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COACHES
Fall Baseball Coaches
18U
Nathan has been a baseball coach on multiple levels for the last 19 years. His coaching spots have included Fort Lupton HS as a C team Coach, Windsor HS as a C team and JV Coach, Mountain View HS as a C team, JV, and Varsity Coach, Frederick HS as a Varsity Coach and McPherson College as as an Assistant Coach. Most recently Nathan has come back to Frederick to become the newest Head Coach there. Nathan is also an Associate Scout for the Detroit Tigers covering Western KS and Eastern CO.
18U
Coach Adams played at Skyline High school and won the state championship in 1986. He went to Otero Junior college and was an all american leading the nation in JC with 31 HR. Then drafted in 1989 as a catcher, he played for the Phillies in the minor league system for 4 years. He has coached competitive baseball the last 11 years. Now the assistant coach at Skyline helping with catching and hitting.
17u
Coach Platt spent the last 30+ years coaching baseball. He was coached at the college, high school, club and scout team levels. He has served as a head coach and as an assistant coach. He has also spent the last 20 years as an associate scout for the Philadelphia Phillies and the Washington Nationals. Evaluating players and reporting them to his supervisor. Coach Platt has worked multiple camps and showcases along with spending time on the board of directors of the Colorado Dugout Club.
Coach Trevor platt
16U
Coach Kraus graduated from Arvada West High School in 2015, and went to Barstow Community College in Barstow, California. There, he played for the 2015-2017 school years. From BCC he went on to McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas where he played the 2018 and 2019 seasons with the Bulldogs. He has coached for 2 summers for the NOCO Roughnecks, and was the head coach of Frederick High School's 16U Summer team in 2019.
coach Joe Kraus
16u
Coach Squire played 4 years of college baseball:
2 years of JC baseball at Barstow College (2-time first team all conference), 1 year of Division 1 baseball at Arkansas State University (Sun Belt Conference) and finally 1 year of NAIA baseball at Vanguard University of Southern California (Golden State Athletic Conference [GSAC]-- GSAC Gold Glove winner: 2B). He graduated from Vanguard University of Southern California. His first full year of coaching was hitting instructor for 16u summer program at Frederick High School-Summer 2019.
