I got to meet Tracy in January at the World Baseball Coaches Convention and found him to be as down to early as they come, especially for a power 4 head coach! In this podcast we cover his playing days, coaching journey, leadership style, and recruiting process. Click below for the video. Here for the audio . SHOW NOTES: Tracy Smith is the Head Baseball Coach at the University of Michigan Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: CONTACT COACH MAZZONI: Feedback – g

Great story of Jake Fishman....two way player at Union College. Make it to the big leagues with the Marlins. Created PitchLab, basically a Trackman for the phone. Audio here. Video below. SHOW NOTES: Jake Fishman is the founder of PitchLab Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: CONTACT COACH MAZZONI: Feedback – give feedback to Wayne: wayne@waynemazzoni.com Recruiting Survey – fill out the survey at:  https://forms.gle/2WTbk9DtZ9WSKs5G8 Other – other ways to ge

The way things usually shake out, this podcast most often gets east coast guests. Not this episode! Tyler LaTorre grew up, went to college, played professionally, and coached in college almost exclusively in California. In this podcast we cover; The great weather at Pepperdine. The campus. His walk on experience at UC Davis. Playing with the SF Giants 9 years, Brewers for 1. Playing for Team Italy. Coaching at San Francisco State, San Jose State, Sacremento State. Taking

Dr. Josh Heenan is the founder and owner of Advanced Therapy and Performance and is well known in the baseball strength training community. In fact, he was the first ever guest on this podcast. Click here . On November 25, 2025 he posted a very informative message on his instagram account that had a lot of information. Here is a link to that post . Click the video below or the audio here to listen to us discuss this post. SHOW NOTES: Dr. Josh Heenan is the founder/owner

Born in Alabama, played college baseball at Vanderbilt, coached 6 years at Samford University before coming to Davidson as an assistant before taking over in 2018, lots to learn from this very bright college coach. See video below. Click here for audio only. Show Notes: Rucker Taylor is the Head Baseball Coach at Davidson College. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: CONTACT COACH MAZZONI: Feedback – give feedback to Wayne: wayne@waynemazzoni.com Recruiting Sur

Energy. That's what you feel when you watch and listen to Coach Chris Marx. Growing up with 3 older brothers that played baseball, and were bigger than you, turns you into a scrapper. We all know that high motor infielder who plays really hard. Well, that Chris Marx, head coach at Campbell University. Topics we covered: Playing for and coaching with Justin Haire, now head coach at Ohio State. How he has coached both hitters and pitchers. Coach at Southern Indiana, Arka

Raised in Charlotte and now the head coach at Charlotte is a rare experience in college baseball. Robert Woodard talks about growing up loving baseball, basketball, and chess! He talked about going to prospect camps and eventually getting an offer from UNC. During this career he was drafted twice and went to two college world series. He also played three summers in the cape. He played three years of minor league baseball with the San Diego Padres. After college he coached

With over 800! wins as a college head baseball coach, Jon Sjogren has a lot of life lessons to pass on. He is also a heck of a guy as you can hear when he points out that he has a lot of losses to go along with those wins. How he started his coaching career is worth your time alone to listen to. To see where college baseball was and is now through his eyes is amazing. For the audio click here . Video is below. SHOW NOTES: Jon Sjogren is the Head Baseball Coach at Rollin

Pretty cool for AJ Miller. Played at Lafayette and was the 2011 Patriot League Player Of The Year. After some time in the business world, he coached for several years at Lehigh before taking at his alma matter. He talks about his background, the college, his team in year 4 of his tenure, and what it takes to be good in college baseball. Click below for the video and here for the audio. SHOW NOTES AJ Miller is the Head Baseball Coach at Lafayette College. Thank you for lis

Lots to learn from the recent podcast with John Muller, now in his third season at Union College. We covered John's background playing baseball and other sports in Mahopac, NY. How one chemistry class caused him to be D1 ineligible. His career at St. Thomas Aquinas College. Becoming a two-way in college. Signing with the Chicago Cubs. Coaching at STAC while building his lesson and travel business. Taking over at College of Mt. Saint Vincent. Like at Union College entering his

Coach Hanson enters his 20th year as the head coach at Dickinson. He played football and baseball at Middlebury College. He started his career in Baseball Operations at Stanford University. He then coached at Davidson for two seasons. He took over the program at Dickinson at the age of 25 and he has been there since, entering his 20th season. For audio click here . Video click below. SHOW NOTES Craig Hanson is the head baseball coach at Dickinson College. Thank you for li

Besides covering Matt's playing and coaching background we really got into detail on Swarthmore, baseball at that high academic D3 level, the admissions and recruiting process. For the audio click here . For the video click below. Show notes are below the video. SHOW NOTES Matt Midkiff is the head baseball coach at Swarthmore College. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: CONTACT COACH MAZZONI: Feedback – give feedback to Wayne: wayne@waynemazzoni.com Recruiti

Coach Kav is the first guest on the podcast that I actually coached with. I can tell you first hand what a smart and hard working guy he is. On this podcast we discussed his background as an athlete, his recruitment to Kenyon, and his coaching career that has spanned 7 schools. His transition to pitching coach. His scouting and recruiting styles. Click here for the audio . Below for video. SHOW NOTES: Tyler Kavanaugh is the Associate Head Baseball Coach at George Washin

-Hard to imagine this guy can get to sleep at night! Energy! -Joey played his college baseball at Charlotte and was drafted in the 25th round by the Orioles. -After spending 11 years in the minors he started to coach at the high school level. -He then spent 7 years at Wake Forest. -He has been the head coach at High Point since 2021. -He has three sons, one plays at High Point, one was a first round draft pick last year. Click here for the audio version. Below for th

The podcast with Bill Cilento covered the following topics: Being a three sport athlete in high school. The path that led him to go to Siena. Starting in accounting and hating it. Taking a coaching job at Siena. Lessons learned from Coach Rossi at Siena. Going with Tom Walter to University of New Orleans, right before Hurricane Katrina. Working at Brown for 3 seasons. Coming to Wake Forest with Coach Walter how they share core beliefs. We covered his coaching style, wh

Tad Skelley played at Wheaton, went on to work in Baseball Operations at the University of Notre Dame and then to coach at Northwestern. After a year in scouting with the Toronto Blue Jays he coached at Colby College and then took over the program at Gordon College. In 2023 he became the Head Coach at Vassar College. We covered a lot about coaching, recruiting, and playing in a high academic D3 environment. For the video click below. For the audio click here . Show Note

Ty Blankeyer is the son of a legendary grandfather and father. His grandfather Mike Sheppard was the longtime coach at Seton Hall and his Dad Ed Blankmeyer was the longtime coach at St. John's. After playing at St. John's and getting drafted, Ty began scouting for the Milwaukee Brewers. He then began his college coaching career at Wake Forest. From there he went to Duke before moving on to Vanderbilt. Click below for video. Here for audio . Show notes below. Ty Blankm

I first met Mark Calvi in 1992! I had just moved to Florida to start my graduate school at St. Thomas University in Miami and starting my first coaching job at Nova Southeastern University. Mark had graduated from Nova and was with the Seattle Mariners minor leagues. After his playing career he went on to scout before getting into coaching. He spent 11 years at FIU, 6 at South Carolina (where he won a National Championship!), and has been at University of South Alabama sin

Jim Martin is from Norwood, MA and attended St. John's University. He has since coached at St. Anselm, Southern CT State U, Merrimack, URI, and joined Stony Brook as an assistant. He was promoted to Associate Head Coach and then named Head Coach at long time coach Matt Senk retired after last season. Many in the coaching/baseball community think Jim is a baseball savant! If you go back to my podcast with Nick Barese, Head Coach at UMASS Lowell you will hear this exact sta

From his youth in Vermont to playing football and baseball at Maine, Jack Leggett has been a force to be reckoned with. He started his coaching career as the Club Baseball Coach at Vermont before it went varsity. Then After 6 years there build Western Carolina into a powerhouse. In 1991 he moved to Clemson as an assistant then took over as head coach from 1993-2015. Click the below to see the video and here to listen to the audio.