Born in Northern Alberta, Canada in an area where there is very little baseball, his parents let him move to Lewiston, ID when he was in the 9th grade and live with a host family and play high school baseball. He then played at Spokane Falls Community College and  Whitworth University

After playing he coached at Spokane Falls CC for 4 years working with hitters and outfielders and  also serving as the S&C coach. During that time, he got His Master’s degree in Exercise Science from Eastern Washington University. Robin then got out of coaching and pursued a PhD and While working on it, he was Ed Cheff’s S&C coach at Lewis Clark State College. Robin completed his degree in 2002 and landed a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Kinesiology in cedar falls Iowa. After 18 years, he got back into coaching and became the volunteer assistant for the University of Northern Iowa softball team in the Fall of 2018 and then in January of 2019 he took a job at the university of Iowa,  where he started as the hitting coach and then became the pitching coach in the Fall of 2020.

 

On the show, we go over player assessments, developing motor learning plans, and blending the art and science of coaching.

 

Time stamps

3:50 - Player Assessments

16:00- Blending art and science of coaching

18:30- Motor Learning Plans for pitchers

25:27- Motor learning plans for hitters

33:30- Using in game data for pitchers

37:00- Using in game data for hitters

43:30- Gameplanning

45:00- Pre-pitch routines

46:45- Post Game reports

50:30- Simplifying data

55:30- Quick Hitters

 

Resources

Motus Sleeve

Trent Otis

Google sheets/Pivot tables

Functional Movement Screen

Frans Bosch

 

Contact

@Lunderton