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Baseball NL Announces 2013 Canada Games Coaching Staff

Baseball NL president John Janes has announced the coaching staff of the province’s 2013 Canada Summer Games baseball team. The Terra Novas’ head coach will be Sean Gulliver of St. John's and the assistant coaches will be Frank Humber of Corner Brook and Mark Healy of St. John's.

Gulliver was the assistant coach of the Terra Novas Games teams in 1985, 1989, and 1993. He was a coach with the Provincial Under 17 age group Selects team that competed in the National Canada Cup baseball competitions annually from 1989 to 1992. He coached the St. John's Senior Capitals for eight years and the St. John's Junior Capitals for seven years. For the past three years he has coached St. John's Minor Association Mosquito (age 11 & under) and PeeWee (age 13 & under) all star teams in Provincial, Atlantic, and National Championship tournaments. He has 33 years of playing experience in the St. John's Senior and Junior Leagues and for 20 of those years he was a member of the St. John's Capitals Senior and Junior all star teams. He is a member of the St. John's Minor Baseball Association in the position of director of the All Star team program and he is lead instructor of their spring indoor camps.

Humber has coached the Corner Brook Barons Senior and Junior all star teams to provincial championships during the 1993 to 2010 time period. He has coached Corner Brook teams at five National Championship tournaments, and he has coached Corner Brook Mosquito, PeeWee and Bantam all star teams in Provincial minor division competition during the past six years. He has been a pitcher and first baseman with Corner Brook all star teams from the Mosquito to Senior age divisions. He was the Miami-Fort Lauderdale High School Player of the Year in 1985. He played four years of Division I college baseball at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He was a member of Team Canada’s 1987 Pan Am Games team and was named winner of Baseball Canada’s Jimmy Rattlesnake Award in 1988 as the player on Team Canada who best represented the qualities of leadership and sportsmanship. He played on Team Canada at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics team, and was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers and played in their minor league system from 1989 to 1991. His pitching coaches have included former Major Leaguers Sand Koufax, Johnny Podres, Dick Bosman and Dave Wallace. His teammates have included Pedro Martinez and Mike Piazza.

Healy has been an all star catcher annually since 1983 with St. John's teams in the Mosquito to Senior age divisions in Provincial Championship tournaments, Atlantic Championships, and as a player-coach in numerous National Championships. He has played with and coached the Holy Cross team in the St. John's Senior and Junior Baseball Leagues. He has led the St. John's Capitals to a string of Provincial Senior Championships as a player and coach. He is president of the St. John's Amateur Baseball Association and he is an indoor spring training camp instructor with the St. John's Minor BaseballAssociation

Janes said “I am extremely pleased to have such high calibre coaches in place for our Canada Games Team. The coaches program of team selection, training, and competition will be first class and it is the young players who will benefit tremendously from their coaching. The team’s first out-of-province competition will be at the 2011 National Bantam Championships in Vaughan, Ontario in August.”

The baseball competition at the 2013 Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke, Quebec is for the 17 & under age group.

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2011 01 28                 11:40 a.m.