Younce Notes
Bio
- collegiate playing career at the US Naval Academy and Old Dominion University
- involved with baseball for over 25 years.
- Assistant Coach at Greenbrier Christian Academy (VA)
- Under 500 before coming on staff
- 2019 - lost in state semi
- 2020 - covid
- 2021 - D2 state champs
- Canes Baseball hitting and INF coach for the 14 National team.
- Coached at every level
- Former Scouting director for the organization
- Associate Scout with the Philadelphia Phillies.
- created Coastal Va Baseball
Notes
- Survey at the end of fall to discuss role and communicate expectations
- Want guys moving faster during practice
- The standard is the standard! It doesn’t matter what jersey I am wearing
- Kids have to know the orders -
- High school - we still want the kids the win no matter if they play the next level or not
- Travel - we still have a standard and kids can use to help speed up their progression
- Find multiple ways to say things to help with multiple kids
- It's a hard conversation to tell someone they are not meeting the standard, and most time the kids know it
- Has not changed that coaches want to see them
- Rise in the value of college camps
- The player themselves gets them recruited
- Coach gives an honest assessment that is credible
- My job is to gives honest feedback/criticism
- Leave it better than you found it
- Point out the hop where the last hop would land
- Get the right hop as an infielder
- Teach them how to get the right
- Defensive efficiency chart - lanes and speeds
- Swing decision chart
- Not a finished product, be a constant learner
- Be who you are and give yourself an honest assessment of where you are
- Twitter @robyounce DM’s are open
- robyounce@gmail.com
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