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Adrian Mendoza
Manager / Head Coach
714-488-0353
tustintitans@hotmail.com
Coach Adrian Mendoza is the Assistant Varsity Coach at Segertrom HS and is now entering his 10th year of coaching competitive youth baseball and 7th season with Tustin Titans as a manager and head coach. In those 10 years he has been fortunate to coach over 800 games for teams ranging between 12 and 18 years old. He has coached 5 years of high school baseball (Tustin H.S. Frosh, 2 Junior Varsity, Varsity, and Mater Dei Frosh), all head coach except for one, and 1 year at the college level (Santa Ana Junior College Mental Coach 08). He was the head coach for the 16u Saddleback Valley Devils for 4 out of 5 years (01-05), and then became the head coach for the OC Dawgs 16u and 15u teams (06-08), and head coach of the OC Black Sox 18u team in 2005. Finding time between teams, he has also worked Coach Tim O'Donoghue summer camp since the 1st camp in 1997 until present and a Mater Dei Fall Camp. He has also been giving private instruction for 7 years.
Over this period, his teams have posted an average .800 win percentage. Winning 13 tournaments, taking 2nd place 8 times, placing 3rd 12 times, two 2nd place State championships in two seasons (07-08) and a 3rd place finish in the 2005 USABF World Series with just the Tustin Titans program alone. With his older teams winning 3 tournaments, taking 2nd place 5 times and placing 3rd 4 times. The Saddleback Valley Devils placed 4th in the Junior Olympics (8th, 24th, 28th and 34th in other seasons) and took 3rd in the Mickey Mantle World Series in 2001 (a 2nd place and two 3rd place finishes in State in other seasons). With the OC Dawgs taking 3rd in state and finishing 28th, 38th and 59th in the Junior Olympics. While working with all his teams, he has been fortunate to have 2 first round draft picks in the MLB Draft (Gerrit Cole 08 #28 Yankees and James Simmons 07 #26 A’s). Gerrit played 3 years (13-15 years old with Titans and Devils) and James for 2 years (15-16 years old with Devils). Another notable player is Aaron Lambrix at Cal State Long Beach (13-16 years old with Titans, Devils, and OC Dawgs).
While being involved in the baseball community, he has had the privilege to come in contact with some great baseball minds. Receiving baseball knowledge from Coach Vince Brown (former Tustin and Foothill HS head baseball coach), Coach Tim O’Donoghue (former Tustin HS head baseball coach), Coach John Elliott (owner of Quakes Baseball Academy) and Dr. Ken Ravizza (professional sports psychologist).
While attending Cal State Fullerton, Adrian and Will had the honor of studying under and working with Dr. Ken Ravizza. Through classes and side projects suggest by Ken, the Titans have come up with strategies and a system to better help players with the mental game. Our system is modeled after his teachings with our some of our own techniques and strategies. These concepts that we present to our players help separate them from other players with equal talent.
Adrian is dedicated to providing quality coaching to all of his players. Not only is he looking to make his players better, but make himself better as a coach every season. Throughout the years, he has developed a system for young players that mimics a high school / college season. Keeping in mind that his players are still kids and not burning them out with too much baseball or abusing their performances. As an organization we have not had a serious injury with any of our players, and provide exercises that help maintain performance, increase performance and durability, and help prevent injury.
Will Webster
Assistant Coach
714-343-7308
wwebster33@yahoo.com
Coach Will Webster is now entering his 8th year of coaching competitive youth baseball and 6th season with Tustin Titans as an assistant coach. In those 8 years he has been fortunate to coach over 600 games for teams ranging between 12 and 18 years old. He was the assistant coach for the 16u Saddleback Valley Devils for 4 years (02-05), and then became the assistant coach for the OC Dawgs 16u and 15u teams (06-08), and assistant coach of the OC Black Sox 18u team in 2005. Finding time between teams, he has also worked the majority of Coach Tim O'Donoghue summer camp since the 1st camp in 1997 until present. He has also been giving private instruction for 6 years.
Over this period, his teams have posted an average .800 win percentage. Winning 13 tournaments, taking 2nd place 8 times, placing 3rd 12 times and two 2nd place State championships in two season (07-08) with just the Tustin Titans program alone. With his older teams winning 3 tournaments, taking 2nd place 5 times and placing 3rd 4 times. The Saddleback Valley Devils placed 8th, 24th, 28th and 34th in the Junior Olympics and took a 2nd and two 3rd place finishes in State Playoffs. The OC Dawgs took 3rd in State and finishing 30th, 38th and 59th in the Junior Olympics. While working with all his teams, he has been fortunate to have 2 first round draft picks in the MLB Draft (Gerrit Cole 08 #28 Yankees and James Simmons 07 #26 A’s). Gerrit played 3 years (13-15 years old with Titans and Devils) and James for 2 years (15-16 years old with Devils). Another notable player is Aaron Lambrix at Cal State Long Beach (13-16 years old with Titans, Devils, and OC Dawgs).
While being involved in the baseball community, he has had the privilege to come in contact with some great baseball minds. Receiving baseball knowledge from Coach Vince Brown (former Tustin and Foothill HS head baseball coach), Coach Tim O’Donoghue (former Tustin HS head baseball coach), Coach Don Sneddon (the all-time winningest coach in California community college baseball history at Santa Ana Junior College) and his staff, Coach John Elliott (owner of Quakes Baseball Academy) and Dr. Ken Ravizza (professional sports psychologist).
While attending Cal State Fullerton, Adrian and Will had the honor of studying under and working with Dr. Ken Ravizza. Through classes and working at Santa Ana College, the Titans have come up with strategies and a system to better help players with the mental game. Our system is modeled after his teachings with our some of our own techniques and strategies. Using the information from his Bachelors of Arts degree from Cal State Fullerton, he is able to apply science to techniques and strategies. Will is dedicated to providing quality coaching to all of his players. Not only is he looking to make his players better, but make himself better as a coach every season.
Robert Padilla
Head Coach
714-397-3338
padirobe19@yahoo.com
Coach Robert Padilla is entering his ninth year of coaching, and his second year with the Tustin Titans. Through those years he has coached and run summer, winter, and fall camps, mini hitting camps, as well as providing one on one instruction for hundreds of children ages 3-17.
Robert played four years of varsity baseball at Santa Ana Valley High School, batting over .400 all four years. He was a two year first team all league and two year second team all league honoree. He then played two years at Santa Ana College, under head coach Don Sneddon, ranked number one among Southern California community colleges. Robert received his bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from California State University Fullerton and his multiple subjects (elementary) teaching credential from National University. He has been substitute teaching for two years, in grades kindergarten through fifth.
Ivan Ramirez
Pitching Instrutor and Part Time Assistant Coach
714-401-1869
eraser12pudge@yahoo.com
Coach Ivan Ramirez is a 2000 graduate of Tustin High School. After being a part of Tustin's CIF semi-final baseball team in 2000, Ivan played collegiately at Santa Ana College (2001-2002) for California Community Colleges all-time winningest head coach, Don Sneddon. He followed that up with two years at UC Santa Barbara (2003-2004), after which he was drafted by the Texas Rangers (50th round). He pitched two years in the Rangers organization (2004-2005) and had the opportunity to work with former big league pitchers Orel Hershiser (Los Angeles Dodgers), Terry Clark (California Angels, Atlanta Braves) and longtime major league league pitching coach Mark Connor (New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks). In addition, Ivan's older brother Erasmo is a fomer Cal State Fullerton Titan (1997) who has pitched in the big leagues for the Texas Rangers, Oakland A's and Milwaukee Brewers.
Ivan has been coaching in the Orange County area for the last four years. Following his playing days, Ivan coached the freshmen baseball team for a season at Tustin High (2006). He has coached a few seasons with the Tustin Titans since 2007 and has been offering private pitching instruction the last three years . In addition, he has coached multiple camps over the last 10+ years at Tim O'Donahue Baseball Camps (1997-2003), Cal State Fullerton (2001) and UC Irvine (2007). Currently Ivan serves as an assisstant coach at Santa Ana College, predominantly working with the pitchers.
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