Meet Your Pitching Coaches, Instructors and Coordinators…. 

Kyle Boddy

Boddy founded Driveline Baseball in 2012.At its training facility in Kent, Washington, Boddy coaches amateur and pro pitchers from a variety of levels on ways to increase their velocity and improve their conditioning.

Boddy has worked as a consultant and pre-draft analyst for MLB teams including the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cleveland Indians, and as a consultant for college programs including Vanderbilt, Oregon State and Coastal Carolina, which won the 2016 College World Series.

Paul Nyman

Meet “The Godfather” of new-age pitching mechanics. Paul’s work has influenced an entire generation of pitchers and pitching coaches.

His work has served as the foundation of many of the coaches and speakers at Pitch-a-Palooza. Paul was the first to coin the phrase of “intent to throw hard” and his work has been featured in countless publications.

Butch Thompson

Butch is the Head Coach at Auburn University.

He was named the 2014 Baseball America and American Baseball Coaches Association National Assistant Coach of the Year while at Mississippi State. He currently serves as the large-school representative for the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association and is an All-American committee member representing the South region for the American Baseball Coaches Association.

Widely regarded as one of the premier pitching coaches in the country, he has had seven of his former pitchers make Major League debuts since 2014 including Grant Dayton, Kendall Graveman, Jacob Lindgren, Chris Stratton, Jonathan Holder, Chad Girodo and Brandon Woodruff.

Tony Robichaux

Tony is the Head Coach at The University of Lousiana-Lafayette.

During his tenure with the Cajuns, which began in 1995, Robichaux has guided Louisiana to 12 NCAA Regional appearances (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016), four NCAA Super Regional appearances (1999, 2000, 2014 and 2015) and the 2000 College World Series.

Robichaux became the 51st coach in NCAA Division I history to post 1,000 career wins on Feb. 28, 2015 with a 6-5 victory in Birmingham, Ala. against the Alabama Crimson Tide. In 30 seasons, Robichaux has a career record of 1,080-690-1 and ranks Top 15 amongst active NCAA Division I head coaches in career victories

Paul Reddick

Paul spent 14 years of his life was spent as the Director of The Yogi Berra Museum baseball camp and has written several books including The New Rules Of Baseball Instruction and Co-Authored The Picture Perfect Pitcher with Tom House. He’s served as an associate scout for Pittsburgh Pirates, a state delegate for USA Baseball and coached in the Montreal Expo farm system.

His pitching course, The 90mph Club, is used by more pitchers than any other pitching training program ever created.

James Ogden

James is one of the top pitching coaches in the country and continues to smash every pitching record held at Lipscomb University where he serves as the pitching coach.

Without question, James is one of the top pitching minds in the country and what he brings to the table with his progressive work with The Core Velocity Belt has led him to consulting and speaking with kids and coaches across the country and continent.

Robert Woodard

Robert Woodard returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach in August and enters his first season as Carolina’s pitching coach in his second coaching stint at UNC. The all-time winningest pitcher in program history, Woodard posted a career record of 34-5 over four seasons as a Tar Heel.

Woodard was a three-time All-ACC performer and the 2006-07 recipient of the Patterson Medal, Carolina’s highest athletic honor. Following his professional playing career in the San Diego Padres system, Woodard spent the 2011 and 2012 seasons as an assistant at UNC before serving as the pitching coach at UNCW in 2013 and at Virginia Tech from 2014-16.

Christian Wonders

Christian Wonders is the pitching coordinator for Cressey Sports Performance-MA, owner of Elite Pitching Development, and works with pitchers ranging from 10 years old, all the way up to professional baseball.

He is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA, and Precision Nutrition Level 1 certified.

Jeff Passan

Jeff is the lead MLB sports writer for Yahoo Sports. Jeff Passan has covered Major League Baseball since 2004, including the past 12 years for Yahoo Sports.

He is the author of “The Arm,” a New York Times bestseller, co-author of “Death to the BCS” and he was named one of the best columnists in the country by the Associated Press Sports Editors in 2016