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The Coaching Staff
is thankful for the wonderful teachers and staff at Kathleen
High School. We want to especially thank our Principal Cecil
McClellan and Athletic Director Gary Lineberger for giving us
the opportunity "to be the difference". |
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Head Coach Holmes: |
 I have been the head coach at Kathleen High School since July of
2007 but have been coaching at Kathleen Senior High School since
the spring 2005. When I came to KHS to coach I was
teaching elementary school, but joined the staff at KHS as a math teacher
in the fall of 2006. Before coming to Florida, I was a pitching
coach for one year at Salina South High School in Kansas. I
played one year varsity baseball at that high school and then
went to Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas. I became
a pitcher in college and worked hard to get better each day.
Because of my hard work and achievements, I was asked to go to
Europe in 1998 and 2000 to play for USAthletes International. I have lived in Lakeland since July 2002, and I have
been blessed with a wonderful wife named Yadira since Dec. 2005.
My wife and I are blessed with three wonderful children. |
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Varsity Assistant Coach Bard: |
 I joined the staff at Kathleen High School August 2007.
Previously I was an assistant coach at Winter Haven High
School. Baseball has been a big part of my life;
I have played organized ball since I was 5 years old . My
high school career at Winter Haven High School led me to play at
Saint Leo College. I owe my career to the coaches who have
instructed and inspired me. I look forward to giving back to
the game as a coach, and hope to inspire the many who play for
me. I am
blessed to be the father of twins, Hunter and Hogan. I hope they will one
day love to play the game as I did when I was a kid. |
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Assistant Coach Mancuso: |
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JV Head Coach Salimbene: |
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began coaching baseball here at Kathleen High School in 2005,
but then did not coach during the 2006 season. I am now back
teaching at Kathleen and could not be happier to be working with
the baseball program. I grew up playing baseball in Pittsburgh,
PA and attended Montour High School where I played 4 years on
the varsity team. I then attended Florida Southern College,
where I played baseball during my freshman and sophomore
seasons. I specialize in working with infielders, however I have
played just about everywhere on the field at one point or
another. My baseball philosophy is that I want to build quality
baseball players who do the LITTLE things, the RIGHT way. |
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Assistant Coach Hayden: |
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have been coaching and teaching at Kathleen High School since
the fall of 2006. In the preceding years before joining
KHS, I had lived in Japan for two years teaching English in High
School. During that time I was also an assistant coach for the
Shiroko High School baseball team. I graduated from Murray State
University, which is in Western Kentucky, in 2004. I met my wife
there, Jaime, and we have been married since 2003. |
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Assistant Coach Cress: |
 I have been coaching and teaching at Kathleen High School since
the fall of 2006. I was the head varsity baseball coach at
Schaeffer Academy in Rochester, Minnesota for six years. I also
served as head varsity basketball coach for seven years. I
graduated from Southeastern University. My wife, Tammy, and I
have been married since 1984 and have three wonderful children.
Aaron, my oldest is a student at Southeastern. Eric is a
prospective 2010 graduate of KHS, and Katelyn is a fifth grader
at one of the best elementary schools around! |
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