Koa is excited to welcome Echoes of Nature to our summer camp field! As nature is increasingly removed from our lives with each passing year, it becomes all the more important to remind ourselves and our children about its beauty and benefits! The programs are based on natural science topics with the use of LIVE native…
The benefits of youth sports have long been heralded across America. Today, more than 30 million adolescents and children around the country participate in some athletic activity, be it individual or in a team. The physical health benefits of an active childhood are known and documented, but did you know that sports can improve our…
From player, counselor, coach, and now to the front office, Andrew has ridden the Green Wave from the very beginning. He pitched at Georgetown Prep and then went on to Johns Hopkins University where he locked down the 9th inning as the closer. His coaching experience extends from youth baseball all the way up to…
Pat Hisle was a two-year starting shortstop at Walt Whitman HS. As a senior, he batted .418 with 19 RBIs, a home run, and five triples. Pat was named All Gazette First Team and was selected as a member of the North Team for the Brooks Robinson All-Star Game. After being named the no. 20…
Eric Brodkowitz started with Koa in the fall of 2010 as a 14U travel player. Eric was a pitcher, shortstop, and outfielder. As he progressed through the Koa system (eventually 10 seasons) he started focusing on pitching. Eric, a 2014 Winston Churchill graduate is now at Yale University and is a starting pitcher. During his…
Raised in Warwick, RI, Steve White was a 3-season varsity athlete at Warwick Veterans Memorial HS, lettering in football (3 yrs), basketball (2yrs), and track and field (1yr). A scholar-athlete, Steve was a 2-time Academic All Division and a 1st Team All Division Football Player, as well as an All-City as defensive tackle. At center…
Coach Evers Burns has been involved in basketball for more than 30 years, playing and coaching. Evers attended Woodlawn High School in Baltimore and, in addition to basketball, was a heavily recruited All American football player. Because basketball was his true passion, he decided to stay local and pursue his dream of playing basketball for…
Mike Brown, is a native of Davis, California and grew up playing football, baseball and basketball. In high school he excelled in football and baseball, earning 4 separate All Conference honors. Mike focused on baseball in college, first playing for the Cuesta College (San Luis Obispo, CA) Cougars. During his 2 years at Cuesta, Mike…
Happy Monday! This weekend sparked a great memory — the three year anniversary of when I embarked on one of the biggest physical (and mental) challenges of my life, running the Marine Corps Marathon. My time was respectable for a first time marathon runner (or so I’m told), but my goal was to finish and…
Happy Monday — which means another opportunity for me to write about youth sports trends and what I saw over the weekend. I always like looking at the silver lining and I got to again after a Koa Baseball Team unfortunately lost a championship game yesterday and took second place. However, there are so many…
