, hosted recep­tions and Walk of Cham­pi­ons luncheon.Any addi­tional atten­dees from the same orga­ni­za­tion is $90). To reg­is­ter or to find out more about the entire week­end please con­tact: gattonws@comcast.net and ref­er­ence Friends of Base­ball on the inquiry. For other inquiries related to the after­noon event please email: info@friendsofbaseball.org

We look for­ward to reunit­ing with the many coaches from the 2011 event and meet­ing many more new friends.