TRAINING AND INSTRUCTORS

Romell Mitchell
Hitting and Outfield

2008 Recipient of Inspire the Future Award, Presented by Fidelity and Seattle Mariners

Played varsity level baseball at West Seattle High School for 4 years; awarded the honor of All Metro 1st Team during junior and senior years.

Drafted out of high school by the Houston Astros; declined draft.

Played baseball at both Bellevue Community College and St. Martin’s College.

Drafted out of college by the San Diego Padres.

Played professional baseball in both the Frontier and Canadian baseball Leagues.

Trained and coached at University of Washington Baseball camps.

Trained and coached at the Arizona Diamondbacks and Jim Lefevre Training Centers.

 Billy Kehoe

 Krush Softball, in the Spring of 2004. The mission was simple, offer the absolute best. Billy Kehoe started The Krush Hitting company and its derivatives, Krush Baseball and Diamond Sport development programs, to all who wanted to find their true potential in the game.

Billy played high school and college ball in Arizona and Louisiana before being drafted by the Oakland A's. After his playing days, he coached High School baseball and football in Arizona before coaching college baseball in Texas and Louisiana.

After his collegiate coaching experience, he started working privately with high school, collegiate and professional ballplayers.

 Soon after the private instruction started he created the idea of a FACT-BASED instructional and development programs. A year-long study led to the birth of the Krush hitting company and its derivatives soon followed.

Nearly 300 camps, clinics and speaking engagements later ... we are opening up training facilities and sponsoring teams in 5 states ... with that same mission.

Nate Barnett

     Hitting, pitching, and mental skills coach residing in the Puget Sound area in Washington State.  His collegiate career took place at George Fox University where he finished with a career batting average of .467 and is the all time career leader in home runs and runs batted in.  He also finished his collegiate career with over 20 wins as a pitcher.  After college, Nate signed with the Seattle Mariners Organization as a first baseman and played locally for the Everett Aqua Sox.  After his professional career ended, Nate began coaching high school as well as collegiate baseball.  BMI Baseball, was founded in an in 2007 to allow Nate to better serve the baseball community.

David Moore

     Former collegiate player, current Horizon (AZ) high School hitting coach, Krush Hitting Company’s hitting coordinator and catching instructor.

Daniel Jahn, CSCS, USAW

     The Co-Owner and Director of Training and Education of Maximum Sports Conditioning, Daniel Jahn has been in and around sports training for 11 years.  He played baseball at the University of Washington from 1997 until 2000 when a back injury ended his career.  He was hired as an assistant baseball coach at the UW, and as an intern in the Husky weight room.   He became a part-time assistant strength coach the following year, and then full-time in 2002.  He was the head of Baseball, Softball, Swimming, and Volleyball, but also worked extensively with Football, and helped with Basketball and Soccer.  In 2005, he became the head assistant strength coach for the Husky Football team under Steve Emtman and later, Trent Greener.  Along with training hundreds of collegiate athletes, and the 2005 NCAA National Championship Volleyball team at the UW, he has trained professionals of all backgrounds ranging from Mixed Martial Arts competitors to Olympic Snowboarders, held numerous clinics and seminars for youth of all sports, performed instructional training seminars for personal trainers, organized and facilitated strength and conditioning coaches’ clinics, organized summer baseball camps for kids, and is a part-time columnist for STACK magazine (articles written appear in April 05, Oct. 05, Nov. 05, Feb. 06).  Most recently he was the Director of Training and Education at Endzone Athletics, where he established and operated countless programs for high school athletes. He is also the author of the ‘College Preparation: Manual for Athletic Success’ which is a workbook designed to prepare athletes for college athletics. 

      Daniel is the Program Director and Lead Facilitator for two programs in a non-profit organization called the Think Big Foundation.  One program, The Athletic Performance for Life Program (which he created with Joel Jamieson, the owner of Endzone Athletics), is a sports conditioning and development program for high school students which is focused on life skill development, athletic development, and the academic development.  The Life Coaching and Mentorship Program (which he also created) partners with the University of Washington and brings Husky Athletes to local middle schools to help prepare 7^th and 8^th grade athletes for high school.    

      Daniel Jahn and his staff (we have 4 other coaches of various backgrounds) will be conducting all training workouts.

Billy Boyer

      Billy was a 4 year varsity letterman at Enumclaw High School Graduation in 2003. He originally signed to attend the University of Washington before being drafted in 2003 by the California Angels. Billy is a switch hitting infielder that has played at each professional level reaching as high as triple A over the past 4 seasons in the Angels organization.

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