Leland Baseball

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Leland Baseball

• All stakeholders pulling in the same direction.

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A Great Tradition

• 1985 first league championship

• 1989 first CCS Championship

• 1989 ranked 18 Nationally, 3 in state

• 1996 second CCS Championship, and 9th consecutive
  CCS appearance

• 1996 pre-season ranked 10 Nationally

• 1997 finalist CCS Championship

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A Great Tradition cont

• 1995 establish freshmen program first in the Mt
  Hamilton league

• Host of the West Coast Classic, national baseball
  tournament, established 1999

• Participants in the Junior Olympic program in
  Tucson AZ 1999, and 2000

• CCS Play-offs 2002

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Paperwork requirements

• Physical and Insurance

• Baseball Contract

• Consent to treat

• Eligibility

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Team Rules and Procedures

• Be on time everyday.

• Practice and play with maximum effort.

• Support your teammates

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Communication Procedures

• What you intend to communicate/say
• What actually comes out of your mouth
• What the person hears
• All 3 must be the same to truly communicate

• Parent/Coach/Player communications
• Step 1 - Player meets directly with coach
• Step 2 Parent, Coach and Player meet together.

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Communication Options

• Email Scot_Gillis_at_sjusd.org
• Web page www.sjusd.k12.ca.us/sites.high/Leland/Ba
  seball/baseball.html

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5 Keys to a successful season

• Knowledge
• Tools
• Environment
• Motivation
• Involvement

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Knowledge

• Responsibility Coaches
• It is the coaches job to teach your son the
  skills necessary to successfully compete at the
  high school level in baseball.

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Tools

• Responsibility Parents
• Tools necessary glove, bat, baseball clothing,
  and baseball equipment we use to practice
• (pitching machines, batting cages, etc)

The tools are the things which give us an
advantage over our competitors
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Environment

• Responsibility School District
• baseball field and backstop

Grounds keeper mow, aerate, fertilize, weed, etc
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Motivation

• Responsibility players

This goes to attitude. The players must have the
desire to get better.
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Involvement

• Responsibility Everyone

• Helping at games in the snack-shack or on the
  scoreboard.
• Volunteering for Stanford games, dinners out,
  carwashes, etc
• Hosting the team for a dinner.
• Supporting our efforts by attending games, and
  cheering
• on all players
• Helping re-stock snack-shack
• Assisting with transportation, selling of
  apparel, etc

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Facility Renovation Project

• Added since 1986
• Cement dug-outs
• 2 batting cages with cement floors, and roofs
• New scoreboard
• New fencing throughout the facility
• New snack-shack
• Asphalt
• New backstop fencing
• New portable batting cage
• Netting, drill aids, etc

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Facility Renovation Project Cont

• Added since 2000
• Fully enclosed fencing of the field
• Yellow fence cap

Over 75,000 dollars in improvements in the last
7 years.
Umpires association rated Leland one of the top 3
fields in Bay Area. They are conducting their
clinic here Feb 1,2
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What we provide for you

• Respond to all professional teams who send us
  letters
• Respond to all colleges who send us letters
• Provide a web page for parents/players with
  schedules, photos, boxscores, etc

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What we provide for you

• Plan and deliver practice on a daily basis from
  Jan until late May
• 2.5 hrs a day for 5 months
• ( 5 month long baseball camp)
• Teach your son all the skills necessary to play
  at the high school level
• Access to batting cages, and training devices on
  a daily basis.

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What we provide for you

• Access to all equipment necessary to develop
  skills baseballs, field use, simulations,
  practices, etc

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What we provide for you

• Games
• 24 games and a scrimmage
• Opportunity for players to represent their
  school - Leland
• PE credit for playing
• Transcript for college extra curricular
  activity

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What we provide for you

• Health
• Child obesity is increasing at an alarming rate.
  1 in 3 teenagers is considered out of
  shape/overweight
• Only 13 of current H.S. students can pass the
  national standard for physical fitness
• On-set of diabetes in children has increased 68
  in the last 10 years
• We value Healthy body, Healthy mind

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What we provide for you

• Life Skills
• Competition, cooperation, team work, goal
  setting, dealing with adversity, time management,
  etc, etc, etc
• We need to acknowledge the classroom that is the
  court, the pool, and the field

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What the school provides

• Pay for the 2 coaches spots
• (Head Varsity, Head F/S)
• Umpires for Varsity and F/S games

Budget cuts have eliminated every other item
traditionally provided.
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Parent responsibilities-What we need from you

• Contributions of funds to pay for the costs of
  providing a program.
• Contribution of services or goods
• Contribution of time

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Program fixed costs

• All other coaches need to be paid from
  fundraising activities.

• District pay scale for coaches
• 1st year head coach - 1467
• 1st year assistant - 1467
• These are extra duty pay and get taxed at the
  maximum level (40)

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Program fixed costs

• 2 Varsity Asst, 1 F/S Asst, 1 Freshmen
• 1467 x 4 5868

• This is our 1 priority. This must be raised
  first, before addressing other program/facility
  improvements

• Only other option is to not have quality
  coaching, not have a freshmen program, and be an
  average baseball program. Im not willing to do
  that.
• Tournament fee Varsity 75 each

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Program fixed costs

• Player equipment costs
• Spikes Puma Deal via Barry Zito
• Spikes - 65 Turf- 35 T-Shirt - 10

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Program fixed costs

• Player equipment costs
• Hat

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How do we go about raising funds

• Dinner/presentation at Leland.

• Stanford basketball games

• Cheveys night

• Baseball Camp
• (USA Baseball Development Camp)

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How do we go about raising funds

• Snack-shack at games

• E-script

• Parent donations
• Time snack-shack, announcing of games,
  scoreboard, participate in fundraising
  activities, transportation, etc

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How do we go about raising funds

• Parent donations
• Our goal 300 per family

• Contribution of services/particular item.
• Direct your donation to a specific need i.e.
  batting machine

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Program fixed costs

• Baseballs
• Game Balls and Practice Balls (1200)

• Uniform Replacement
• One net set this year, but other are 5-6 years
  old (Almaden Womens Club - 1300 toward new
  Varsity uniforms)

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Program fixed costs

• Field/game safety items
• Helmets, bases, protective screens,
• Rope/ties for batting cage, wheel barrel, rakes,
  hoses, drag, etc etc etc

• Trainer
• 275 a year (per sport) to provide a trainer

• Lawn Mower and Paint
• 500 per sport for the lawn mower, 250 per sport
  for paint

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Program improvement items

• Items that improve our ability to conduct
  practice, training, and evaluation of players
• Pitching machines, batting cages, batting cage
  balls, hitting devices, drill stations, etc

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Master Pitching Machine 2100
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Short-Stroke Trainer 399
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Facility enhancement ideas

• Items which improve the experience for the fans
  and players
• Sound system for announcing during the game,
  scoreboard, grandstands for fans comfort, brick
  backstop, etc

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Sound System for music and player
announcement 2000
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Facility Renovation Project Cont

• Hopeful Additions for the Year 2003
• Uniforms
• Current Varsity Grey- Purchased in 1998
• Current Varsity Pinstripe Purchased in 1995
• Current F/S Pinstripe 1994
• Grey- 1983 (no, this is not a joke)
• Freshmen Mesh 1995

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Best Deal in Town

• Tuition costs at local schools.

• Valley Christian - 8382/yr Spec Ed add 7667
• Bellarmine - 8500/yr
• Mitty 8170/yr
• Leland No tuition

Seems to be a feeling that if you pay a large
amount of money for something, you value it
more. This applies to school, to products, and
to services (Baseball lessons)
5.2 Billion cut in education funding this year
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Best Deal in Town
Money raised goes directly to providing a quality
program for your son
Coaching Baseball facilities Games Health and
Fitness Life lessons.
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Best Deal in Town

• Free membership at 24HR fitness
• Normal cost - Enrollment fee 179
• Processing fee 79
• 1st month 40
• Last month 40

339 to get the same fitness opportunity
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Best Deal in Town

• Local baseball camps

• Santa Clara University 275 - 16 hours
• San Jose State - 175 11 hours
• HWOB - 90 10 hours (hitting)
• All quality opportunities
• Leland 300 2.5 hours X 100 days (2500 hrs)

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Parent/Booster Club representative