Senior Winter Club
The Senior Winter Club program at NLB is the premier program for training at our facility. It runs for seventeen weeks over the winter and is designed to help players ages 13-18u achieve their baseball goals. Players will get thirty hitting one sessions and ten defensive dome sessions over the duration of the program. Fortis Performance Training and GameStrong will be included with the players registration.
Dates
Program starts November 16th and finishes March 14th
Take the Wednesday and Thursday of Thanksgiving week off.
Take the week of December 21-27 off
Ages
Senior winter club is for players aged 13-18u (what you will be playing next summer)
Hitting Days and Times Options
We have added two additional sessions to keep up with demand this year. Choose your time at checkout when you register.
Monday/Wednesday 4:30-5:30pm
Monday/Wednesday 5:30-6:30pm
Monday/Wednesday 6:30-7:30pm
Monday/Wednesday 7:30-8:30pm
Tuesday/Thursday 5:30-6:30pm
Tuesday/Thursday 6:30-7:30pm
Tuesday/Thursday 7:30-8:30pm
Saturday/Sunday
Saturday 10:30-11:30am
Sunday 8:30-9:30am
Fielding Days and Times
There are ten sessions for fielding.
Minnetonka Dome:
December 20th
Edina Dome:
January: 3rd, 17th, 31st
February: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
March: 7th, 14th
All sessions take place from 7-8am
FORTIS
Fortis Performance Training at NLB is designed to help baseball athletes improve their baseball-specific strength, speed, and overall performance. Click here to find the Fortis webpage on our site for program details.
NLB has partnered with Fortis to run their performance training program. Fortis brings highly knowledgeable and experienced trainers and a program designed specifically for YOUR athlete. Programs are tailored to athletes by age, experience, and ability. As players get acclimated with the Fortis training staff adjustments to programs are made if necessary. Speed, strength, quickness, and agility are often the most important components to an athlete's success. Oftentimes they are overlooked. We are trying to change that by bringing in Fortis to help our athletes.
GameStrong
GameStrong is a program that integrates performance psychology directly into your team and practice structure, so athletes train their mental game alongside physical skill building.
GameStrong includes
-Training Modules
-Guided Journaling
-Sport Specific programming
-Training that is personalized to each athlete for year-over-year development
Fielding Practice Agenda
Program Breakdown
All of our dome and facility training days are designed by Gene Larkin and Tom Nevers in collaboration with other members of the NLB staff. Defensive position-specific fundamentals and situations will be practiced. NLB emphasizes treating practices as game-like as possible in regards to speed and pace of play. The most important part of defense is a players footwork. This will be emphasized in all defense sessions.
Topics covered
-Moving feet correctly at all positions defensively
-Glove position when fielding the ball as well as how to move the glove through the fielding motion
-How our body moves towards a target on particular plays such as flips in the infield or setting for a tag in the outfield
-Game like reps with specific situations involved
-Each week will work off the previous session in a progression format trying to get players ready to go by high school tryouts or their association seasons
Hitting Practice Agenda
Program Breakdown
Week 1-2: Initial Testing
Week 8 or 9: Mid-program testing
Week 16-17: End of program testing
Topics covered
-Understanding how the legs and hips need to work to create bat speed and proper bat path. How to maximize practice time/using drills and equipment properly.
-Proper way to attack inside and outside pitches.
-Mental approach/ transitioning from practice to game time/controlled aggression in hitters counts.
-Situational hitting / hitting velocity/breaking ball adjustments. Hitting with two strikes/ putting ball in play
-Each week we will have a plan laid out and detailed instruction for players in all 3 of the cages.
Typical Day
-Warmup
-Tee Drills
-Short Bat
-Weighted Bat
-Front Toss
-BP
-Machine Work
Testing
NLB tests players exit velocities three times over the course of the winter. Higher levels of exit velocities do not mean that you are a better hitter. However, hitting the ball harder is highly correlated with success in hitting.
Cost
Program cost is dependent on which tier of the program you are wishing to enroll in.
Tier 1: Winter Club + 16 Fortis Sessions = $2,120
Tier 2: Winter Club + 32 Fortis Sessions = $2,376
Tier 3: Winter Club + 48 Fortis Sessions = $2,568
Tier 4: Winter Club + 48 Fortis Sessions + 3rd day of hitting (on Saturday or Sunday) = $2,950
If you wish to pay by check to avoid Crossbar fees please do these two things.
- Mail a check for the full registration amount to NLB 7104 Ohms Ln Edina MN 55439
- Email petermacfarlanenlb@gmail.com and he will send you a code to register
Senior Winter Club 2026-2027
Click here to register for NLB's Senior Winter Training Program. Please read carefully so you know what each tier of registration includes before signing up. Weekend fielding is included with all registrations.
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