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Darren Gurney
Camp Director
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7 Darren Gurney
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Camp Director |
| School: | Iona College Baseball |
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Rising Star Baseball Camp Director Darren Gurney has been running the camp since its inception in July of 1999. Coach Gurney has been teaching social studies at New Rochelle High School since 1996 where he specializes in teaching Economics to seniors and Global History to sophomores. His coaching/playing experiece includes the following:
Metro NY Cadets(ACBL) Field Manager. The Cadets team is comprised of elite college baseball players from top Division I baseball programs, including St. John's U., Fordham U., Stonybrook U., Florida State, Yale U., Princeton, and many more. The Cadets have had dozens of players go on to play professional baseball. The Cadets team won the 2005 & 2006 Kaiser Division titles and advanced to the ACBL Championship game. Coach Gurney was also named field manager for the 2006 ACBL All-Star Game in Lafayette, PA. Since receiving his first coaching position in 1992, Coach Gurney has coached over a dozen players who have gone on to play professional baseball.
Iona College Assistant Coach -
his responsibilities include coaching first base and working with outfielders, catchers and base runners.
New Rochelle High School - Head Varsity Coach
During his tenure at New Rochelle (1997-2005), Coach Gurney compiled a 124-67 record and captured the league title in 2000, 2004 and 2005. The team had its best playoff run in school history in 2003 and best record ever in 2001 with a 20-4 mark. In addition he was voted Section One Coach of the Year in 2001 and League “A” Coach of the Year in 1999, 2001 and 2004. Coach Gurney helped place over twenty players in college baseball programs and also took the team on its first ever trip to Florida in 1999 for spring training, which the team continued to take annually during his tenure.
Playing experience:
As a four year varsity letterman at Washington University he compiled a .389 batting average and a .542 on base percentage in League (UAA) competition.
Signed by Hvard Bulls (Austria) of European Professional Baseball League - March, 1995.
Played eleven years with the Pleasantville Red Sox (#7 ranked semi-pro team in USA - July, 2002) as centerfielder and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in November of 2005.
Education:
He received his B.A. in History from Washington University and his Masters in Social Studies Education from Teachers College at Columbia University in NYC.
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