All this mild winter weather has some catching baseball fever. That’s right, baseball.
Allen County Community College’s baseball team is holding its annual winter baseball school, Feb. 11-12.
The school is for boys and girls, ages 8 to 18. It has individual skill stations for hitting, pitching and catching with ACCC head baseball coach Val McLean and assistant coach Brett Lisher overseeing the instruction.
Current and former ACCC players help with instruction stressing fundamentals.
Enrollment fee is $100 per participant. Hitting and pitching instruction is both days. The catching school is Sunday only. Sessions are from 1-5 p.m. each day at the ACCC Activities Building (the Red Barn).
To enroll or find more information on the school go to Allen County’s website, allencc.ed, and click on athletics then on the baseball tab. Click on Winter Baseball School on the right-hand side of the page.
The hitting school features instruction on weight distribution, pre-stride and vision drills, bunting, line drive hitting and drills with a bat velocity machine. The pitching school has unique pitching drills to develop form, control, balance and velocity along with stations on slow motion drill, weighted ball drill, slide step, pick-off moves and weight training for pitching.
On Sunday in the catching school, fundamentals of catching will be presented. Part of the overall instruction includes sports psychology training.
Participants can enroll in a specific school or a combination school. In the combination school, they are given a choice on what they want to work on each day — pitching, hitting or catching.
Participants should bring tennis shoes, bat and glove.
