BaseballMK sent three of their coaching staff to the three day winter coaching clinic held in London.

COURSE SPEAKERS

JOHN VODENLICH
HEAD COACH - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER

John Vodenlich enters his third season as the Warhawks head coach and is coming off the schools first NCAA Division III Championship in baseball with a 46-7 record and claiming their fifth WIAC title in the past 6 years. He was honored by the American Baseball Coaches Association as their 2005 NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year and the 2004 NCAA Division III Regional Coach of the Year. In his two years as UWWhitewaters head coach, his teams have compiled a record of 84-16, as well as a third place finish in the 2004 NCAA Division III Championship Series.

Vodenlich played baseball for the Warhawks from 1989-1992 before earning a degree in marketing and public relations. He then played professional baseball in Europe, leading the "Zajck" or "rabbits" to the Slovenian National Championship in 1994. Vodenlich returned to Wisconsin in 1994 to become the Executive Director of Recreation at Fontana Recreation on Geneva Lake. He also returned to UW-Whitewater as an assistant coach.

Vodenlich earned his Masters in Business Administration from Whitewater in 1994, and remained an assistant coach through the 1997 season. He was named head baseball and golf coach at Edgewood College in 1998, taking over a program with a lifetime record of 33-103. His teams finished 29-40 over two season, and Edgewood posted its first ever winning season with a 19-17 record in 1999.

Vodenlich returned to Whitewater in summer 1999 and serves as the Marketing and Promotions Coordinator for Intercollegiate Athletics in additional to his baseball duties. He served as an assistant coach until 2003 before being named the Warhawks' head coach.
 

CHARLIE GREENE SR.
FORMER HEAD COACH - MIAMI-DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
FORMER HEAD COACH - TEAM USA

One of the best known college coaches in the USA, Charlie Greene is a veteran of the clinic circuit not only in America, but also around the world. After coaching high school baseball in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, leading his school to the state championship in 1964, Greene moved on to the college ranks serving three years as a graduate assistant at the University of Alabama while earning his graduate degree. His next move would prove to be his last. In 1967, he took over as head coach at Miami-Dade Community College and held that post for the next 30 years leading the school to three Florida State Championships - not an easy feat considering the talent in that state - and in 1981 winning it all, the National Junior College World Series. Coach Greene also spent eleven summers as a pitching coach for several MLB minor league teams. He also served as head coach for Team USA in 1988 and 1989. Among his many other achievements, he was the pitching coach during the Japan-USA College Series and spent many summers coaching the countrys best collegians in the Cape Cod League. Greene became the first junior college coach to serve as President of the American Baseball Coaches Association and currently serves on that groups Board of Directors. In high demand as a clinician especially because of his pitching expertise, he has had the honor of speaking at the ABCA Clinic - the worlds largest baseball clinic - on numerous occasions. He has also spoken at several dozen state association clinics, and his international reputation has brought him to Italy, Poland, Holland, Czech Republic, Aruba, Curacao, Sweden, and, for the second time, Germany. Coach Greene has also published several books on pitching and is a regular contributor to Collegiate Baseball magazine. His pitching chapter in the ABCA book, The Coaching Bible, is considered the definitive authority on the subject. Lately, he has been crusading for a standardization of throwing method around the world.
 

DAVID PERCHINSKY
ASSISTANT COACH - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER

Coach Perchinsky is beginning his third season with the Warhawk staff. In his first two years UW-Whitewater has gone 84-16 and have earned the 2005 NCAA Division III National Championship and finished third in the nation in 2004.

Perchinsky received a degree in sociology from South Dakota State University in 1997. He earned a masters degree in sports pedagogy in 2003 from SDSU.

Perchinsky was a pitcher for Normandale Community College in Bloomington, MN in 1993, earning a letter and Second Team Minnesota Junior College honors. From 1994-96 Perchinsky pitched for South Dakota State, twice earning a letter.

Perchinsky's coaching background includes a year as a volunteer assistant at SDSU (1997), one as an assistant at Augustana College (SD, 1998), and another as an assistant in the Ron Hunt Independent Eagles Baseball Association in Wentzville, MO (2000). He also served as the head coach at Brooklyn Center (MN) High School for three years (1998-2001), and for two years (2001-2003) as a graduate assistant/assistant coach at his alma mater. At SDSU his primary responsibilities included the pitching staff, conditioning and recruiting.
 

CHARLIE GREENE JR.
CATCHING INSTRUCTOR - MILWAUKEE BREWERS
FORMER MLB PLAYER - BALTIMORE ORIOLES, MILWAUKEE BREWERS, N.Y, METS & TORONTO BLUE JAYS

Charlie played professionally for 13 years, spending parts of 5 seasons in the Major Leagues with 4 different teams. Since retiring in 2003, he has been coaching professionally and is currently the roving catching instructor for the Milwaukee Brewers.
 

JIM MILLER
FORMER HEAD COACH - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER