Meet The Team
Our team is committed to making a positive impact in young athletes and families in the Denver community. Founded in 2006 by Scott Vatter, our team of instructors has dedicated much of their lives to the game through their playing career and into coaching. These passionate instructors coach with integrity to ultimately help us guide our youth baseball and softball players to grow in skills, character, confidence and leadership.
Meet our staff below…
Scott Vatter
Founder
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Scott grew up in Colorado and has been coaching and instructing players for over 30 years. He primarily teaches hitting but can also teach infield. Scott lives in Highlands Ranch and has three daughters.
Playing Experience: University of Northern Colorado – (4 year starter in the infield, conference MVP 1993 and 1994, set several hitting records) Butte Copper Kings (Rookie ball 1995)
Coaching Experience: 20 + years high school coaching experience (All levels- Regis Jesuit, Highlands Ranch, Mountain Vista, Gateway). Former Associate scout for Atlanta Braves.
TY JACOBS
General Manager
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Ty is a Colorado native who has been around the game of baseball his whole life. His grandfather played baseball at Oklahoma (OU) and his father played Collegiately/ Professionally so Ty has been around the game since he could pick up a bat. He has coached at almost all levels and has the ability to work with players of any age!
Playing Experience: Cherokee Trail HS, UNC – Greeley (Played IF and Pitched), Seward County Community College (Middle IF and Pitched), Metro State- (Played MIF and Pitched)
Senart Templiers (FFBSC – France) (played SS and Pitched)
Coaching Experience: Collegiate Summer Ball for MHCBL and CCBL 4 years, Competitive Youth Teams
Current Head Varsity Coach at Rock Canyon High School
Tony Antolini
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Tony is a native of Colorado and spent thirty four years in public education as a teacher, coach, and athletic administrator. He has a passion for teaching the fundamentals of baseball and fast pitch softball to maximize an individual’s ability to truly enjoy the game. After his collegiate baseball playing career, Tony played competitive fast pitch softball for eight years.
Playing Experience:
Colorado State University
Coaching Experience:
Over twenty years of high school baseball with Head coaching at Regis and Rangeview High Schools.
Eleven years of private instruction, camps and clinics.
Former Recommending Scout for the Cincinnati Reds.
Daron Schulthies
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Daron has been around baseball his whole life. Originally from California, Daron moved to Colorado in 1996 and attended Heritage High School. He lives with his wife Danielle and has two beautiful daughters Payton and Kynlee. Daron currently works for the Highlands Ranch Metro District and enjoys golfing in his limited spare time. Daron also heads up HitStreak's brand new Fastpitch Organization!
Playing Experience:
Heritage High School 2006-2009
Hutchinson Community College- Juco World Series 2010
Metro State University
Coaching Experience:
High School baseball coach at Heritage and Rock Canyon High Schools
Varsity Head Girls Softball coach at Heritage High School (since 2018)
HitStreak Fastpitch Coach
Yvette Hendrian
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Yvette is a social studies teacher and softball coach at Eaglecrest High School. She is married to her husband Matthew and has two daughters, Alex and Kaitlyn. When not coaching or instructing, Yvette enjoys traveling and spending time with her family
Playing Experience:
Rangeview High School 1986-1989
UNC Chapel Hill 1990-1994- top 25 in the nation for ERA as a pitcher
Womens' Fastpitch Pro League
Coaching Experience:
UNC Chapel Hill Assistant Coach
Eaglecrest High School Head Varsity Softball Coach (11 years)
Private Pitching Instructor
Chris Dennis
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Chris is a Colorado Native, who grew up in Littleton, and graduated from Arapahoe High School in 2004. Chris started playing baseball at the age of 5 and has been around the game for nearly his entire life. He began his coaching career at the age of 22 and has coached levels ranging from college to youth over the last 15 years and has knowledge in all aspects of the game. Chris now lives in Aurora and has an 8 year old son Colby, and a step son Kayden who is currently a junior at Eaglecrest High School.
Playing Experience:
Arapahoe High School (OF,P) 2000-2004
Dana College (P) 2004-2005 2nd Team All GPAC Pitcher
Trinidad State Junior College (P) 2005-2006
University of Northern Colorado (P) 2007
Dakota Wesleyan University (P) 2007-2008 All GPAC Honorable Mention Pitcher
Coaching Career:
Director and Head Coach of Colorado Rage Baseball 2017-Present
Dakota Wesleyan University Pitching/Catching Coach 2008-2011
Mitchell Baseball Organization Teener Summer Team 14s 2008-2010
Arapahoe HS Varsity Assistant/Pitching Coach 2011-2012
Denver East HS JV Head Coach 2012-2014
AYL Spartans Head Coach 2015-2016
Ryan Kieckhafer
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Coach for over 20+ years. Mostly at the youth select level and a few years at the legion level for high school.
Skills: Great communicator who loves to teach and develop young players. Main focus is on pitching mechanics and mental approach to strengthen both physical and mental game. Offers video breakdown and then specific drills to improve deficiencies. Also available to work with fielding and hitting.
Highlights: 2020 Nebraska State Champions, 12u AAA. 2020 Millard United “Coach of the Year”
James Shields
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James is a Colorado native born in Denver, and growing up in Centennial. He played baseball and graduated from Smoky Hill high school before attending the University of Northern Colorado. He currently lives in Centennial with his wife and four children. If they are not on a baseball field, the family loves to travel, ski and root for the Broncos!
Coaching Experience:
Youth Baseball coach- 2014 to present
Rock Canyon High school JV Coach- 2023- present
Matt McHugh
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Matt joins HitStreak as a classic ‘Dad Coach.’ Growing up in the Midwest, he focused on football and baseball. An Architect by trade, Matt began coaching his two sons from tee ball into high school and turned it into a family pastime. His oldest son is currently a collegiate catcher. With a focus on catching, he has had wealth experience at the youth level and currently coaches at Regis Jesuit.
Coaching Experience:
Southeast Denver Baseball and Softball
-4x Cal Ripken State Champions
-2016 Cal Ripken World Series – Aberdeen, MD
2013-2018 AAA/Majors team
Regis Jesuit HS
2019-2021 Summer and Fall programs
2022-2023 Winter program and Spring JV assistant.
Tom SigrIst
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Tom is a native of Boise, Idaho who came to Colorado in 2015 to pitch at Colorado Christian University. After chasing professional baseball in the independent leagues, he took an assistant coaching position at Green Mountain High School.
Playing Experience:
Northwest Nazerene University 2012-15
Colorado Christian University 2015-17
(Senior year avg 10 K/9)
California Winter League 2018
Coaching Experience
Green Mountain High 4 years varsity assistant
Sean Jarrett
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Colorado-born Sean went from playing high school in the small town of Limon to world-traveling professional pitcher before settling back here in Centennial. His days are spent navigating the fields of finance and real estate, while his evenings are a whirlwind of chasing his three energetic boys, helping develop future major-leaguers, smoking meats and transforming houses one room at a time. If Sean could pick a superpower, he'd choose teleportation - because there's never enough time in the day.
Playing Experience:
Otero Junior College NJCAA - 59 IP,60 K’s, 11 BB’s
University of Arizona NCAA D1 - College World Series participant
Oral Roberts University NCAA D1 - Super Regionals participant, Mid Continent Conference All-Tournament MVP & Oklahoma Big 4 Player of the Year
Colorado Rockies - Drafted in the 20th round, played 6 years in the Rockies Minor Leagues
Brisbane Bandits (Australia)
Camden Riversharks (Independent)
Coaching Experience:
Pitching Instructor: D-Bat Frisco, TX
Pitching Instructor: The Alley Brighton, CO
Assistant Pitching Coach: Valor High School
Head Coach: Centennial Youth Baseball League - Rubber Ducks
Matt Blackwood
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Matt grew up in the Highlands Ranch area where he pitched at Highlands Ranch High School before heading off to South Mountain Community College in Arizona. Matt currently teaches and coaches at Rock Canyon high school. Matt enjoys the outdoors and hanging out with his dog Ellie.
Playing Experience:
Highlands Ranch High School - 4 years
South Mountain Community College - 2 years
Coaching Experience:
High school summer teams 2020-present
JV Baseball Coach Rock Canyon High School
Trevor Welling
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Trevor is a Colorado native, born and raised in Parker. He has been playing baseball from the age of 4 until his freshman year of college where he played at Midland University in Nebraska. He has a deep passion for the game itself and its history. Trevor is a recent graduate of Metro State in Denver with a bachelor’s degree in history and a minor in anthropology. His dream is to work in a Smithsonian institute!. Trevor’s coaching goal is to grow the game of baseball through the young ball players coming up.
Playing Experience:
Legend High School: 4 years
Midland University: 2 years
Coaching Experience:
Legend Summer Youth Camps 2 years
Jacob Love
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Jacob grew up in Southern California and Colorado, playing and coaching the game of baseball for over 30 years. He currently lives in Parker with his amazing wife and two boys. His free time involves coaching travel teams in ice hockey and baseball. Outside of that, he loves to travel and watch any kind of sporting events. He has been a flight paramedic and firefighter/paramedic for over 15 years.
Playing Experience:
Regis Jesuit High School 2 years
Chaparral High School 2 years
Feather River College (California) 3 years
** Left handed pitcher and 1st baseman
Coaching Experience:
Over 15 years of coaching experience
Current head coach for 13U HitStreak baseball team
Ashley Wilson
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Ashley is from Wichita, Kansas where she played softball at Mulvane High School and was awarded All-League honors for 3 years. She currently resided in Centennial where she works as an occupational therapist to autistic children.
Playing experience:
Hutchinson Community College
Colin Sweet
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Born and raised in Colorado, Colin began his baseball career at the age of 5. He attended Regis Jesuit High School for his Freshman and Sophomore years. Following that, he spent his Junior and Senior years at Cherry Creek High School from which he graduated. After high school Colin attended Iowa State University, where he was a walk-on member of the baseball team through the fall. Soon after Iowa State dropped the baseball program, Colin came home to Colorado and began coaching in 2008. Before joining HitStreak he coached youth with the Double Angel program, Slammers, and the Rawlings Team Colorado program.
He currently lives in Aurora with his wife Alyssa and son Branoch. The three of them enjoy spending as much time in the great outdoors as possible when not attending Branoch's many travel hockey commitments.
Nate Taylor
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Nate was born and raised in Colorado, and currently lives in the Aurora/Centennial area with his wife and 3 boys. Nate has coached at Eaglecrest High School for 11 years, 8 of which have been spent as a varsity assistant coach. He also teaches social studies at EHS. Nate loves coaching the physical and mental side of the game, but primarily coaches due to his passion of developing boys into honorable young men.
Playing experience:
Grandview High School from 2000-2004
Coaching Experience:
Eaglecrest High School (2013-present) - freshman head coach and varsity assistant several years
Centennial Youth Baseball Association (2021-present)
HitStreak Competitive team (2024-present)
Dylan Jutze
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Dylan is a Colorado native, born and raised in Highlands Ranch. He was a 3 year varsity starter at Columbine High School before starting his college career at Lamar Community College. After graduating from Lamar, Transferred to D1 University of Arkansas Pine Bluff. He ended his career at Wayne State College in Wayne Nebraska. During his college career, he spent time at Driveline HQ in Seattle training and adopting their philosophy into his playing and coaching career. He graduated with a degree in Marketing, and works in sales.
Playing Experience:
Columbine High School: 2016-2019
Lamar Community College: 2019-2021
University of Arkansas Pine Bluff: 2021-2022
Wayne State College: 2022-2024
Elaine Gerou
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Although Elaine moved from Michigan to Colorado in 2022 to chase her nature and ski filled mountain dreams, playing softball was her first passion that began as soon as she could throw a ball. Softball was truly one of the most fulfilling and fun experiences of Elaine’s life; she strives to share her knowledge with today’s players to help them have experiences as positive as her own.
Playing Experience:
Pitcher/Utility
College: Concordia University Ann Arbor 2013/2014 & Co-Captain for Schoolcraft College 2015/2016
Highschool: Plymouth High School 4 year varsity starter, All State Honorable Mention Pitcher 2013, fielded all 8 positions other than catcher in 2013
9 Years of Travel, including two teams finishing 2nd and 5th in the USSSA Fastpitch World Series in Orlando, FL, Elaine being Offensive MVP in 2010
Coaching Experience:
Primarily pitching, but also hitting, fielding, and base running lessons since 2009
1 year assistant coach for a 14U level team & 2 years assistant for 4th-8th grade school teams
Gabe Ramos
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Gabe grew up in Riverside, California where he played high school baseball and started his college career. He has a vast array of knowledge in the aspects of baseball, mental performance and strength and conditioning. He graduated with his Bachelor's degree in Kinesiology and is finishing up His masters in Psychology. He just finished with his position as the Graduate Assistant baseball coach at Colorado Christian University, his alma mater.
Playing experience:
3 Years at Azusa Pacific University (Freshman Debut)
2 Years at Colorado Christian University ( 2022 2nd team all conference, 2023 2nd team all conference, 2023 2nd team all south central region, Slugging percentage career record holder, 2nd all time home runs in a single season-19)
2023 Pecos league all star
2024 Pioneer league - Idaho Falls Chukars
Coaching Experience:
Graduate assistant Colorado Christian University - 1 year
Pat Hogarty
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After 17 years as a teacher and school administrator Pat is returning to his first love, baseball. Baseball has taught him many life lessons that have shaped his life and he is combining his love for baseball and experience in education to help future athletes unleash their potential. Pat brings experience as a player in High School and College, a pitching coach and educator to connect with young athletes and begin unpacking their potential. Giving athletes a solid foundation in mechanics, instructing how to move and control their bodies, and improving mental preparation for pitching are skills he introduces to your athlete and it will also lead to growth and success on and off the field.
Playing Experience
Holy Cross High School (1999-2001)
Queens College (2002-2006)
Stan Musial Valley Stream Colts (2007-2011)
Coaching Experience
Bayside Yankees Pitching Coach (2005-2007)
Rangeview High School Pitching Coach (2015)
Game Related Experience
Long Island High School Umpire (2010-2014)
Mike Hain
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Mike grew up playing baseball in Omaha, Nebraska and moved to Denver in 1997. Throughout his playing career he was primarily a catcher but also played outfield, Mike has three amazing kids and a passion for coaching. He has been coaching his daughter Emerson since she began playing softball and and is currently coaching one of the HitStreak 14U competitive teams.
Coaching experience:
Current head coach HitStreak 14U competitive team
Assistant Coach Colorado Angels 2021-2023
Head coach CCC competitive team 2021
Facilitator and lead coach CCLL winter camp 2023
Nicole Beckett
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Nicole, or Coach Cole, calls Colorado home alongside her husband and two kids. During the day she works for the State of Colorado Judicial system after receiving her Master's degree from University of Denver in Forensic Psychology. She believes that you can be a boss in class, as well as on the field.
Playing Experience:
College: D1 pitcher at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and later for New Mexico State University.
High School: A 2007 graduate of Conifer High School lettering all four years. Colorado All-State, 3x All-Conference, 3x team MVP. She played on Colorado Bullets for travel ball and was a Triple Crown Sparkler USA All-Star.
Coaching Experience:
18+ years as private pitching instructor
Hitstreak Fastpitch Coach
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