Better Men, Better Ballplayers

127 - Mark Gibbs: St John’s College HS (D.C.)

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Mark Gibbs; St Johns DC

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    BIO

    • HC of St Johns DC
  • 339–90–1 Overall Record, .788 Winning Percentage in 17 years
  • 13, 20-win seasons
  • 6 of the seasons St Johns has been nationally ranked
  • Before their 2008 season, St. John’s was on the cover of Baseball America, the first team from the mid-Atlantic to ever be profiled in the preview issue. 
  • Gibbs has sent 124 players into college baseball from St Johns
  • 17 players who were drafted by or signed to free agent contracts with professional teams. 
  • The Cadets have won or tied for 1 regular season conference titles (2007, 2010, 2012–19, 2021), 
  • 8 WCAC tournament titles (2011, 2014–19) 
  • 3 DCSAA titles (2014, 2019, 2021). 
  • Many Coach of the year awards (Washington Post, WCAC, USA Today, DCSAA)

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    NOTES

    • The experience that I feel is best for kids and the reality it is, we need to find what’s best for us
  • Staying together in the summer and fall has brought us bigger things that baseball
  • Outsourced a strength coach (sports performance coach)
  •  The HC needs to monitor it all. 
  • Bring in people that the HC can trust and let them work
  • A lot of what you are dealing with is not on the field
  • If you have good people and you trust them that is the best
  • Got to have good players and guys that are willing to work
  • The guy was just a worker! His work ethic stood out
  • They were very prepared in the whole system that prepared them for college
  • Pitching, defense and baserunning is what you do to win games
  • We prioritize pitching, not just fit it into practice
  • In the live stuff we do, that is the most live baserunning situations we can get
  • Play more live! Use the baserunners when pitching on mound
  • Using their eyes to run the bases
  • Base stealing and base running are taught in two different segments
  • Year to year we focus on certain things more than others depending on your team
  • You have to have guys that can do it (vault stealing/ new school leads)
  • You have to have the time to teach it and put it into your program.
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