49 - Joel Sato: Bingham High School (UT)

Bio

• Head Coach Bingham High School (South Jordan, UT)
• Took over 1993 after serving as an assistant coach for 17 years
• As a HC he has been apart of 14 regional titles and 5 state championships
• Overall he has been a part of 14 state championships in his time at Bingham (3 as a player-2 basketball/1 baseball;  4 asst. Baseball; 2 asst basketball;   5 as head coach)
• 2014 Coach Sato was inducted into the the National HS Baseball coaches Association Hall of Fame
• Served USA baseball selection task force
• Clinician at the National HS Baseball coaches association
• Served as president for the Utah HS baseball coaches association
• Chairman of the Rocky Mountain district liaison to the National HS Baseball Coaches association
• First class person
• Always learning. He is a first row audience member!
• Is a teacher!

Notes

• Challenge now is having all this information and seeing what we can implement and take into our program
• You measure what to implement by the success you have over the course of time
• Challenge BP instead of feel good BP
• At least one to two sets of BP that players will be challenged
• Define what mentally tough is
  • Being at your best when you need it
    • Slow it down
    • Have a routine - breath, clear mind, focal point, one positive process thought
    • calm everything down
    • Process oriented - see the ball, be on time, execute this pitch
    • Release routine - a way to get rid of what bad happened, calm down, step back, and then move on
      • Take it into life, so you know how to handle it in the future
• All players in our program practice together 
• Classroom session at least once a week to discuss lessons, both intentional and at a teachable moment
• Part of the gym hitting, part of the gym defense
  • Split into infield/outfield or pitchers/catchers and position players
• Finish with team competition - two teams go against each other
  • Bunt scrimmage
  • First and third situation
  • Run downs
• “Fire drill”
• Tryouts 4-5 days
• Write out the first week 
• Couple bunt defenses, 1st and 3rd situations, just basics to get the year started, and as we get into the next phase of the season we will add more
• Practice planning based on what we don’t do well in game once the season starts, and adding things we could not get to
• Early in the year planned out, games start make adjustable
• All players in the program go to every varsity game
• Given staff ownership of their roles and let them work
•  Build the culture, building young men to better young men and the baseball got better
• Build young men first, not chasing wins
• Treat the guys the right way to do things on and off the field
• Groups take a core value and present on it and what it means to us
• Come up with one word that would describe what people would say about us when they see us play
• joe.sato@jordandistrict.org
• 801-842-6150
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