Our Roving Coaches Clinics bring the Twins Community Fund's expertise to your community, teaching coaching techniques across various aspects of the game for new and experienced coaches alike. Clinics are free for communities to host and free for coaches and parents to attend. Funding is provided by the Minnesota Twins Community Fund.
The clinic formats have been designed by Minnesota Twins Community Fund Baseball Ambassador Brian Raabe. A six-time Minor League All-Star and batting champion, Raabe has been a key figure in youth baseball for a number of years as a leader, mentor, instructor and coach. As our Baseball Ambassador, Raabe lends his experience and insight to lead clinics for young baseball players and coaches across Twins Territory.
Clinics last between two and three hours, including time for questions and discussion.
We urge host communities to invite parents as well as coaches, so that parents can understand the techniques and drills that their kids are practicing and help implement them at home. The Twins Community Fund provides all the instruction equipment needed; attendees are asked to bring any materials they need to record notes. The more coaches and parents who attend, the better the young ballplayers in your community will be!
CLINIC HOST RESPONSIBILITIES
The organization and/or community hosting a Twins Community Fund Roving Coaches Clinic has a few responsibilities leading up to the day of the clinic:
Clinic Sites
The Twins Community Fund requires coaches clinic hosts to secure an indoor site for the clinic date. The venue should be large enough to accommodate the number of attendees with seating. As clinics are conducted in a lecture format, clinics should be scheduled indoors to protect against inclement weather. The host is also responsibility for conducting any check-in or registration; a minimum attendee commitment is required in the application.
Promotion
The Twins Community Fund expects that each host will do everything within their means to promote the clinic to the coaches and parents in their organization or community. Twins Community Fund staff can help host communities promote their clinics by providing hosts with images and logos for flyers and posters.