DARREN LESTER
Played baseball
- Englewood HS c/o 1987
COACHED BASEBALL:
- Sans Souci AA 2000-2012 and also Board member for 10 years
- Englewood HS Varsity Head Coach 2012-2013
- Nease HS JV Head Coach and Varsity Asst. 2014-2016
- NF Storm 2016-2017
- Bishop Kenny HS JV Head Coach and Varsity Asst. 2017-2019
- Creekside HS JV Head Coach and Varsity Asst. 2021- present
COACHING PHILOSOPHY
I have 3 goals/jobs as a coach and in this order:
1. Make them better young men.
2. Make them better teammates
3. Make them better baseball players.
I achieve these goals by expecting every player to follow these rules:
1. Respect : your parents, your coaches, your teammates, your officials, your opponents.
2. You will get out what you put in. Give a 100% you will get 100%
3. Baseball intelligence
4. Do the little things correctly and the big things take care of themselves.
5. Sacrifice your goals for the team goals.
FAVORITE TEAM
I have 2 favorite teams New York Mets / Tampa Bay Rays
FAVORITE MEMORY COACHING OR PLAYING
2004 coaching an 18U team that won the inaugural Barrett-Fletcher World Series, the championship game was at Tropicana field.
2007 coaching 12U Cooperstown team the whole experience was amazing.
2012 being offered my first HS job, Head Varsity coach at my alma mater Englewood HS.
2007 coaching 12U Cooperstown team the whole experience was amazing.
2012 being offered my first HS job, Head Varsity coach at my alma mater Englewood HS.