About Trevor

City Volunteer
Baseball Coach

The Coach

Hi, I'm Trevor.

I coach youth baseball for our city's parks and recreation program — and I built this curriculum because I watched too many good kids get bad habits from well-meaning coaches who were figuring it out as they went.

There's nothing wrong with that. Most of us who volunteer for Little League aren't former pros — we're parents, neighbors, and community members who care. But when every volunteer coach runs practice differently, kids end up with a patchy foundation that's harder to build on as they get older.

So I developed a simple, five-part hitting sequence: grip, ready stance, stride, contact, finish. Each piece connects to the next. Any volunteer coach can run it. And kids 8 and under can actually learn it — because it's built around how they think and move, not how a 14-year-old travel ball player does.

This site exists so coaches can access the plans, run the drills, and not need to track me down to ask what to do next.

"If every kid in our program can grip the bat correctly by age 8, we've done something that matters. The rest follows from there."

— Trevor

Coaching Philosophy

How This Program Thinks About Kids

Eight-year-olds aren't miniature high schoolers. This curriculum is built around how kids this age actually learn.

🧠 One Thing at a Time

Each lesson plan covers exactly one technique. Not three. Not five "key points." One. Kids this age can't hold multiple new concepts in a session — so we don't ask them to.

🎯 Cues Over Explanations

Kids respond to vivid, physical cues — not biomechanical explanations. "Knock on the door" works. "Align your metacarpals" does not. Every technique has a cue built in.

🏆 Win the Moment

At ages 5–8, the goal is building confidence and positive repetition. A kid who swings and misses but follows the process is doing it right. Celebrate the process.

🔁 Repetition Without Boredom

Muscle memory takes dozens of correct reps. The drills are structured to repeat the right movements without turning into a chore. Keep it moving, keep it fun.

👟 Sequence Is Everything

The five techniques run in order for a reason — each one sets up the next. A bad finish almost always traces back to a stance or stride problem. Fix upstream, the downstream fixes itself.

🤝 For Volunteer Coaches

You don't need a coaching background to use these plans. If you can read a checklist and stay calm, you're qualified. The curriculum does the heavy lifting.

The Program

A City Program Built on Volunteers

This curriculum runs through our city's parks and recreation youth baseball program. Every coach here is a volunteer — parents, older siblings, community members who showed up because kids needed someone to show up.

The whole point of building this site is to make those volunteers more effective without adding to their workload. The lesson plans are free. They're printable. There's no login, no waitlist, no form to fill out. Grab a plan and run a practice.

If you're a coach in the program and something here isn't working — a drill is too advanced, a plan doesn't fit your group, or you just have a question — that's what the contact form is for. Trevor still reads everything. He just doesn't want to be the bottleneck for your whole season.

City Parks & Recreation

Proudly part of the city's youth recreation program

Free for All Coaches

Every resource on this site is free, forever

Volunteer-Run

Real community members, not paid staff

Ages 8 & Under

Curriculum built for this specific age group