by European Baseball Coaches Association
On the last day of the 2015 Convention in Lisbon the third EBCA Award Recipient of 2015 was announced. The result of the online-voting made a winner of David Winkler as the 2015 EBCA „Coach of the Year“. Winkler, who for years has had trenemdous results as well as developmental succes with his players, works for the Brno Baseball Academy in the Czech Republic and is the Head Coach of the CBA´s U18 National Team. With his team he finished in third place at the 2015 European U18 Championships. And also had a great showing at the PONY (Colt) World Series, where his team finished in 4th place, which is the best European results to date.
Unfortunately Winkler could not be present in Lisbon. Symbolically for him the award was presented to Andy Berglund. The former Czech Nartional Team Coach is a friend of Winkler´s and was able to deliver a personal thank you note on behalf of David Winkler.