En Allemagne c'est la fête !!!
Posté : 08 févr. 2012, 14:15
Puisque le couple Franco-Allemand est à la mode...
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DBV Academy 2012 a big Success for German Federation, Organizers
A couple of years ago the DBV Academy was on the verge of disappearing. Too expensive. Not enough participants. No real interest in the German baseball and softball community. This has changed. In mid-January the 2012 edition marked a highpoint in the history of the clinic. A total of 250 registered participants plus another 50 coaches, players and officials traveled to the Ahorn Sportpark in Paderborn. While there is always room for improvement it turned out to be a major success for the German Baseball and Softball Federation (DBV).
Blessed with the state of the art facilities of the Ahorn Sportpark, which is a heavens playground for sport fans with the addition of an indoor baseball area, baseball and softball clinics, umpire and scorer’s seminars, press workshops, minor league camps and DBV meetings took place. Kids got the opportunity to play baseball with their idols Kai Gronauer, Martin Dewald and Simon Guehring. (En voilà une belle idée pour donner du rêve et en même temps du concret chez les jeunes. Ils peuvent approcher et jouer avec les meilleurs joueurs allemands. De quoi remplir les stades allemands quand l'équipe nationale joue...) Speakers Tom O’Connell, Reggie Smith, Tim Leveque, Greg Frady, Alper Bozkurt, Georg Bull, Guehring and Gronauer highlighted the baseball program. Udo Dehmel, Lilliana Rossetti, Christina Lipp, Stephanie Kuepers, Chrissi Bruckner and Nils Hachen talked to the softball coaches.
On Saturday evening during a “party” the DBV said farewell to Stefan Hoffmann, who however will remain involved in German baseball as vice president of a regional federation and as board member of the Rhein-Main Baseball Academy. Also awards for the best German players were handed out, which turned out to be a love fest for the Untouchables Paderborn with Jendrick Speer receiving MVP honors and Eugen Heilmann getting named best pitcher. Additionally Max Boldt of the Mainz Athletics got the best batter trophy and LeRoy Ewart of the Mannheim Tornados the rookie of the year award. (Et hop, on en profite pour remettre les récompenses des meilleurs joueurs du championnat allemand, pas con non plus comme idée...)
But we also have to talk about the things, which need to get better. While the number of coaches on hand with about 70 to 80 for the baseball part and 40 for softball, have been promising figures compared to previous years, it seems that German coaches and players of all levels don’t understand what great opportunity these clinics are. You can find new impulses for weekly practice sessions and are able talk baseball to some of the smartest coaches in the game. Obviously there is always the factor costs, especially for the relatively expensive DBV Academy.
Also, it seemed that the softball clinic used the facilities at the Ahorn Sportpark better than the baseball clinic. They moved around and kept participants on their toes, while the baseball coaches were stuck on a mobile stand (which also has its advantages), which wasn’t really comfortable. While the baseball program featured great pitching lectures by St. Louis Cardinals minor league pitching coach Tim Leveque, the scheduling involved too many changes to keep up due problems with speakers arrival.
Nonetheless the DBV Academy 2012 was a huge success thanks to the local organization by the Untouchables Paderborn and the BSV NRW, and of course the engagement of the International Sports Group and the German Baseball and Softball Federation. In January of 2013 everybody will return to the Ahorn-Sportpark in Paderborn. However the DBV Academy will be re-named into the “DBV Convention” to avoid any confusion due to growing emergence of German baseball academies in Regensburg, Paderborn and Mainz.
Un article intéressant (en anglais), Ca fait réflechir quelque peu..., surtout les premières phrases de l'article... A méditer peut être chez nous...
DBV Academy 2012 a big Success for German Federation, Organizers
A couple of years ago the DBV Academy was on the verge of disappearing. Too expensive. Not enough participants. No real interest in the German baseball and softball community. This has changed. In mid-January the 2012 edition marked a highpoint in the history of the clinic. A total of 250 registered participants plus another 50 coaches, players and officials traveled to the Ahorn Sportpark in Paderborn. While there is always room for improvement it turned out to be a major success for the German Baseball and Softball Federation (DBV).
Blessed with the state of the art facilities of the Ahorn Sportpark, which is a heavens playground for sport fans with the addition of an indoor baseball area, baseball and softball clinics, umpire and scorer’s seminars, press workshops, minor league camps and DBV meetings took place. Kids got the opportunity to play baseball with their idols Kai Gronauer, Martin Dewald and Simon Guehring. (En voilà une belle idée pour donner du rêve et en même temps du concret chez les jeunes. Ils peuvent approcher et jouer avec les meilleurs joueurs allemands. De quoi remplir les stades allemands quand l'équipe nationale joue...) Speakers Tom O’Connell, Reggie Smith, Tim Leveque, Greg Frady, Alper Bozkurt, Georg Bull, Guehring and Gronauer highlighted the baseball program. Udo Dehmel, Lilliana Rossetti, Christina Lipp, Stephanie Kuepers, Chrissi Bruckner and Nils Hachen talked to the softball coaches.
On Saturday evening during a “party” the DBV said farewell to Stefan Hoffmann, who however will remain involved in German baseball as vice president of a regional federation and as board member of the Rhein-Main Baseball Academy. Also awards for the best German players were handed out, which turned out to be a love fest for the Untouchables Paderborn with Jendrick Speer receiving MVP honors and Eugen Heilmann getting named best pitcher. Additionally Max Boldt of the Mainz Athletics got the best batter trophy and LeRoy Ewart of the Mannheim Tornados the rookie of the year award. (Et hop, on en profite pour remettre les récompenses des meilleurs joueurs du championnat allemand, pas con non plus comme idée...)
But we also have to talk about the things, which need to get better. While the number of coaches on hand with about 70 to 80 for the baseball part and 40 for softball, have been promising figures compared to previous years, it seems that German coaches and players of all levels don’t understand what great opportunity these clinics are. You can find new impulses for weekly practice sessions and are able talk baseball to some of the smartest coaches in the game. Obviously there is always the factor costs, especially for the relatively expensive DBV Academy.
Also, it seemed that the softball clinic used the facilities at the Ahorn Sportpark better than the baseball clinic. They moved around and kept participants on their toes, while the baseball coaches were stuck on a mobile stand (which also has its advantages), which wasn’t really comfortable. While the baseball program featured great pitching lectures by St. Louis Cardinals minor league pitching coach Tim Leveque, the scheduling involved too many changes to keep up due problems with speakers arrival.
Nonetheless the DBV Academy 2012 was a huge success thanks to the local organization by the Untouchables Paderborn and the BSV NRW, and of course the engagement of the International Sports Group and the German Baseball and Softball Federation. In January of 2013 everybody will return to the Ahorn-Sportpark in Paderborn. However the DBV Academy will be re-named into the “DBV Convention” to avoid any confusion due to growing emergence of German baseball academies in Regensburg, Paderborn and Mainz.