Press Release Horbach Battle at the Castle tournament
The Horbach Battle at the Castle tournament organisation proudly announces that veteran youth coach Folkwin Lautenslager will manage the BATC Admirals during the 2013 tournament.
“With Folkwin Lautenslager managing one of the Battle at the Castle teams we definitly succeeded in defining our tournament as a premier youth tournament in Europe. Folkwin adds a vast amount of youth coaching experience to the tournament. It will benefit not only the players on the Admirals team, but all the players in our tournament”.
Beside a long active baseball career, that brought him from Jeka to Neptunus, Sparta/Feyenoord, Ado and Twins among others, he took on numerous positions as an instructor at Dutch Baseball Academies and the Dutch Baseball Association (KNBSB). Folkwin is coordinator of the Dutch associations winterschool for Dutch talented youth baseball players.
“We are looking forward to work with Folkwin and we are confident that his ability to teach the extra’s to our tournament players and help them making their baseball dream come true. He’s a perfect match for our tournament.”
The Horbach Battle at the Castle tournament is an initiative of Stichting ontwikkeling Jeugdhonkbal Zuidwest Nederland to develop youth baseball in the south of The Netherlands and will be held this year between July 8 – 13 in Oosterhout. The tournament aims to be the greatest U13 tournament in Europe.
Talented players born after may 1st of 2000 can register at www.batcbaseball.eu