Press Release EBCA, www.baseball-in-europe.com
The weekend from the 20th to the 22nd of November, Brussels was hosting the 6th EBCA Convention.
Over 100 from all over Europe gathered in the beautiful Courtyard from Brussels.
Obviously, Belgium, the host country had the best representation with over 50 participants, thanks to the Belgian Federation and its 2 leagues and their excellent work for promoting the event.
Neighbor countries also showed up in very good numbers with 25 French coaches and 15 German coaches.
The rest of the participants came from the UK to Slovakia and from Sweden to Italy making it the most international coaching event in Europe.
There was also a wide variety of coaches attending, from youth coaches to national team and academy coaches.
Of course, the speakers, Jim Lefebvre, Jim Jones, Mike Lane, Mauro Mazzotti, Vaughn Robinson and Steve Janssen played a key role in the success of the week-end.
The EBCA honored the 2009 EBCA Coach of the Year, Steve Janssen from Neptunus Rotterdam, Dutch champion 09 and the EBCA Career Achievement Award winner, Clive Russell from MLBI for his work in Europe over the last 2 decades.
More pictures of the Convention from Brussels on the Facebook page from EBCA:
The next edition of the EBCA Convention will take place in Germany, heading back to Cologne and the EBCA staff is looking forward to making Brussels’ 2009 EBCA Convention the most successful for no more than 12 months.
So, don’t forget, 19th to 21st of November 2010 – 7th EBCA Convention in Cologne, Germany.
In the meantime EBCA announced 2 weeks ago, the development of a coaching exchange program.
EBCA member coaches will get the opportunity to to be hosted in high schools and colleges in the US for a couple weeks.
It’s just one more step in supplying interested European Coaches with the right tools to improve the game in the Old World.
ISG clinics for this Winter
Remember ISG clinics are open to everybody and not only domestic coaches.
December 12-13, 2009 – European Coaches’ Clinic (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
ISG Team Leader; Tom O’Connell
ISG Speakers; Terry Collins (MLB) and Kirk Champion (Chicago White Sox)
January 15-17, 2010 - German Baseball Coaches’ Clinic (Regensburg)
ISG Team Leader; Tom O’Connell
ISG Speakers; Jerry Weinstein (Colorado Rockies) & Ron Wolforth (Texas Baseball Ranch)
January 22-24, 2010 - Italian Baseball Coaches Convention (TBA)
ISG Team Leader; Ron Maestri
ISG Speakers; Eric Wedge, Robby Thompson
January 22-24, 2010 – Irish Baseball Coaches Clinic (TBD)
ISG Team leader; Tom O’Connell
ISG Speakers; Rick Steen (De la Salle H.S.)& Charlie Greene (Milwaukee Brewers)
January 22-24, 2009 -Croatia/ Slovenia Baseball Coaches Clinic (Varazdin, Croatia)
ISG Team Leader; Bill Percy (St. Mary’s H.S., Colorado Springs, Co)
ISG Speakers; John Vodenlich (University of Wisc.-Whitewater)
