Senior Winter Club 2024-2025

Program starts November 18th and finishes March 9th

Take Thanksgiving off (Tuesday/Thursday families choose another day that week to sub)

Take December 23-26 off

Senior winter club is for players aged 13-18u (what you will be playing next summer)

Program cost is $1,700

If you wish to pay by check to avoid Crossbar fees please do these two things.

1. Mail a check for the full registration amount to NLB 7104 Ohms Ln Edina MN 55439
2. Email petermacfarlanenlb@gmail.com and he will send you a code to register

Program Breakdown

All of our dome and facility training days are designed by Gene Larkin and Tom Nevers in collaboration with other members of the NLB staff. The Minnetonka Dome provides a fantastic facility for these high energy sessions. Defensive position-specific fundamentals and situations will be practiced. NLB emphasizes treating practices as game-like as possible in regards to speed and pace of play. The most important part of defense is a players footwork. This will be emphasized in all defense sessions.

Topics covered

-Moving feet correctly at all positions defensively

-Glove position when fielding the ball as well as how to move the glove through the fielding motion

-How our body moves towards a target on particular plays such as flips in the infield or setting for a tag in the outfield

-Game like reps with specific situations involved

-Each week will work off the previous session in a progression format trying to get players ready to go by high school tryouts or their association seasons

Program Breakdown



Week 1: Initial Testing 

Week 8: Mid-progam testing

Week 15: End of program testing

Topics covered

-Understanding how the legs and hips need to work to create bat speed and proper bat path. How to maximize practice time/using drills and equipment properly. 

-Proper way to attack inside and outside pitches. 

-Mental approach/ transitioning from practice to game time/controlled aggression in hitters counts.

-Situational hitting / hitting velocity/breaking ball adjustments. Hitting with two strikes/ putting ball in play 

-Each week we will have a plan laid out and detailed instruction for players in all 3 of the cages.

Typical Day

-Warmup

-Tee Drills

-Short Bat

-Weighted Bat

-Front Toss

-BP

-Machine Work

We have eight dome sessions and two NLB sessions for fielding this winter.

Minnetonka Dome Days (3-4pm)

January 5th, 12th, 19th, 26

February 2nd, 16th, 23rd

March 8th (Saturday and 2-3pm)

NLB Facility days (12-1pm)

February 9th and March 2nd

We have added two additional sessions to keep up with demand this year. Choose your time at checkout when you register.

Monday/Wednesday 4:30-5:30pm

Monday/Wednesday 5:30-6:30pm

Monday/Wednesday 6:30-7:30pm

Monday/Wednesday 7:30-8:30pm

Tuesday/Thursday 5:30-6:30pm

Tuesday/Thursday 6:30-7:30pm

Tuesday/Thursday 7:30-8:30pm

Saturday/Sunday 10:00-11:00am

NLB tests players exit velocities three times over the course of the winter. Higher levels of exit velocities do not always correlate perfectly with improvement as a hitter, but it is a strong indicator of a players ability to drive and hit the ball hard.