Doug Buysse is head coach at Indiana University South Bend and Adam Piortowicz is an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Western Michigan University. Two of his former Glenn catchers - the ones that he trusted to call all the pitches - are now college coaches.
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He has sent 36 players on to college baseball and had Josh Glenn (1995 by the Philadelphia Phillies) and Andy Groves (2003 by the Kansas City Royals and 2007 by the Colorado Rockies) taken in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.įour of Nadolny’s players have been chosen for the IHSBCA North/South All-Star Series - Glenn ( 1995) and Brian Stultz ( 1996) at Riley, Groves ( 2003) and Justin Gierlowski (2014 he did not play) at Glenn. In 24 years as a head coach (at both Riley and Glenn), Nadolny is 480-223. I understand kids and I read kids now better than I ever did. “Kids are a little bit more sensitive nowadays - to a point,” says Nadolny, a 1981 South Bend Riley graduate. While Nadolny - aka “Nud” - will raise his voice when he deems it necessary, he is not the yeller and screamer he was as a younger coach - a result of mellowing with age and with the athletes he’s now coaching. We’ve elevated some kids to a pretty good level.” We don’t have a lot of travel baseball players. “We share a lot of kids athletically (at an IHSAA Class 3A school with an enrollment around 600). “We get better at the year goes on every year,” says Nadolny. Nadolny wants his squad to improve as its progresses through fall ball to winter workouts to preseason indoor training to the first time they step outside in the spring. The coach knows that an average high school team with some confidence is going to be a superior team without confidence much of the time. “This is such a mental game and confidence in high school is everything. Let’s find something positive in what you do everyday. “If you had a bad day today, tomorrow’s got to be better for you. “‘Get better everyday.’ That’s what I say to these guys,” says Nadolny. Joseph County and 25th head-coaching campaign overall.
That’s the goal of veteran baseball coach John Nadolny as he prepares players for his 17th season at John Glenn High School in St.
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