Posts Categorized: Baseball

Importance of In-Season Strength Training for Athletes

Athletes are generally very motivated to succeed in their sport, putting in a tremendous amount of time and effort training in the weight room in preparation for their season. However when the season arrives, far too many athletes completely abandon their training. This begs the question, “Are you training for tryouts and training camp, or…

INTRODUCING BOB LISANTI AS DIRECTOR OF PLAYER DEVELOPMENT

Bo Jackson’s Elite Sports and Cangelosi Baseball are proud to announce that Bob Lisanti has been appointed Director of Baseball Player Development. In this new role Bob will provide leadership to all aspects of baseball instruction, research, and curriculum development. He will provide oversight to all baseball instructor hiring and training, as well as ongoing…

Resource Type: Baseball Published: April 20th, 2016

Coach’s Corner with Bob Lisanti – Tuesday, April 12th

Baseball is a game where we can feel good one-day, and horrible the next. As coaches, we need to look at drills, technique, mental approach as a daily process that will allow the player to feel good that day, and when they wake up the next day, they have to do it all over again. …

15 of 19 CAVE players increase arm velocity in just 4 weeks

The CAVE velocity & strength program will return tonight after having 2 weeks off for Christmas break. We have completed just 16/40 sessions and have already yielded 11/19 players with velocity increases of 2+ mph and 5/19 players with 5+ mph. With more than half of the program remaining, we look forward to seeing how much further…

Fall Back into Good Habits

Welcome back to all of our Cangelosi Fall League players!! It’s a new season, which means it is time to set new personal and team goals. Anybody can sit down and write out goals that they want to set, but it takes handwork, determination, and great leadership skills to actually achieve them individually and as…

G.M.A.C. Foundation Summer Baseball Camp July 14th-15th

Bo Jackson’s Give Me A Chance Foundation held a 2 day baseball camp for kids of ages 8-13. The kids were split up into teams and went to separate stations for the duration of the camp. The stations included were pitching, batting, fielding, and over all teamwork and team skills. At the end of the…

Learn about the CAVE Velocity program with Mike Stawksi

Join our lead pitching coach, Mike Stawski, at the dome this Monday, November 3rd from 7:00-8:00p to talk about how you can add mph to your fastball. Coach Stawski is the current pitching coach at Concordia University as well as the strength and conditioning coordinator. The CAVE Velocity & Strength program will begin on Wednesday, November…

Mike Matheny Letter To Parents

Mike Matheny Letter To Parents Message from Kevin Seitzer – Mike Matheny is the new St. Louis Cardinals Manager.  Mike lived with me in Milwaukee his rookie year.  He’s one of the most respected, wonderful people you will ever be around.  Mike coached his kids after retirement and this is a letter to the parents on…

Resource Type: Baseball Published: October 8th, 2014

Cangelosi 2015-Black finish 2nd at Perfect Game’s Kernels Tournament and has 17 players named to All-Tourney Team

This past weekend Cangelosi Baseball sent 4 teams to the prestigious Kernels Tournament in Cedar Rapids, IA powered by Perfect Game USA. Cangelosi 2015’s Black, led by Head Coach Kellen Kmiciek, finished up 2nd out of 48 teams. They lost to the Reds Midwest Scout Team 11-6 in a well fought game that needed extra frames….