2012 Hats Off: Yellow Jacket For A Day 3rd Annual Ambassador Signing Day Legends Honored At Washington High School The Boys of Summer 2012 Middle School Baseball Signing Week – A Huge Success! Transforming and Connecting Communities Through Baseball Golden Ambassador Sponsor: Montag & Caldwell Ambassadors: Preparing The Next Generation of LEADership Transforming & Connecting Communities Through Baseball King Day 2012: A Day On For L.E.A.D. Volunteer Spotlight – Barbara Greene L.E.A.D. Honors Legacy Builders & Community Partners at Annual Dinner
2012 Hats Off: Yellow Jacket For A Day On May 9th, student-athletes in L.E.A.D.’s Middle School Baseball Development League had the honor and privilege of being Yellow Jackets For a Day during L.E.A.D.’s 3rd Annual Hats Off Event. During Hats Off, the LEADers were treated to a first class experience that included the following: Pizza and Cupcakes Access to the new Brock Indoor [...]
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3rd Annual Ambassador Signing Day On June 15th, L.E.A.D. will honor its 5th class of Ambassador graduates. L.E.A.D.’s mission is to provide inner city youth with access to higher education and civic engagement through baseball. And once again we will celebrate our mission in action as we honor our graduates. This event is sponsored by Belk and will be hosted [...]
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Legends Honored At Washington High School On April 28th L.E.A.D. celebrated its 3rd Annual Middle School Baseball Opening Day with the organization’s annual Inner City Youth Baseball March (ICYBM). The ICYBM is a platform for the youth in L.E.A.D.’s Middle School Baseball Program to demonstrate the strength of inner city baseball in Atlanta. Over 200 people turned out to support the [...]
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The Boys of Summer We can’t believe it’s almost here, but it is! L.E.A.D.’s Ambassador and Junior Ambassador seasons begin with the first game on May 15th. The Ambassador will play the East Cobb Saints at Sprayberry High School in Marietta. The Junior Ambassadors 1st national competitive tournament starts on June 18th where they will be playing the top [...]
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2012 Middle School Baseball Signing Week – A Huge Success! The week of March 12th was L.E.A.D.’s Middle School Baseball Signing in APS. For the second year in a row, L.E.A.D. in partnership with APS, have recognized up to 17 young student-athletes from Partner Middle School as LEADers. These LEADers have been competing on the diamond at Washington High School while positively representing their school [...]
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Transforming and Connecting Communities Through Baseball On February 25th, the Westminster Wildcats Baseball team served as instructors at L.E.A.D.’s middle school practices. The team had an opportunity to share their baseball experience with the Middle School LEADers and get a glimpse of the amazing raw talent that’s being developed and nurtured through L.E.A.D. Thank you to Coach Russell Wrenn, Stephanie Poje [...]
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Golden Ambassador Sponsor: Montag & Caldwell Golden Ambassador Sponsors provide enriching opportunities to L.E.A.D. Ambassadors. Some opportunities expose the Ambassadors to interesting sites and scenes around the city and others expose them to different career fields. On February 17th, the Ambassadors learned a little about the field of stocks and bonds from Montag & Caldwell. L.E.A.D. supporter, Bill Vogel (President/CEO of [...]
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Ambassadors: Preparing The Next Generation of LEADership One of the many community service responsibilities the Ambassadors have is to prepare the next generation of baseball/community LEADers in Atlanta Public Schools. The Middle School Baseball Development League provides them an opportunity to share what they’ve learned with the upcoming LEADers and become role models within their communities. Starting in January, the Ambassadors served [...]
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Transforming & Connecting Communities Through Baseball On February 12th, the L.E.A.D. Ambassadors and Middle School LEADers were guests of the Lovett Baseball Family. The Ambassadors and Lovett baseball team hosted a baseball clinic for LEADers from our six partner schools: B.E.S.T., Kennedy, King, Parks, Sylvan Hills and Young Middle Schools. The clinic was held on the Lovett campus at their newly [...]
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King Day 2012: A Day On For L.E.A.D. The Ambassadors and select middle School LEADers had the opportunity to serve as official marshals for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative March for the second year. Longtime march coordinator, Dewey McClain, made it possible for the Ambassadors to escort the dignitaries at the front of the march. So many of our young people only [...]
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Volunteer Spotlight – Barbara Greene Barbara Greene has been a L.E.A.D. volunteer for over a year and she absolutely loves it! Barbara is also a member of L.E.A.D.’s LEADership Council and provides performance coaching to student-athletes in the organization. She is hours away from a degree in Sports Psychology and specializes in helping athletes use positive visualization and other tools [...]
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L.E.A.D. Honors Legacy Builders & Community Partners at Annual Dinner L.E.A.D.‘s 2nd Annual Dinner With Champions Celebration at Turner Field’s 755 Club was held on November 20th, the organization honored Michael Russell and Sam Bacote with Legacy Builder Awards for their many contributions to the Atlanta Community. An Atlanta native, Michael Russell and his family are no strangers to civic leadership in the Atlanta community. [...]
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Middle School Baseball

Middle School Baseball

In order to sustain a high level of baseball talent in the City of Atlanta, it is necessary to develop a pipeline of professionally developed student-athletes. In 2010 through a partnership with Atlanta Public Schools (APS), L.E.A.D. launched the District’s 1st inner city pilot middle school baseball program.

The Middle School Baseball Development League provides professional baseball development along with academic support to ensure that players understand the importance of being a student athlete; this puts them on track to become viable college prospects in the future.

With its official launch in 2011, focuses on developing middle school talent for competitive play and providing positive out of school time (OST) experiences for up to 90 middle school student-athletes at 6 Atlanta Public School Middle Schools. A four-month baseball development league that runs from February-May and provides professional baseball skill development by L.E.A.D. trained coaches. The league currently consists of 6 partner schools: B.E.S.T., Kennedy, King, Parks, Sylvan Hills & Young middle schools. (February – May)

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