Marty Sutherland is the Assistant coach at the University of Iowa, a Division I program in the Big 10 conference. He played the first two years of his collegiate baseball career from 1999-2000 at Kirkwood Community College, a Junior college in Iowa. He then finished his career at Northern Iowa from 2001-2002. Later, in 2003 he began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Wofford College. Than from 2004-2009 he went back to the University of Northern Iowa and was an assistant coach, but in 2009 UNI dropped their baseball program. From there Coach Sutherland went to the High School level and coached at Cascade High School as well as worked at Bases Loaded Academy. He then went back to the collegiate level in 2013 and was the recruiting coordinator for the University of Iowa up until 2017 when he was promoted to Associate Head Coach, where he still remains.
In this episode, we start off talking about his relationship with Coach Heller, the Head coach for the University of Iowa baseball team, as well as his time playing for and coaching alongside him. We then dive into how Coach Sutherland plans his daily hitting plans and the teams use of technology during practice.
We also talk thoroughly about the science of launch angle a new topic to the baseball world. As well as the art of squaring the ball up and the importance behind it. If you want to hear and learn from an Assistant coach at the highest level of collegiate baseball than listen to this conversation between Coach Marty Sutherland and I.
