 Camp staff members include local high school coaches, active college coaches/players, and coaches with previous professional playing experience. The camp staff provides instruction in proper baseball mechanics through effective station drills designed to build skill development. Campers are taught various skills to help them become better baseball players. Proper fundamentals and techniques of hitting, throwing, running, fielding, sliding, bunting, and more are taught by qualified instructors with professional/college/high school coaching experience. Darren Gurney | Camp Director
Rising Star Baseball Camp Director Darren Gurney has been running the camp since its inception in July of 1999. Since receiving his first coaching position in February of 1992, Coach Gurney has coached over twenty players that were selected in the MLB Draft or who have gone on to play professional baseball. Coach Gurney has been teaching social studies at New Rochelle High School since 1996. Read More >> | Chris Lopez | Field Director I Rising Star Baseball Camp assistant camp director Chris Lopez has been instructing at the camp since 2003. In January of 2008, Coach Lopez signed a professional baseball contract with the Chillicothe Paints of the Frontier Baseball Leauge. Read More >> | Eric Fama | Pitching Coach
Eric Fama graduated from New Rochelle HS in 2004 where he starred on both the wrestling and baseball teams. Read More >> | Pete Annunziata | Field Director III
Pete Annunziata has been the field director of the AAA diamond since 2005. Coach Annunziata is the head varsity baseball coach at New Rochelle HS Read More >> | Anthony Deluke | Field Director IV
Anthony Deluke has been the head baseball coach at Albert Leonard Middle School since 2000. His team has dominated middle school baseball during the past few seasons. Read More >> | Scott Perlman | Field Director V Scott Perlman began working at the Rising Star Baseball Camp in 2008 after returning from playing professional baseball in Israel. Read More >> | Claude Balliet | NRHS Assistant Coach
Coach Claude Balliet attended the Rising Star Baseball Camp in summers 1999-2001. Read More >> | Dan Kelly | Outfield Coach
Dan Kelly began coaching at Rising Star Baseball Camp in 1999. As captain and spirited leader of his high school team, Dan moved on to Yale University. Dan returned in 2008 to coach baseball and teach math at Albert Leonard Middle School. Read More>> | Tommy Koehler | Pitching Coach
Coach Tom Koehler began coaching at the Rising Star Baseball Camp in 2005. Read More >> | Matt LaPadula | NRHS Assistant Coach
Coach LaPadula was a camper at Rising Star Baseball Camp during summers 1999-2001. In 2008, Coach LaPadula took an assistant coaching position at New Rochelle HS. Having been a starting Read More >> | Nick Albero | Assistant Coach
Former camper Nick Albero led his college team, Dowling College, to the Division II College World Series in 2009. As a former camper, Nick has been coaching Read More >> | Steven Matos | Assistant Coach
Steven Matos graduated from New Rochelle HS in 2007 where he earned the prestigious Male Scholar-Athlete Award. Read More >> | Michael Sabatello | Field Director II
Coach Mike Sabatello began coaching at the Rising Star Baseball Camp in 2009. Read More >> | Thomas Hobson | Camp Trainer & Conditioning Coach
Thomas Hobson attended Rising Star Baseball Camp in 2000. After graduating from Georgetown University, Coach Hobson was accepted in NYU's graduate school Read More >> | Brett Rosen | Assistant Coach
Coach Brett Rosen began coaching at the Rising Star Baseball Camp in 2008. After attrending the camp for six consecutive years and being recognized as a top catcher in the area, Coach Rosen will be playing NCAA Baseball at Read More >> |
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