Gardy O’Flynn
Tim Cates catches up with Gardy O'Flynn about his days in pro baseball and now 24 years teaching and coaching. Gardy is a nationally recognized throwing specialist with National Pitching East and Tom House Sports. He is also a graduate of the MCAA program from Concordia University Irvine.
Topics Discussed
- MLB for 7 years with the Texas Rangers
- Two Master’s Degree - MCAA (2015) and MSCE (2023)
- 24 Years Teacher - Phys Ed.
- Nationally known as a Top Pitching and Quarterbacks Coach
- Learning from Concordia is directly related to Professional sport athletes to the Junior PE students
- Experience from Minor League to Major
- Move from Professional athlete to Teacher
- Started working with Tom House Sports as a professional athlete
- Tom House Pitching Mechanics and development are based off Science - Transformational teaching
- Philosophies, Mechanics, Teaching - Posture based and importance of footstrike across all sports
- Baseball Primarily - National Clinics with Tom House Sports
- Talks about Dodgers Pitching Coach and staff
- Coaching all sports, Pickleball, Golf, Tennis, Baseball etc
- MCAA degree is relatable in all sports and in Phys Ed.
- Took the first class, MCAA 510 and was hooked with the entire program
- Choose to enroll in MCSE to continue learning in the Concordia University Irvine MCAA program
- Future of training will be with Mechanics Assessment to prevent potential injuries