2010 Mudville Pinnacle 18U Staff

General Manager: Kurt Boyd
Assistant Manager: Mark Simpson

Head Coach: Liam Woodard
Head Assistant Coach: Kurt Boyd
Assistant Coach: Ron Wold
Assistant Coach: Marc Sagmoen
Assistant Coach: Ron Van Drongelen

Offseason Instruction (Hitting): Marc Sagmoen
Offseason Instruction (Pitching): Derek Bondo

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Mudville Pinnacle History
Mudville Pinnacle Baseball 18U is the club's flagship team. The team is comprised of 18-16U players who attend various high schools throughout the greater Metro Seattle area. The 2009 squad had four of the original members from the first original Mudville team formed in 1999. The 2009 Pinnacle team accumulated a 58-23 record, with a combined total of 101 wins over the past two seasons (2008-09).

In 2009, the club captured the 2009 AABC 18U Connie Mack Washington State Championship, their second AABC state crown in three years. In 2007 the club won the Washington State AABC 16U Mickey Mantle State Championship. The team advanced to the 2009 AABC Regional tournament in Hayward, CA finishing fourth. The 2009 squad also placed 4th at the 2009 NBC 19U Wood Bat World Series in Tulsa, Oklahoma in early July. The 2009 team appeared in seven tournament championship games! Twelve players from the 2009 team have matriculated to various levels of college ball.

Mudville teams have won two National Championships since 2004, most recently at the 2008 Triple Crown National 18U Wood Bat World Series at Suplezio Field in Grand Junction, CO.

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Coaching Philosophy
The 18U program actively seeks players who have a strong desire to advance to the next level of play. These players must have a strong work ethic with a commitment to their team and coaches. Our club's coaching philosophy is to surround these types of players with expert instruction in all facets of the game so they can accomplish their goals. Simply put, this is not about recruiting the highest tier high school players, filling out a line-up card and rolling the ball out to win. Winning with great talent is not hard! The greater challenge is developing the player's ability, increasing performance in the framework of a team structure while playing the game of baseball correctly.

Our coaches are true mentors. We seek coaches with a strong management and teaching skills with at a minimum, professional, collegiate and/or high school experience. Every coach in our organization is required to attend a minimum of 20 coaching clock hours per year. At least one coach on each Mudville team within our organization is a member of the Washington State Coaches Association (WSCA) and/or the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA). Membership does have its priviledges as our relationship with the members enhances networking opportunities, enables dialogue for player references, and more importantly, develops long-term relationships with organizers, coaches and scouts at the highest levels of organized ball.

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2010 Mudville Pinnacle Baseball 18U Coaching Staff Biographies

2010 team is led by Liam Woodard (infield, pitching & catching) and assisted by Marc Sagmoen (outfield and hitting), Kurt Boyd (hitting, pitching & catching), Vince Bailey (base running & outfield) and Ron Von Drongolen (bench coach) round out the staff.

Fall and winter instruction is provided by former major leaguer and Seattle University volunteer coach Dave Wainhouse (pitching), veteran Philadelphia Phillies scout and former University of Washington / University Oregon assistant baseball coach Dave Ryles (hitting) and Philadelphia Phillies roving catching instructor Fred Mack, will provide catching instruction on a periodic basis. A Head Assistant will be named in November of 2009.

Liam Woodard
Liam is the new Head Coach for the 2010 Mudville Pinnacle 18U team.  Liam recently coached at Western Oregon University for five years (2002, 2006-2009) as their pitching coach and under the direction of Head Coach Jeremiah Robbins.   He worked with pitchers and catchers including 2009 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Div. II All-American and NCBWA All-American Blake Keitzman, and 2006 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Div. II All-American and NCBWA All-American Nick Waechter.  He has coached 55 All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference players in his tenure.  Western Oregon has won the GNAC League title each of the past 9 years since the inception of the league in 2001.  Liam's team advanced to the NCAA Div. II West Region tournament in 2006, 2008 and 2009. 

Liam also served as a 18U Head and Pitching Coach for three years, skippering the Post 9 AAA American Legion team in Salem, OR from 2006-2008.  During his tenure, Post 9 team captured the Zone 4 Champions twice, the Oregon State Legion Championship and finished 2nd at the 2007 American Legion Regional Tournament in Casper WY. 

As a player, Liam attended Mountain View HS in Bend, OR where he lettered each of his three years.  He attended Saint Martin’s University his freshman and sophomore years joining the starting rotation in his first year.  He transferred to WOU as their #2 starter and became their Friday night starter his senior year where he finished with an 11-2 record.  Liam led his team to a 3rd place finish 2001 NAIA College World Series in Lewiston, ID.  He was named to the 2001 NAIA Region I All-American team and the 2001 GNAC Pitcher of The Year.  In addition, Liam was named to the 2001 Verizon NAIA Academic All-American Team.  Liam is an account executive at Athletic Supply in Redmond, WA.

Marc Sagmoen
Marc is the Assistant Coach for the 2010 team.  He recently was hired by the Seattle Police Department and will attend Police Academy training in the fall or 2009.  Marc's 2010 coaching duties will be defined more clearly upon his graduation from the police academy graduation. 

Marc will remain with the club as our primary hitting instructor.  During the past two years at Mudville, he has mentored over 15 players who advanced to the college level baseball.  His Mudville head coaching record of 101-47, a .682 winning percentage, is second all-time in Mudville history.

Marc graduated from Kennedy High School (Burien, WA) in 1989 where he earned All League honors. He played two years at Yakima Valley CC and was named the NWAACC Player of the Year in 1991, where he received a scholarship to the University of Nebraska. Marc was named the Big 8 (now Big 12 Conference) Player of the Year while setting the school record for batting average (.454, 18HR, 85 RBI, 32 SB). He was a NCAA First Team All American outfielder and was named to the Smith Super Team as well as receiving other national honors. He set the Nebraska career batting average hitting 451 over two seasons. 

Marc played nine years professionally, seven at the AAA level. He played with the Texas Rangers from 1993-1999 & 2001, which included a stint in the Major Leagues in 1997. He was only one of four players in Major League history to have an inside-the-park home run for their first hit. Marc had the honor of wearing #42 on the night Jackie Robinson's number was retired throughout baseball in his first professional game. He played for Houston in 2000, and Minnesota, and St. Louis in 2001. Marc also played Winter Ball in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. Since retiring in 2001 from pro ball, he has been coaching youth baseball and hitting instructor.  Marc currently is a Project Manager/Estimator for Sagmoen Builders, a custom home residential builder in Seattle. 

Kurt Boyd
Kurt has over 25 years of coaching and sports management experience.  He is a long-time member of the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and the Washington State Coaches Association (WSCA).  Kurt is currently in his second year as the Varsity Pitching Coach at Eastside Catholic HS of the Seattle Metro League.  He coached three years previously at Mercer Island HS, a KingCo 3A school. He is a certified pitching instructor by the National Pitching Association (NPA) training program in 2004.  He is the founded the Mudville Youth Baseball Club in 1999 and serves as the coaching director for the club.

Kurt played baseball throughout his youth and military career.  He rose through Armed Forces Baseball (US Navy) and into college before knee injuries ended his career in 1980.  Kurt turned to competitive softball where he played at the highest national levels of fast and slow-pitch softball for 27 years.  Kurt is one of the top Northwest all-time hit leaders (4357) and home run leaders (1106), a 2-time ASA All-America selection and 2-time All-Navy selection.  In 2001, he was the 25th player to be inducted into the USSSA Washington State Hall of Fame.

Kurt is a graduate of Medford (Oregon) HS and the University of Washington. He holds a MS in Construction Management, a BS in Building Construction and a CE Certificate in Sports Management from the UW Graduate Business School.  He currently is the Manager of Business Development for the Seattle District of PCL Construction Services, one of the largest construction firms in North America.

Vince Bailey
Vince is a part-time assistant coach for the 2010 Mudville Pinnacle team.  Vince's specialty is base running and outfield instruction, and supports the club with hitting instruction as well.

Vince had a successful high school career at Washington HS in Los
Angeles, CA.  Upon graduation attended Los Angeles City College then transferred to Pepperdine University where he played outfield for the Wave in the 1978-79 seasons.

Vince has been in professional baseball since 1975.  Currently he holds the position of Northwest Area Scout for the St. Louis Cardinals.  Vince played professional ball as an outfielder with the Minnesota Twins, Milwaukee Brewers and the Oakland Athletics organizations from 1978-1982.  Coach is a member of the Major League Baseball Alumni Association.

In his 30+ yrs of experience in a professional capacity, Vince has been a hitting/fielding instructor for Milwaukee Brewers fall pro league, Oakland A's fall pro league, St. Louis Cardinals fall instructional league, UCLA, USC, Pepperdine University, Oxnard City College, Ventura City College, Los Angeles City College, Cal State Los Angeles, Cal State Hayward, Cal State Dominguez Hills

Bailey was a high school coach for nine seasons in California at his alma mater Washington HS and Claremont HS in California, and Sammamish HS of the KingCo 3A League in Bellevue, WA.  He is the owner of “Let’s Play“, where he gives professional hitting and baseball instruction and conducts clinics and camps.

Vince has coached for Mudville four seasons, skippering the Beechers HC/IBC club in 2007-08.  He joined the club as the Head Coach for the Mudville Nationals/IBC team in 2006. He is currently the Head Coach for the 13U Mudville Cardinals.

Ron Van Drongelen
Ron joined Mudville in 2008 an assistant coach to the Mudville Pinnacle Baseball team. He is a graduate of Ingraham HS in Seattle, where he played varsity baseball for two years as centerfielder. Ron received 3A All-Metro honors his senior year playing for the Rams.

After joining the military, he continued baseball playing for the US Air Force in England, where his team won the USAF European Championship three years in a row.   Ron pitched, played shortstop and center-field.  Upon returning to Texas, he played fast-pitch for the base team and continued in a local fast-pitch team when he returned to Seattle. He has an extensive knowledge of baseball, loves working with the kids and has been coaching youth for 20 years.  Ron is a retired business owner, living in the Puget Sound area.