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Lightning Select 16U (Coach Turner)
Top 16 out of 56 Teams
2011
CABA World Series
East Cobb Baseball Complex in Marietta, GA |
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Lightning 12u (Coach Salzman) at
Cooperstown All-Star
Village |
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Lightning 11u Red (Coach Tromotola) & Lightning 11u Blue (Coach
Franklin) w/
Team Mexico & Los Iberos at the
2011
CABA 11u World Series |
Thank You 2011 Sponsors
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Welcome
to the Woodstock Lightning |
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Woodstock Lightning
is a travel baseball program based in Woodstock,
Illinois. Lightning teams play competitive travel baseball in the
McHenry County Baseball League, the Mid-Suburban Baseball League, and in
local and national tournaments.
Woodstock Lightning
offers competitive baseball programs that include competitive games, full
baseball rules (lead offs, stealing, dropped 3rd strikes, etc.), and
pre-season indoor training sessions at SportsCity Academy.
Our program fees are among the lowest in
the area yet we provide a full service travel program through innovative
fundraisers. And we have opportunities for players families to
reduce their costs to zero by offering credits for fundraisers and
business sponsorships you sell. We play on some of
the nicest fields in the entire area at Merryman Park, Bates Roskie and
even the Dream Field at Emricson Park for our older teams.
Like other travel baseball programs,
Lightning teams hold tryouts and form teams each August. Watch this
web site and the Northwest Herald newspaper for announcements of our
tryouts. And please contact me with any questions.
Thanks,
Mike Turner, President,
Woodstock Lightning & 2012 17U Team Manager
mike.turner@woodstocklightning.com
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Lightning LOTTO is Underway |
Lightning Lotto
has started. Link to the results page to see if you
are a winner.
Thanks to all who participated and
supported the Lightning.
Lightning Lotto
Results
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2nd Annual Lightning Dinner & Auction - Saturday March
10th |
Woodstock
Lightning will hold our 2nd Annual Dinner & Auction on
Saturday March 10th at Village Hall Banquets / Donley's
Wild West Town in Union, Illinois. This great event
features dinner / desert, cash bar, and lots of silent and
live auction items. We had over 400 people attend
last year. Tickets will be for sale in January from
any Lightning family. All monies raised go directly
to Lightning teams. We also will again make
donations to local high school baseball programs from a
portion of the funds raised from this event.
Do you have goods or services you can donate?
We are looking for donations from local individuals and
businesses for our silent and live auctions. Please
consider a donation. For more information, see our
Lightning Dinner & Auction donation letter.
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2012 Memorial Weekend Tournament |
Woodstock Lightning Memorial Weekend Classic Tournament
May 26-28, 2012
9U, 10U, 12U, 13U
Up to 32 Teams
Visit our
tournament page for more information
& to sign up
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Woodstock Lightning Teams & Coaches |
Lightning Select
17U -
Mike Turner
Lightning Select 17U is a tournament team of elite High School
players. This team will play in regional and national showcase /
collegiate tournaments. Coach
Turner has extensive travel baseball Manager experience and has managed
this team since 2006. Team success in 2011 includes his team
qualifying for championship bracket play in all 2011 tournaments.
In 2011 his team finished second twice and top 4 twice. His team
also finished in the upper 25% of all teams at showcase tournaments in
Notre Dame, Northwester University, NIU and at the CABA 16U World
Series. In five seasons, Coach Turner's overall travel baseball
record is 179-99 (.644) and includes six 1st place tourney wins and five
second place finishes. Coach Turner was previously a member of the
Woodstock Little League Board from 2003-2005, and still serves as a
travel baseball liaison to the Woodstock Little League Board.
Woodstock
Lightning 15U -
Dan Crook
Coach Crook is the Manager of the Woodstock Lightning 15U team
for 2012. Coach Crook is a baseball coach at Marian Central High
School. Coach Crook is also a long-time coach and volunteer with
the McHenry Baseball Association, as well as a key member of the CABA
World Series committee.
Woodstock
Lightning 14U -
John Eisenmenger
Coach Eisenmenger is the Manager of the Woodstock Lightning 14U
team for 2012. Coach Eisenmenger has lead this team since 2011,
and has been actively involved in coaching for the Woodstock Little
League and the McHenry County Hurricanes.
Woodstock
Lightning 13U -
Bob Salzman
Coach Salzman is the Manager of the Woodstock Lightning 13U
team for 2012. Coach Salzman lead this team in 2011 including a
successful trip to Cooperstown, and has been a long time volunteer in
coaching roles, and was the Assistant Manager for the Lighting 10U and
11U teams. Bob will be joined on his staff by Jim Herendeen as a
special baseball instructor & trainer for the 12U team.
Woodstock
Lightning 12U Red Team --
Mike
Tromotola
Coach Tromotola is the Manager of the Woodstock Lightning 12U
Red team for 2011. Coach Tromotola lead this team in 2011
including an appearance in the CABA 11U World Series, and was the
assistant manager of the 10U Woodstock Lightning team in 2010, and
has been actively involved in coaching in Woodstock youth sports.
Woodstock Lightning 12U Blue Team --
Jim Franklin
Coach Franklin is the Manager of the Woodstock Lightning 12U
Blue team. Coach Franklin has managed Little League
and Lightning 10U, 11U and 12U teams. Jim lead the 11U Lightning
team to a successful campaign in the 2011 CABA 11U World Series.
Jim is an active volunteer and leader in the Lightning program.
Jim is also a member of the Fox Valley Blue umpire association.
Woodstock
Lightning 11U - Rob Keene
Coach Keene is the Manager of the
Woodstock Lightning 11U team for 2012. Coach Keene has been
coaching baseball for more than 15 years coaching kids from 5 years up
to their teens. He has been very involved with the Crystal Lake
American Little League board being the VP of Umpires and VP of Major B
level for consecutive years. He has also been an umpire for the FVB.
Coach Rob has coached and been an assistant coach at the travel
baseball level and is a strong believer that great baseball players
are the ones that continue to practice the fundamentals.
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Woodstock Lightning Staff |
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Former MLB Pitcher - Juan Acevedo
Former MLB pitcher Juan Acevedo
is a special pitching instructor for the Woodstock
Lightning. Juan will
work with all Lightning teams during their 2011/2012 indoor training
sessions to train pitchers and work with coaches in preparation for
the 2012 season.
Juan Acevedo was in the
Major Leagues for 8 years with the Cardinals, Yankees, Mets, Rockies,
Marlins, and Tigers. A graduate of Dundee-Crown High School,
Juan brings a passion for teaching young pitchers, an incredible
knowledge of pitching, and a professionalism that will benefit
Lightning players and teams. We are very pleased to
have Juan Acevedo as part of our Lightning program.
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Marian Central H.S. Assistant Coach - Jim Herendeen
Jim Herendeen is a lead
instructor and trainer for the Woodstock Lightning. Jim specializes
in helping teams with defense, hitting, base running and coach
training. Jim has extensive experience providing
instruction to travel baseball teams, and Jim is an Assistant Coach at
Marian Central High School.
Jim will work with all Lightning teams
and players as a special instructor during the indoor training season.
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2012 Sponsorship Opportunities & Information |
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Woodstock Lightning is a
travel baseball program based in Woodstock, Illinois. The Lightning
offer a competitive and affordable travel baseball opportunity for local
youth baseball players. Business Sponsorships are critical to the success
of our program. We invite leading businesses to look at our
sponsorship program. Your generosity helps our players and families
realize their baseball dreams.
Click on the information packet link below to learn
more about sponsorship opportunities. YOUR SUPPORT IS CRITICAL TO
OUR PROGRAM AND GREATLY APPRECIATED!
2012 Woodstock Lightning Sponsorship
Packet (pdf)
We are grateful and sincerely appreciative of the
support provided by our sponsors. If you have any questions, please
give me a call.
Thanks,
Mike Turner, President, Woodstock Lightning & 2011
17U Team Manager
mike.turner@woodstocklightning.com
/ 815-245-2140
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Additional Woodstock Lightning Sponsors |
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Armanettis
American Legion Post 412
Buffalo Wild Wings
Innovative Component Sales, Inc. McGrath Press, Inc.
McHenry Specialties Nierman Landscape & Design, Inc.
Reina Imaging
(815) PAL-LETS, Inc.
Allstar Auto Repair Inc.
Carriage Builder Corp.
Farm & Fleet
GO-GO Realty
Gummerson Rausch Wand Gray Wombacher, LLC
Horner Eye Care. Ltd.
Ink-O-Dem
Innovative Control, Inc.
John White Stables
Majercik Physical Therapy
McHenry County Dumpster Service
Mike & Janet Wilson
Pork King Packing, Inc.
Quality Water Conditioning
Schneider, Leucht, Merwin, & Cooney Funeral Home
Spitson Masonry, Inc.
Strictly Striping
Top Notch Trucking
Victor Teresi
WMMA
Zank, Cohen & Wright, P.C.
Woodstock Lightning General Information:
Contact Mike Turner
262-422-5663 cell /
mike.turner@woodstocklightning.com
Woodstock Lightning
is proud to be a partner with the City of Woodstock & Woodstock Little League. Our mission is to
expand and elevate baseball in Woodstock.
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