Coaches Clinic Featuring Greg Beals and Kevin Long Set for Dec. 16 – Ohio State Buckeyes
11/22/2011 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Nov. 22, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State baseball coaching staff will be teaming up with New York Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long for the program’s annual coaches clinic. The clinic will be a three-hour symposium at 6 p.m. Dec. 16 at the Fawcett Center on the Ohio State campus.
The clinic is open to youth, club and high school coaches. Food will be served and will feature a “day at the ballpark” theme with hot dogs, popcorn and cold drinks. Speakers will include Long and Ohio State head coach Greg Beals.
Long returned for his fifth season with the Yankees in 2011. Under his tutelage, the Yankees have led Major League Baseball in runs scored in three of his five years. The 2010 Yankees led the majors with a .350 on-base percentage and ranked second in walks (662), third in home runs (201) and eighth in batting average (.267). Long had seven players score at least 70 runs, one shy of the franchise record set in 1939. Yankee batters set a franchise record with 244 home runs in 2009, surpassing the previous high of 242 set in 2004.
Beals, just the third head coach in the last 48 years at Ohio State, is in his second season after coming to Columbus from Ball State. At Ball State, Beals led the school to three MAC West Division titles and the first MAC Tournament crown in school history. In addition, Beals, named “best game coach” in the MAC in 2009 by CollegeBaseballInsider.com, had three seasons of 36 or more victories and had 21 of his Ball State players selected in the Major League Baseball draft.
For more information, visit the 2011 Baseball Coaches Clinic page here.
