23U Coach -

18U Coach -Jean May TheBearMay@aol.com

This will be Jean’s seventh year with the Heat, and his fourth year as one of its head coaches. Prior coaching experiences include two years at the middle school level (2003-2004), a year with the first 10U Worthington travel team, several years of Parks and Rec. softball both in Worthington and his native Cincinnati. His spare time is spent as a moderator on the Ohio Fastpitch Forum, and working as the Heat’s administrator.

18U Coach - Tom Gianas thomco99@sbcglobal.net

This is Tom's third year as a Buckeye Heat Head Coach...For the past 6 years he has been coaching at Thomas Worthington High School both as the Head J.V. and Assistant Varsity capacities...Tom is now the Varsity softball coach for Thomas Worthington High School.Tom has been coaching for the past 16 years as Head Coach for 12U, 14U and 16U divisions as well as assisted w/numerous teams and camps...A long time resident of Worthington, married (Dena) with 2 daughters...

 

16U  Toledo Coach - Rob Gwozdz

15U Toledo Coach

15U Coaches - Jen Clark jclark032@hotmail.com & Emily Parks emma13parks@hotmail.com

14U Coach -Jim Clark buckeyeheatclark@yahoo.com

Jim will be in his ninth year as a Head Coach with the Heat.  After coaching 16-U and 18-U, he decided to coach 12-U in 2004.  His team moved to 14-U in 2005. He decided to coach a 12U team in 2007. Jim was the Head Coach at Big Walnut High School. He took over at Big Walnut in 2005 after having been the head coach at Johnstown for five years and winning 100 games.  During his five years as varsity coach at Johnstown, he compiled a record of 100 wins and 28 losses and won three consecutive Mid Buckeye Conference championships.  The three consecutive championships tie the all-time record for any sport at JHS.  Five of his former players from Johnstown are playing Div. I through Div. III collegiate softball.

13U Coach -Ted Mason  masonte@kenyon.edu

12U Coach -Amy McGhee mcghee_amy@mail.dublin.k12.oh.us   &  Heather Henneke

11U Coach -

Founder - Joe Abraham JoeA1010@aol.com

Joe was the founder and President of the Heat.  After coaching basically the same team from 1998 through 2003, he elected to move down to 14-U for 2004.   The team moved up to 16-U in 2005, playing a very competitive schedule, including Colorado Fireworks, Sluggerfest, Compuware and Stingrays.   The team won three fall tournaments and finished second in another.  In 2005, the team finished third at each Stingrays and Sluggerfest, 17^th out of 55 at Colorado Fireworks and 9^th out of 32 at Compuware, 3^rd at GAPSS, tied for 1^st at the Toledo Fast Pitch Classic and 1^st at the 18-U GFOD tournament, as well as a second place in Zanesville and a third in Fairborn.   The team finished 48-17.  Several of his players are playing in college.  Joe is a graduate of Ohio State University with a degree in Journalism and Political Science.  He served as Sports Editor at the Chillicothe Gazette before entering law school at Capital University. 

Joe has been assisted for ten years by Bob Scheetz, for six years by Eric Oliver and for four years by Jeff Childers. Eric has also served as the Head Coach at Cambridge High School, while Jeff is a long-time assistant at Johnstown H.S.

Joe Abraham founded the Heat in 2000 and was its President before accepting the Head Softball Coach position at Whitworth University in the summer of 2008. Abraham founded the Heat with his 16-U team in 2000 and watched the organization grow to two teams in 2001, four in 2002, and eight to eleven each year since. Abraham coached two Heat teams during his nine years and saw many of his players move on to play in college. Abraham was also the Head Coach at Thomas Worthington H.S. from 2003-2008. While he never imagined leaving the Heat, the opportunity to become a full-time college softball coach was too good to turn down. Whitworth University is located in Spokane, Washington.

 

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