clinics

Clinic Schedule

Big League Experience Ltd. provides the highest of quality player and coaches clinics in the country. The ability to tap into the best coaches and clinicians in the Northwest and Western Canada, mixed in with the years of experience with both players and coaches have made these clinics well sought after.

Big League Experience owner, Marty Lehn, 2004 Canadian Olympic Team coach, and Milwaukee Brewer's Scout along with former Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies organizational infielder, Colin Dixon, bring to your town and parks a definite Big League Experience. The experienced Staff combines Major League Scouts and former professional players along with National and provincial team coaches to bring to you an elite baseball experience.

PHOTO: All star pitcher Ryan Dempster in Victoria as a special guest with coach Lehn and Dixon.

2008 Opening Day Super Clinic Huge Success

The 2008 BLE OPENING DAY Super Clinic saw over 100 coaches from all over B.C. and Washington State spend two full days with top level speakers like Bob Didier, catching coordinator for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Chris Pritchett, former major leaguer of the Anaheim Angels and Philadelphia Phillies and now batting coach for the Vancouver C's along with Marty Lehn, Scout for the Milwaukee Brewers and former coach of the Canadian Olympic Team. Additional instructors included Brandon Newell of the Milwaukee Brewers, Brent Crowther, formally with the Colorado Rockies and current owner of the DUGOUT, Marty Hall, former pitcher for the Oakland A’s and owner of PRO Way Baseball, Mark Randall, Houston Astros sctout and pitching coach for the Canadian National Team, Jake Elder, formally of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Dave Laing of BaseballBC and Curtis Pelletier or PRO Way Baseball and former National Team catcher. The clinic held in conjunction with Baseball B.C. gave coaches the opportunity to take both their NCCP Initiation certification and their NCCP Regional Coach certification over the weekend.

The quality of instructors and their presentations were well received and the BLE staff is already making plans for the 2009 BLE OPENING DAY Super Clinic. In addition to working with the coaches, over 100 players had the opportunity to be coached by Marty and his team of experienced guest coaches. Players aged 9 to 16 worked in sessions all weekend with the guest coaches, tuning up their baseball skills and getting ready for the up and coming season.

Young Player Taking Instruction

We have had the pleasure of having Marty and Colin and their staff present to our organization over the past 7 years. The professionalism and high-powered coaches they have brought to Victoria to conduct our coach and player clinics have been an exceptional wayfor us to kick off the season.

PHOTO: Young player takes instruction from Milwaukee Brewers Scout and Big League Experience Owner Marty Lehn.by Carl Eeg of Pennisula Baseball Association

Baseball Excellence

Coach Colin Dixon (former Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox) along with Marty Lehn (Team Canada Olympic Coach and Milwaukee Brewers Scout) talk hitting to a full house at the Baseball Excellence clinic held at Lambrick Park School in Victoria. FULL STORY

Schedules

Coaches Schedule
Saturday		Sunday
8:00	Registration	9:00	Defensive Strategy
9:00	Coaches Introduction	10:00	Develop an Effective Game Plan
9:10	Master the Pitching Delivery	11:00	Practice Planning and Organization
10:10	Hitting Philosophy and Mechanics	12:00	Lunch
11:10	Catching Fundamentals and Mechanics	1:00	Hitting: Swing Repair With Drills and Develop Pitchers
12:00	Lunch	2:00	Baserunnig: Stealing the extra run
1:00	Daily Throwing Program to Strengthen	3:00	Outfield Play
2:00	Baseball 101	4:00	Smart Goals: Definite Plans
3:00	Infield Mechanics and Drills
4:00	Team USA signal system
Keep It Simple Silly (KISS Principle) Produce Definite Results

Players Schedule
Saturday		Sunday
10:00am - 12:00pm	12 and Under Clinic	9:00am - 11:00am	12 and Under Clinic
1:00pm - 3:00pm	13 and Over Clinic	1:00pm - 3:00pm	13 and Over Clinic
6:30pm - 8:00pm	13 and Over Pitching/Catching Clinic
Registration is Limited so DO NOT Delay

Clinic Instructors in Baseball:

Rick Peterson	New York Mets's Pitching coach
Bob Didier	Catching coordinator and scout for the Arizona Diamondbacks
Ron Polk	Head Coach at Mississippi State University and former Team USA Olympic coach
Don Freeman	Team USA 16 and Under Head Coach
Gary Hatch	Sehome High School Head coach and Washington State High School Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee
Marty Lehn	Milwaukee Brewers Scout, Team Canada Coach
Gord Gerlach	Team Canada Coach and former Oakland A's hitting coach
Colin Dixon	Former Boston Red Sox, Colorado Rockies player
Pat Phelan	Hall of Fame Catcher with Yakima Valley College. Baseball Canada clinician
Dave Harriman	Former Oakland A's organizational catcher
Brent Crowther	Former Colorado Rockies and Team Canada pitcher.
Chris Pritchett	Former big league player with the Anaheim Angels and Philadelphia Phillies.
Jake Elder	Former catcher in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization.
Mark Randall	Houston Astros scout and former pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Marty Hall	Former pitcher in the Oakland A's and Houston Astros organization.

Spring training with Canada's best

Gibson's Minor Baseball Pre-Season Camp A great time was had by all in Gibsons BC as the BLE took their show on the road Apr 23-26, 2007 to work with both coaches and players in a pre-season clinic. The clinic was led by Marty Lehn, co-owner of the Big League Experience and Major League Scout with the Milwaukee Brewers along with his elite staff of Mike Wilson, Chris Strain and Pat Phelan. Coaching the coaches improves an entire organization as solid fundamental skills are passed along.

Japan Trip

BLE Instructors, Marty Lehn and Ken Myette, make a trip to Japan to share the Pacific Northwest spirit of baseball overseas... FULL STORY