CHARLES ATTARD ATTENDS COACHES CLINIC IN POLAND

16th November 2009

Charles Attard, founder of the Gozo Baseball Academy and Head Coach of the Juniors and Cadets teams in Gozo recently attended a Coaches Clinic organized by the Confederation of European Baseball, Major League Baseball and Little League Baseball.  This clinic was held at the Little League EMEA Regional Headquarters in Kutno, Poland. 

This three-day clinic was lead by MLB Envoy coach, Dr. Daniel Czech, who along with several coaches from the Georgia Southern University, organized several work stations and classes, teaching the coaches present about the physical and mental approach of the game.  Over forty coaches from all over Europe and Asia attended this interesting clinic.  Several techniques and drills were shown during this clinic in order to widen the coaches’ knowledge when organizing practices and also coaching during ball games.   

Attard has been coaching baseball in Gozo for eight years, and has coached the Juniors, Cadets and Senior teams. The highlight of his coaching career was in 2008 when Gozo won the National League Seniors Championship.  With this victory, Attard became the first Gozitan coach to ever win a national championship in any sport in Malta.

GOZO BASEBALL TRAINING SESSIONS

30th September 2009

Baseball training sessions will start as from this Saturday, the 3rd of October 2009, at the Seminary Sports Complex. Beginners are welcome. We shall start our preparations for the 2010 season, which will start in February. Contact us at gozotornadoes@hotmail.com or +356 79061482 if you are interested in joining the club this year.

Juniors Training (ages 12 - 16) - Every Saturday starting at 3pm SHARP

Seniors Training (ages 14 and up) - Every Saturday starting at 4.30pm SHARP

GOOD MONTH FOR BASEBALL IN GOZO

1st May 2009

The Gozo Tornadoes have been recently invited to two main sporting events on the island of Gozo, with club members helping out in both events. 

The first event, the “Healthy Village Weekend” organized by the Local Council of Victoria.  The Tornadoes set up a stand on the Friday and Saturday of this event, signing up some new young club members at the stand.  A batting cage was set at Independence Square, where over two hundred kids took a few swings against a pitching machine.  The cage also had welcoming visits by former parliament speaker Hon. Anton Tabone and Mayor of Victoria, Mr. Robert Tabone.  The second event was part of “Jum ix-Xaghra”, organized by the Local Council of Xaghra.  The batting cage was again set up for this event, this time in Victory Square.  A session of the Gozo Baseball Academy was held in the square, with the academy’s participants joining other kids from Xaghra in a baseball game.  A total of forty children participated.  Later in the afternoon, the Local Council organized a series of games for the village’s youths, with baseball being included in these games.  A total of four tee-ball games were played in this event, which eventually lead to various teenagers interested in playing ball. 

The two events were very important for the Gozo Tornadoes Baseball Club, as the club has been recently taken huge strides in their administration work.  The Tornadoes will be organizing various whiffle ball tournaments at Ramla Bay over the summer and should also be starting their very own co-ed slow-pitch softball team very soon.