Coach Strome has loved baseball his entire life, playing on travel teams out of Cincinnati and at Sidney High School. After graduation he attended Ohio Wesleyan University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Exercise Physiology and was a four-year letterman on the baseball team. He lead the OWU team in RBIs and home runs, was Honorable Mention All-Conference and 2nd Team All-Conference, and still holds a record there for most doubles in a game. After undergrad, Coach Strome went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology at the University of Akron; while there, he also worked to create strength and conditioning programs for the Akron football and baseball teams, thereby working with athletes for over twelve years. Since completing graduate school, Coach Strome has worked within various health and wellness fields, including cardiac rehabilitation, Fortune 500 employee wellness, and hospital administration. He has a wife and two beautiful daughters, who also share his love for baseball.

Coach Clinger began his coaching career assisting his son's high school summer team. He was instantly hooked and continued to do that for two years. From there, he started the Westerville American Legion team so players in his son's class would have a place to play in between high school graduation and college ball. That year the team ended up losing their District Championship to the eventual Ohio State Legions Champs. In the mid-90's he created and coached the Westerville Boys of Summer team, a college player Summer program made up of mainly NCAA D-III players, winning double championships in their 3rd year. Clinger's coaching opportunities really took off when he was an assistant coach with the Delaware Cows of the Great Lakes Collegiate Wood Bat League. There, he worked with NCAA D-I players from places like Mississippi, Mississippi State, Clemson, LSU, Georgia, and locally from Ohio State, Ball State and Kent State. Working with this level of players made him realize that college baseball is where he wanted to coach, as the players knew the fundamentals and just needed to learn the fine points of the game. This led Clinger to an 8-year run as an assistant coach at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he coached the catchers and also worked with batting, base running and corner infielders. OWU is where he developed recruiting abilities and learned the inner workings of what all a collegiate head coach is responsible for doing.

Logan has been involved in baseball for his entire life growing up in North Central Ohio. Playing his high school ball at Loudonville High School, where he is now a volunteer assistant. He holds the record for strikeouts in a game at Loudonville with 15 K’s against Lucas in 2018. Fisher was a Second Team All-Ohio player and MBC Player of the Year in the 2018 season. Following high school he attended college at Urbana University. Due to the Covid pandemic Urbana abruptly shut down during his sophomore season. Where he ended up transferring to Tiffin University. During his time at Tiffin, he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Software Development and Master’s in Data Analytics. Along with his schooling, he was a pitcher for both universities’ baseball teams. Throughout his college career, he was a part of Tiffin’s first regular season GMAC Championship Squad in 2022. Following that season he also played with the Chillicothe Paints, who won the Prospect League Championship that summer. In his last season with the Tiffin Dragons, he led the team in strikeouts with 61 while logging 45.0 innings. Across his 5 collegiate seasons and 2 summer ball seasons his career K/9 was a 9.6. Following his baseball career, he completed an internship with Prospect Select, where he analyzed baseball data from Flightscope machines during tournaments they hosted. Now he works in the IT department for Avita Health Systems.

Primarily a catcher and right fielder, Coach Branham played youth through varsity baseball in the Plymouth area. His fondest baseball memory, as a player, was playing on the Mid-Ohio Champion Babe Ruth League team as a teenager. He has been active in baseball since age 5. On the advice of his coaches, Coach Branham served as a player-coach on his high school baseball team as a Senior. Recently, he has been a volunteer coach with Nike and USA Baseball at Ohio Christian University. He is currently a Varsity Head Coach, as well as a summer league head coach. With umpire, playing, and coaching experience, Coach Branham has a lot to bring to the table and has active licenses with the state of Ohio and USA Baseball. In the summer of 2021, he created and directed a highly successful local youth skills baseball camp. Coach Branham says that he loves baseball because it is a true team game - everyone has to do their part to be successful. He loves working with young players because he wants to see young players take their game to the next level! Coaching with young players one on one is a great way to help with the mental and physical aspects of baseball. As Yogi Berra once said “Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical!”