Developing college-ready players in North Texas
North Texas Baseball Club trains elite players in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Patrick Woods
The North Texas Baseball Club is dedicated to bringing out the best in its players. Since its founding in 2008, the elite training center has coached players age 7 through 18 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Patrick Woods, the director of coaching, said they teach culture, hard work, and the mental challenge of buying into the program and process they teach.
“We’ve given our kids the ability to use a facility where they have everything they need to succeed,” Woods said. “The quality of the equipment, the quality of the mounds, the weight room. We have the whole nine yards.”
That includes focusing not just on pitching harder – but the technique behind how to pitch better. They use three Portolite Game Mounds in their pitching lab and one in their infield room.
Woods said the Portolite mounds stay in place and have held up well despite intense use, keeping their pitchers focus where it needs to be: On the ball.
“They’re really nicely made,” Woods said. “They’re solid, they don’t walk. It really makes the situation better.”
The NTXBC facility also has a weight room, batting cages, and an infield area for drills. It’s a complete program, which includes coaching its coaches as well as its players for continued growth.
“I felt as if I came in a step ahead of others in the way my attitude was toward the game,” one college freshman said of the program. “I learned the importance of hard work and dedication.”
NTXBC is especially popular with high school athletes looking to stand out to colleges. The program boasts a 95 percent success rate of finding colleges for high school showcase team players.
Some even go on to the major leagues, including right-hander Clayton Beeter, who recently signed on with the LA Dodgers.
“NTXBC and the coaches worked hard to get me ready to move onto the next level and harder to get me recruited,” one college player said. “At the end of the process, I was very prepared when I actually stepped on campus as a freshman.”
Photos courtesy of NTXBC and Portolite.