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What has it been like being part of two World Series runs? See the adjustments they can make and pretty much evaluate their talent. At the junior college level, you can bring athletes in and have them go through a practice, so my biggest piece of the recruitment is when athletes come in, I put them through practice. We use Blast Motion for hitters, K-Vest for hitters.Īre you involved in recruiting or identifying talent?Ī little bit.
What it really does is it makes sure we’re not using the arm too much and putting a pitcher in a spot where he’s susceptible to injury. We utilize TrackMan, Rapsodo, Pulse, which is kind of at its most basic form a throw counter, but it spits out a bunch of stuff like arm speed, arm angle, torque on the elbow.
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We give them tools to put in their toolbox so when they’re out there competing, their toolbox is full of things they can utilize whatever situation they run into. Obviously, the game of baseball is very mental. He’s given us a lot of really good stuff. We worked with Brian Cain, who’s a guy who worked with Corbin Burnes with the Brewers. For me personally, I utilize the technology to supplement my coaching and get the most out of every individual athlete. We are very developmentally based at Lansing Community College. What has been key to the pitching staff’s success the last two seasons? The mindset we have to take into every individual battle is what we bring to the table as pitchers is better than what a hitter brings to the table. So we’re going to focus on the ones we can control. There are certain measurables that you can and can’t control in the game of baseball. The two words I always use with my pitching staff are compete and attack. I bring a very, very similar philosophy that I brought when I was a player. What kind of philosophy do you bring to the job? No, I did not other than being around every single basketball team that my dad ever coached since I was about 4 years old. I still have a major love for the game.ĭid you have coaching experience prior to this job? As I got to the end of my playing career, I still wanted to be around the game. 2 and it really made a lot of sense to me. Being the son of a coach, that was always option No. I had some injuries that kept me in the training room a lot, which kind of pushed me away from that setting. I wanted to become a physical therapist throughout my college days. Is coaching something you’ve always wanted to do? I sent my resume in, had a call two days later and things got rolling from there. I was scouring the internet on Indeed and the ABCA (American Baseball Coaches Association) website. That’s when Steven Cutter ended up getting the (head) job. So I was kind of in a limbo period for about two months. That head coach ended up leaving and going to Western Michigan. I was initially hired as the pitching coach in July before my first year. How did the opportunity at Lansing come about? NewsTribune sports editor Kevin Chlum caught up with Olson about his coaching career. This season, the Lansing pitching staff ranked eighth nationally in ERA at 4.20 and ranked 17th in strikeouts in the nation with 455. The Stars placed fifth last season and third this year.
Olson has been the pitching coach at Lansing Community College the past two years, helping the Stars to the NJCAA Division II World Series each season. When his playing career was finished, Olson wanted to stay around baseball, so he followed his father’s footsteps into coaching.
Bede multi-sport athlete Jarret Olson (holding trophy) is the pitching coach at Lansing Community College where he's helped the Stars to back-to-back NJCAA Division II World Series appearances. Bede for three years before transferring to Galesburg for his senior year.Īfter high school, Olson pitched for two years at Parkland College, helping the Cobras place top five in the NJCAA Division II World Series both years, before going on to pitch at Michigan State University.įormer St. Olson also had a very successful career of his own in multiple sports, playing golf, basketball and baseball at St. He remembers being in the gym as a very young child as his father, Scott, coached high school basketball. Jarret Olson has been around sports his entire life.
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