East Carolina Baseball and Softball Academy

Just opened up 6 additional hours with Coach Andrew on Saturday the 29th. If you’re having difficulty scheduling during the week, he is now working on select Saturdays. Only six slots are available for this Saturday.

Appointments | ENC PERFORMANCE

🔥 EXTRA REPS ARE HERE! 🔥

The players who separate themselves are usually the ones willing to put in the extra work.

Every other Saturday morning from 8:00–10:00 AM, we’re opening up limited spots for players who just want to come in and GET REPS.

⚾🥎 $25 — ALL YOU CAN HANDLE:
• Batting Practice
• Ground Balls
• All batting practice on our HitTrax simulator

No wasted time. No standing around. Just quality reps designed to build confidence, consistency, and take your game to the next level.

✅ Baseball & Softball players welcome
📅 Every other Saturday
⏰ 8:00–10:00 AM
💰 $25 per player
🔥 SPOTS ARE LIMITED!

Sign up on our website under CLASSES:
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Extra work today. Next level tomorrow. 💪⚾🥎

You can’t expect your child to develop mental toughness if you continue to make every task easier for them.

Baseball and softball are games of failure, adversity, and adjustment. They’re going to strike out. They’re going to make errors. They’re going to sit the bench. They’re going to have bad games. And sometimes, things simply aren’t going to feel fair.

Our job as coaches and parents isn’t to remove every obstacle — it’s to teach them how to work through it.

Don’t immediately blame the coach.
Don’t make excuses for a bad performance.
Don’t look for an easier team every time things get difficult.

Let them struggle. Let them learn. Let them respond.

Because one day, they won’t have someone there to make the situation easier.

If you want mentally tough athletes, you have to allow them to experience tough situations.

🥎⚾ LABOR DAY DEFENSIVE CAMP! ⚾🥎

No school = time to get better.

Join us Monday, September 7th for our Baseball & Softball Defensive Camp! We’ll spend two hours focused on:

🔥 Defensive fundamentals
🔥 Challenging, high-rep drills
🔥 Game-like situations
🔥 Competition

🥎 Softball Defensive Camp
⏰ 9:00–11:00 AM
👥 Ages 8–14

⚾ Baseball Defensive Camp
⏰ 11:00 AM–1:00 PM
👥 Ages 8–13

💰 $30 per athlete (Cash only upon arrival)

Sign up using the link below

https://book.squareup.com/classes/af345om8t62jd8/location/LZZCAJCN2T6C5/classes?buttonTextColor=ffffff&color=d1432a&locale=en&referrer=so

Coaches: You will be hated if you allow politics to take over how you coach, and you will be hated if you don’t allow politics to take over how you coach. So do what’s right, because hate will happen; just make sure it’s for the right reason.

⚾️ Homeschool Small Group Training is Here! ⚾️

Looking for a structured way to keep your athlete developing during the school year?

Join our Homeschool Small Group Sessions every Monday & Wednesday from 10:00–11:30 AM! These 90-minute sessions are designed to help athletes build confidence through quality reps and instruction in:

🔥 Hitting Development
🧤 Fielding Fundamentals
💪 Throwing Mechanics & Arm Development

✅ Ages: 6th Grade–12th Grade
💲 $30 per athlete, per session

Our focus is simple: develop better players by teaching the fundamentals the right way in a positive, competitive environment.

Spots are limited to ensure every athlete gets quality instruction.

📩 Send us a message to reserve your athlete’s spot!

What’s the point of taking your kids to lessons if they don’t practice outside of lessons?

🚨 LIMITED-TIME OPPORTUNITY 🚨

We’re excited to welcome Juan Garcia to our coaching staff for a limited time only!

Juan will be in town for just one month, offering catching and hitting instruction to players looking to take their game to the next level.

⚾ Former professional player in the Cincinnati Reds organization
⚾ Experience playing in multiple professional leagues
⚾ Elite instruction for catchers and hitters from someone who has competed at the professional level

If you’re serious about improving behind the plate, sharpening your swing, and learning from someone who’s played the game at the highest levels, this is an opportunity you don’t want to miss.

📅 Only in town for one month — don’t wait to book your spot!

📞 To schedule a lesson with Juan Garcia, call or text: (623) 498-2073

Before your child ever becomes a great baseball or softball player, they have to become comfortable struggling.

Too many parents are chasing perfection instead of growth.

Growth looks like strikeouts.
Growth looks like errors.
Growth looks like bad games.
Growth looks like failure followed by showing up the next day ready to work.

If your child is afraid to fail because they’re worried about your reaction, they’ll stop taking risks. And when they stop taking risks, they stop growing.

The best players aren’t the ones who never fail—they’re the ones who learn from failure, stay coachable, and keep showing up.

As parents, our job isn’t to protect our kids from adversity. It’s to teach them how to respond to it.

Praise the effort.
Celebrate the improvement.
Encourage resilience.

Don’t chase the perfect player. Chase the player who gets 1% better every day.

Because growth lasts much longer than perfection ever will.