U13 Blue – Bryan Patteson
Bryan is a passionate coach with great expertise on player development. He has been instructing and coaching since the age of 16.
Bryan has training in elite infielding, outfielding, and hitting mechanics. He is a certified diagnostic hitting instructor through a program called On Base University. Almost every major league ball team has staff and coaches trained in this diagnostic program. There are only 10 people in Canada with this training right now. Further to this, he is a member and contributing trainer to the hitting vault with coach Matt Lyle. He is a personal hitting coach to many pro players.
Bryan has a focus on nutrition, training programs, sleep, hydration, and psychology. He trains his athletes and players using a variety of skills sets including personality testing and learning style testing so he understand how best to reach each player.
Bryan believes very strongly in creating a positive and safe learning environment free from judgement or fear of failing. He seeks to create players who can learn to enjoy every aspect of the sport, even the challenging times. He has been fortunate thus far in his coaching career with numerous league championships on the boys and girls side achieved through a focus on full team development in all areas of the game.
U15 Blue – Troy Nayler
Troy is a certified NCCP coach with tons of experience and a long list of accomplishments all focused on long term player development.
Troy comes to London Lightning after service for 7 plus years in the Barrie Fastpitch programs, many of which were at the tier 1 level.
His development record has allowed his players to accomplish many titles including but not limited to PWSA select gold, PWSA Bronze and Sliver metals. Silver at the Ontario Summer games. At Top 20 finish in the World Series of Softball (USSSA) as well have both Silver and Gold medals at the Canadian National Championships.