JON LESTER
PLAYED BASEBALL
- 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.
• Know and Play Winning Baseball with the intention of progressing to the next level and achieve their goals.
I achieve these goals by expecting every player to follow these rules:
FAVORITE TEAM
I have 2 favorite teams New York Mets / Tampa Bay Rays
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 MEMORY PLAYING OR COACHING:
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.