BASEBALL & SOFTBALL PERFORMANCE PROGRAMS
Let us be your one-stop-shop to enhance your baseball & softball performance through a comprehensive strength and conditioning program, arm care program, and skill coaching from our elite team.
Champion’s Baseball & Softball Performance Program has everything you need to enhance your performance and reduce the risk of injury.
THE 3 COMPONENTS OF ELITE PERFORMANCE
ARM CARE & THROWING PROGRAM
All athletes start off with a 1-on-1 physical therapy evaluation to assess baseline strength and locate any weaknesses. The body develops the force when throwing, but the arm must control the force. A solid arm care and throwing program is the foundation of every Major League Baseball player’s routine, yet often ignored in younger athletes.
STRENGTH & CONDITIONING
Not every strength program is optimal for getting the most out of baseball players. You’ll meet 1-on-1 with a strength coach to perform an assessment and build a program based on your unique needs and goals. By focusing on developing complete athleticism, lower body strength, and linear and rotational power, you can easily enhance your velocity and hitting performance.
HITTING & PITCHING MECHANICS
Notice how hitting and pitching are last? Without the two buckets above in place, it won’t matter how good your mechanics are or what program you follow. But once you have a solid foundation in place, your body will get even more out of working with a coach to enhance your sport-specific skill. Whether you’re looking to learn sound fundamental mechanics, enhance your pitching or hitting velocity, or learn more advanced pitch-design concepts, our coaching staff can help.
THE COMPLETE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
Most athletes pick one, maybe two, of these buckets to focus on, but in order to really take it to the next level, you must focus on all three. This is the secret to developing elite performance and exactly what the Big Leaguers we work with do to prepare themselves for each season. Champion makes it easy by having access to all three areas in-house.
MEET OUR BASEBALL & SOFTBALL COACHES
SCOTT SHUMAN
Lead Pitching Instructor
Scott was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays out of Auburn University, where he graduated with a degree in Physical Health & Activity. He spent four seasons as a top prospect in the Tampa Bay before spending time in the San Francisco Giants and Toronto Blue Jays systems. During his time in those organizations, throwing in excess of 100 mph, Scott averaged better than 14 strikeouts per nine innings of work.
Over Scotts 14 year professional baseball career he held Atlantic League career marks for earned run average (2.23) and strikeouts per innings pitched (12.4) among pitchers with 200+ career innings in the circuit. He also accrued international experience, having pitched in Mexico, Venezuela and Australia during his 14-year career.
Scott completed an internship with Cressey Sports Performance where he learned to evaluate athletes through an assessment of body mechanics. He then developed programs off those assessments to coach athletes through the proper regimens and incorporate that information into pitching workouts.
Scott is passionate about giving athletes the opportunity to maximize their God given potential on the diamond. With the education, training and playing for most of his life, Scott is ready to pass his knowledge onto the next generation to better help athletes achieve their dreams and goals.
JEFF COSTELLO
Lead Hitting Instructor
Jeff is an Outfielder from Lexington, MA who is coming off of playing professional baseball in the Czech Extraleague in Europe. Prior to that, Jeff attended Northeastern University where he was twice named to the All-CAA second team. He started 176 games for the Huskies and spent 2 summers in the Cape Cod Baseball League (Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox ’19 & Orleans Firebirds ’21).
Prior to Northeastern, Jeff reclassified from Lexington High School to attend Buckingham Browne & Nichols where he played both football and baseball. He was a two-time ISL and NEPSAC MVP as the starting QB and was the 2016 ISL MVP as an outfielder and pitcher and finished with a batting average of .587. He finished his high school football career with 143 total touchdowns and was a member of the 2016 Ken O’Keefe Bowl championship team.
Jeff is passionate about teaching the foundations as well as advanced concepts for hitting. Jeff has numerous years of experience teaching the art of hitting to baseball players of all levels.
SAL FRELICK
Hitting Coach
Sal Frelick is a Major League Baseball player from Lexington, MA. Sal was drafted in the first round by the Milwaukee Brewers in 2021 and has quickly moved up the ranks to play in the big leagues. Sal attended Boston College where his freshman year he was named Freshman All-American and NEIBA Rookie of the Year. Prior to attending BC, Sal was a 3 sport athlete for Lexington High School and earned Massachusetts Gatorate Player of the Year in Football. Along with all the sporting success, Sal has also completed his undergraduate degree from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
DAN METZDORF
Pitching Coach
Dan Metzdorf is a former Pitcher in the Chicago White Sox organization. He grew up in Burlington, MA and was a member of the Division 2 Championship team at Burlington High School before transferring to Buckingham Browne & Nichols where he helped BBN capture the league title in 2015 and was named the ISL Pitcher of the Year. Dan went on to pitch for Boston College where he was a 3-year starter, spent two summers in the Cape Cod Baseball League (Chatham Anglers ‘17 & Falmouth Commodores ‘18) and was a 2019 All-American and First-Team All-ACC selection. He was drafted by the Yankees in 2018 (38th Round) and the Chicago White Sox in 2019 (5th Round). Dan spent 3 seasons playing with the Chicago White Sox and started coaching in the off-seasons.
CODY MORISETTE
Hitting Coach
Cody Morissette is a professional baseball player from Exeter, NH. Cody was drafted in the second round by the Miami Marlins in 2021. Cody attended Boston College and was named to the ACC All-Tournament Team his freshman year. Prior to BC, Cody was a standout baseball and basketball player where he was First Team All-State in baseball and basketball. Cody also finished with 1,300 points in basketball for Exeter High School.
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JUSTIN POSNIK
Hitting & Pitching Coach
Justin graduated from Skidmore College with a B.S. in Management & Business, and played NCAA baseball for Skidmore. He is now receiving his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Bentley University’s McCallum Graduate School of Business, while also competing in the NCAA for the Bentley University baseball team.
Justin attended Xaverian Brothers High School, where he lettered for 3 years. In 2021, Justin was a member of the Frederick Keys in the inaugural season of the MLB Draft League.
Justin is no stranger to injury, so one of his primary pillars in pitching excellence is staying healthy and staying on the field, through proper arm-care, proper mechanics, and strengthening diligence. Justin is well-versed in the biomechanics of a pitching delivery, and knows how to use data technologies (Trackman, Rapsodo, Edgertronic, etc.) to personalize and tailor movement patterns and pitch design to a specific athlete.
RYAN BERARDINO
Hitting Coach
Ryan Berardino currently serves as Bentley University’s hitting coach after a 5 year career there from 2017-2021 and was a 2019 draft pick of the Boston Red Sox
During his career he had a 333/.409/.467 slash line with his 185 hits including 36 doubles, four triples and 10 home runs. In 2021 he hit a Division II-best .489 and amassed numerous honors, including CCA Division II third-team All-America, NCBWA Division II honorable mention, D2CCA All-East and NCBWA All-East.
He has earned his MBA from Bentley after majoring in marketing as an undergrad. Outside of baseball, he works in cybersecurity sales. His grandfathers, Dwight Evans and Dick Berardino, are well known in baseball circles. Evans is a Red Sox Hall of Famer and Berardino was a former Red Sox coach and a long-time minor league manager.
JOE HUTCHINSON
Pitching Coach
Joe Hutchinson graduated from Springfield College in 2023 with a B.S in Exercise Science. At Springfield he was a 4 year member of the baseball team. While at Springfield Joe was able to get experience training athletes in the weightroom at both Springfield College and Harvard University where he primarily worked with Baseball.Joe also attended Xaverian Brothers High School where he played Baseball and Football.
Joe is now a member of the coaching staff with Lasell Baseball where he will be working with the pitchers. Joes prides himself on being able to have remained healthy throughout his playing career and credits it being diligent in his strength training and post throwing recovery. Joe is dedicated to building better athletes and people.
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EMILY SARGENT
Softball Pitching, Hitting, and Fielding Coach
Emily is a softball pitching and hitting coach and former DI pitcher for Central Connecticut State University. She played softball for the Blue Devils for 4 years and graduated with a degree in Exercise Science. She has been coaching softball players of all ages since 2017, and is the current head coach for the 16U Newton Panthers travel team and founder of Sargent Softball Training. Emily provides private and group lessons in pitching, hitting, and fielding.
She is a certified strength and conditioning coach through the NSCA and has worked with athletes both at the collegiate and high school level at Harvard University, Trinity College and Newton Country Day School. She completed her Master’s degree in management from Harvard University Extension School. She is passionate about softball, strength training, Kesha’s music, and helping people reach their goals.
Champion can help you excel at your sport better than anyone, just like they did for me. Their programs are a big part of my routine.
There is no one I trust more to enhance your performance or return from an injury, Champion is simply the best. I’ve followed their programs my entire career.
I started training at Champion three years ago and I am so glad that I did! As a US Masters swimmer in my 60's I needed injury prevention as much as to build athletic strength for competition. Champion delivered on both counts. I highly recommend Champion.
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