ABCA Hall of Famer

Dave Keilitz started school at Central Michigan University as a student-athlete in the fall of 1960. He became Central’s first, 1st Team All-American baseball player in 1964. He established 19 game, season, and career hitting records for the Chippewas.
He served as a graduate assistant in 1964-65 and was then appointed the freshman baseball coach the following year.
In June of 1970, he was appointed head coach at Central.In his twenty years of coaching, Keilitz never had a losing season, and in his 14 years as head coach, he had a 456-203 record.
His .692 win-loss percentage was the best of all Division I coaches in the NCAA Midwest region during the period he coached and ranks in the top 30 of all coaches nationally.
He was named MAC “Coach of the Year” several times, winning several MAC titles, and had seven of his teams in the NCAA Championship tournament.
Keilitz coached eight All-Americans, and 51 of his players signed professional contracts; seven of which played in the major leagues.In 1981, Keilitz led the fundraising effort to raise money for a new baseball stadium.
He did so again in 2001-2002 to help build the present stadium, which is one of the finest college baseball facilities in the country.

After the 1984 season, when Central won the MAC and finished second in the NCAA Regionals, and rated 16th in the country, Keilitz was appointed Director of Athletics at his alma mater.As Athletic Director, Keilitz upgraded all CMU athletic facilities and raised a considerable amount of money for the athletic program. During his tenure, every Central head coach was named “MAC Coach of the Year” at least one time.As Athletic Director, Keilitz also served on the NCAA Council and served on numerous NCAA committees.
He chaired the NCAA Baseball Committee, the Committee to “Fine Tune” legislation from the 1991 NCAA “Reform” convention and the NCAA Federation of Rules by Sport Committee.

In June of 1994, Keilitz became the Executive Director of the American Baseball Coaches Association, which consists of over 6,700 coaches from around the world.
Baseball America magazine rates Keilitz as one of the ten most influential people in baseball outside of the major leagues.Keilitz has been inducted into the ABCA Hall of Fame, the Midland County Sports Hall of Fame, the Central Michigan University Hall of Fame, the NAIA Hall of Fame and the Mid-American Conference Hall of Fame.

In 2002, he received the prestigious “Lefty Gomez Award,” which is the highest award in amateur baseball. In April of 2002, the clubhouse at the new CMU baseball stadium was named after Keilitz and his wife, Sue. Keilitz was selected as the 2002 CMU Homecoming Grand Marshal.
In December of 2005, Keilitz was CMU’s commencement speaker and was honored by his alma mater with the honorary degree, Doctor of Public Service.
In 2007, Dave and Sue Keilitz chaired the “major gift division” for a new cancer center at the Central Michigan Community Hospital; a campaign that raised over seven million dollars.
Keilitz presently serves as Chair of the McLaren Central Michigan Hospital Foundation, as well as their Board of Directors, and also serves on the CMU Development Board and the Mt. Pleasant Area Community Foundation Board of Directors.

Keilitz is married to the former Susan Prine and they have two sons, Craig and Brad. Craig is the Director of Athletics at High Point University and Brad is Manager of Customer Development for Nestle Water, North American Corporation. They also have 4 granddaughters and one grandson. 

Minnesota Twins
Minor League Hitting Coordinator

Born October 6, 1956...wife RexAnn, son Slater, daughters Sheridan and Sutton...resides in Tulsa,
Springman begins eighth season as minor league hitting coordinator after serving as hitting coach at Triple-A Rochester in 2005.
Hitting coach at Triple-A Salt Lake 1997-2000.
Played on Team USA during the 1977 World Cup Games in Nicaragua...
Selected by Pittsburgh in first round of 1977 Secondary Phase free agent draft.
Named Sporting News first team College All-American Shortstop in 1978.
Signed with California in seventh round of June 1978 free agent draft from Oral Roberts University.
Named Topps’ Single-A Shortstop of the Year in 1979.
Coach of 1992 NCAA Division I National Champions at Pepperdine.
Served as associate scout in Chicago Cubs organization 1995-96.
1985 graduate of University of Oklahoma with a degree in Physical Education.
1994 graduate of Azusa Pacific University with a master’s degree in Education.

Fontys University for Applied Science

Frans Bosch earned a degree in Physical Education in 1977.

Since 1980 he worked in athletics, coaching elite sprinters and Olympic high jumpers and for some years as the national coach for jumping events.

Since 2005 Bosch teaches at the Fontys University for applied sciences in sports, mainly in the field of anatomy, biomechanics, strength training and motor learning.

Bosch has given numerous presentations on training related topics all over the world and frequently works internationally as a consultant in sport and as conference speaker on training related subjects. Clients in recent years are the English Institute of Sports, Wales National Team Rugby and others.

Together with Ronald Klomp he wrote “Running, biomechanics and exercise physiology applied in practice”, published in the Netherlands in 2001 and translated in English in 2005.

In 2012 “Krachttraining en coördinatie, een integratieve benadering” (Strength training and coordination, an integrated approach) was published in the Netherlands.

A sport scientist, Bosch has made his entry in the baseball world after the Dutch Federation knocked on his door to help develop new coaching strategies for the Dutch Baseball Academies.

A renowned speaker all over the world, Bosch was introduced to the baseball crowd at the ECC in Rotterdam where he spoke in 2011 and 2012, busting many coaching myths of a tradition-heavy sport.

MLB International
Strength & Conditioning Coordinator

In 1994 Jeff Krushell graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Kinesiology from the University of Calgary. While attending school he worked as a Strength and Conditioning Coach with the varsity teams as well as professional and nationally ranked athletes.

It was here he started his first company Performax Strength and Conditioning.

Moving to Edmonton in 1996 he worked as the Director of Athletic Development at the Edmonton Sport Institute, training athletes from many sports and developing camps and school programs that still exist today.

Late in 1997 Jeff moved on to the Royal Glenora Club of Edmonton as Director of Sport Performance Development overseeing the strength and conditioning for the Elite Athlete Training Center.


In February of 1998, Jeff was hired by the Toronto Blue Jays as the Minor League Strength and Conditioning Coordinator where he stayed for two full seasons before moving to the Major League Club in 2000. Here, Jeff oversaw the entire strength and conditioning program of the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball organization. Also, during this time he became very involved with Baseball Canada and Major League Baseball International promoting strength and conditioning to athletes and coaches.

During the spring of 2003 Jeff stepped down from the Blue Jays to pursue a private business “Krush Sport Performance”.Jeff Krushell, owner of Krush Performance, consults with Major League Baseball International overseeing the Strength and Development program on a global scale.


Jeff has consulted with the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL and works with a handful of elite athletes at his home base in Edmonton.

Also, as the Director of Human Sport Performance, promoting cutting edge sport science and drug free sport,Jeff Krushell has developed a professional network of sport contacts that includes Athletes, General Managers, Coaches and Sport Scientists from every discipline, every level of sport and reaching all around the world.