Outfield/Hitting Coach

Zev Bernard is from Los Angeles, CA and enters his third season on the Spalding staff. Coach Bernard serves as the primary outfield coach and helps Coach Shockley with the hitters. Zev spent 2008 & 2009 as a member of the Spalding baseball team serving as Catcher/DH and team captain. In his two year career, Coach Bernard started 79 out of 80 games and was a difference maker at the plate hitting 21 career doubles.

Once his college playing days ended, Coach Bernard worked as a hitting/fielding/catching instructor at Champions’ Baseball Academy in Louisville, Ky. Also during this time Zev was the assistant head baseball coach for the Louisville Saints 18U team, serving as the primary catching coach. Before playing at Spalding, Coach organized and ran baseball camps for two years for the City of Los Angeles Parks and Recreation Department. During this time he played baseball for Glendale Community College where he received the Leadership Award and led his team in batting average.