Every NESA Baseball/Softball student will benefit from the professional coaching and focused instruction provided by our NESA staff. All baseball students will learn the necessary skills that will enhance athletic ability, which will increase self-esteem and motivational tactics for use in their everyday lives. Each session focuses on several of the following skills: soft-toss hitting, swing techniques, pitching, learning infield and outfield positions, bunting, playing situations, balance, strengthening, and conditioning. All baseball students will gain better hand-and-eye coordination that will not only help them with baseball, but will be useful in many other sports. NESA offers recreational classes (ages three to twelve years old), pre teams, and competitive AAU teams.
3-4 years old classes (Boys/Girls)
Classes will consist of learning to hit a baseball using a tee, throwing a baseball to a target, and increasing motor skills through different kinds of movements across the field. At this age the most important focus is self-esteem, confidence, and learning to love the sport with fun progressions and games.
5-6 years old classes (Boys/Girls)
Classes will continue teaching hitting techniques: hitting a pitched ball using proper grip of the bat; fielding the baseball with throwing and catching skills. As the children continue to learn more specific techniques about baseball, their self-esteem and teamwork will improve through positive instruction and encouragement.
7-9 years old classes and 10-12 years old classes (Boys/Girls)
Hitting/Fielding
Pitchers/Catchers
At these ages we offer two different classes- Hitting/Fielding and Pitchers/Catchers. This allows a child to attend a class to work on a specific aspect of his/her game or attend both for improvement in all positions of the game. In Hitting and Fielding players will learn the roles and techniques of all fielding positions and improve their overall hitting by working on all parts of their swing. In Pitchers and Catchers players will improve their skills through drills, repetitions, and sport-specific conditioning. This is a class for a range of players that want to add some speed to their fastball or find that all-important strike zone. A player can work on one or both positions of the game. In our baseball recreational classes, all students are challenged at their own pace and are given consistent encouragement to try their best.
Junior Medina graduated from Stonehill College in 2002 and
was a four year starter and a captain his junior and senior
year. He started his career at Stonehill
with freshmen of the year honors, hitting .416, 11 home
runs, and was
selected to annual Division 1 vs. Division 2 All Star game
at Fenway Park.
With Solid numbers his sophomore year and junior year,
Medina took his
senior to another level. He was Stonehill's first ever First
Team All
American , who also earned the honor as ABCA
and NCBA Regional Player of
the year and earning a trip to the NCAA Home Run Challenge
at the Division I
college world series in Omaha, Nebraska. While batting .436
and having an
incredible record breaking senior year. He set Stonehill
records with single
season & career homers and broke the New England Division II
career hit
record with 282. To cap off the 2002 senior year, he was
awarded the
William Allard/Marty McDonough New England Sportsmanship
Award.
He had a great experience playing with some of the top
future prospects in
the (CCBL) Cape Cod Baseball League in 1999 & 2000 with the
Orleans
Cardinals and in the (NECBL) New England College Baseball
League in 2001
with the Concord Quarry Dogs. He spent part of one summer on
the USA East
Coast Travel team where they played across seas in
Amsterdam, Holland, and
Germany. It was an eye opening experience seeing teams from
Italy, China,
Germany, Holland, and Amsterdam embrace baseball with
limited baseball
fields.
Medina was by passed by the Major League draft in 2002 but
he spent three
professional baseball seasons in the Northern
League presently known as the Canam League. In 2004 he played part time helping out the
Rocks after two
starting outfielders went down do to injuries and in 2003 he
helped the
Brockton Rox win their first ever Championship. He started
his professional
career in 2002 in the Northeast league with the New York
Adirondack
Lumberjacks Divisional Champs. While playing three years of
professional
baseball Medina spent time teaching at Southeastern Regional
Technical High
School and was Head JV football and basketball coach. From
2003 to 2005 he
was the Director of Baseball Operations for Mo
Vaughn's Hitdog Training and
Fitness Center in Stoughton, MA. After the closing of the
Hit Dog Training
Center, Medina took a position with the Boston Centers for
Youth and
Families Recreation Department. He was an Assistant to the
recreation
director Garin Veris a former defensive lineman for the
Patriots. Medina
was formly the General Manager/ Top Instructor at the TJO
Sports Facility in
Canton, Massachusetts until he got an opportunity to move on
and open his
own facility. After working at Hit Dog Training Center, City
of Boston
Recreation, and TJO Sports Junior took his experience and
now is the proud
owner of JM Sports Academy "where training is #1".
Junior Medina can be reached at 617-777-6258 or
Juniormedina@jmsportsacademy.com
