CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY

Hilliard Davidson Baseball Championship History (Prior to the 1997/1998 School year we were known as Hilliard High School) BASEBALL FRANKLIN COUNTY: 37 45 48 MID 6: 54 MID 8: 57 65 71 72 O.C.C.: 76 78 79 81 92 95 98 04 07 08 DISTRICT: 62 85 89 95 96 97 04

HILLIARD
D BASEBALL 2014 A V I D S O N
Bob Feller Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterdays success or put its failures behind and start over again. Thats the way life is, with a new game every day, and thats the way baseball is.

Thank You!

Linda Kilgore 614-351-2362

COACHING STAFF
Justin Swallie - Varsity Head Coach
Justin Swallie is currently in his 9th year teaching Social Studies at Hilliard Weaver Middle School, and is in his 9th season coaching high school baseball in Hilliard. He spent his first 4 years with the freshman program at Hilliard Davidson High School. He moved over to coach at Hilliard Bradley High School for two years and worked with the Varsity program. He is currently in his 3rd year at Davidson working with the Varsity baseball team. He has spent the last 2 seasons assisting legendary coach Jim Dougherty, and begins his 1st season as head coach. He also coaches 7th grade football at Weaver Middle School. He is a graduate of Hilliard Darby High School and Otterbein University. He currently lives in Powell and has a 5 year old son named Max. Dave Swallie is a 7th Dave Swallie -Varsity Asst. Coach grade social studies teacher at Weaver Middle School. This is his 26th year of teaching and coaching in Hilliard. He has spent the last 16 years as a varsity assistant at Hilliard Darby High School. He also coaches 7th grade football at Weaver Middle School. Dave is a graduate of The Ohio State University and Marygrove College. He lives in Hilliard with his wife Julie and has two sons, Justin and Eric. He also has a grandson Max. Dave is excited to be part of the Davidson Wildcat Baseball program.

SENIORS 2014
Jersey Number: 9 Position: Pitcher, First Base School Activities/Awards: National Honor Society, Renaissance College: Ashland University, (Major: Criminal Justice) Career: FBI Agent Favorite Baseball Memory: Throwing No Hitter Freshman year. Quote: Its not about the size of the dog in the fight, but about the size of fight in the dog. LUKE SMITH Jersey Number: 7 Position: Short Stop Athletic Awards: Baseball-Varsity Letter; Football-All Conference First Team, First Team All District, Honorable Mention AllOhio, Member of All-Metro Team, Member of This Week News Super 25 School Activities/Awards: Honor Roll (grades 9-12) College: John Carroll University (Major: Business) Favorite Baseball Memory: Going to Ripken Experience Quote: Hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard.

NICK STULL

Tyler BackstromVarsity Asst. Coach

Coach Backstrom is a graduate of Hilliard Davidson High School, where he played football, basketball, and baseball and is a member of Davidson's Athletic Hall of Fame. In baseball, he was a member of teams that won 2 league titles outright, a district runner-up, district championship, and Regional Runner-up. He continued his baseball career at Ohio University where he pitched and played first base earning 3 Varsity letters. He is currently finishing up his degree in Middle Childhood Education at The Ohio State University. He has coached Varsity Football for the past 4 years and a 15 year old summer baseball team. He will continue in that role this summer.

SENIORS 2014
Jersey Number: 6 Position: Catcher Athletic Awards: Baseball-Varsity Letter, Special Mention OCC, Captain; Football-2 Year Varsity Letter, Sportsmanship Award School Activities/Awards: Academic Letter College: Capital University (Major: Accounting) Career: Accounting/Finance Favorite Baseball Memory Beating Central Crossing in 2013 Playoffs. Quote: Hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard.

COACHING STAFF
Doug Biddinger JV Coach This is Coach
Doug Biddingers 22nd season as an assistant coach for the Hilliard Davidson baseball team. He teaches AP US History, American History Through Film, and Government in the Social Studies Department at Davidson, and with baseball has served as a JV assistant, freshman assistant, freshman head coach, and for the past 13 seasons as JV head coach. He is an alumnus of Ohio State University, with a Bachelors Degree in Secondary Social Studies Education and a Masters in Sports and Exercise Management. He resides in Hilliard with wife Judy, and sons Ben and

NICK ISKE

Jeremey Scally Freshman Coach Coach Jeremey Scally

Jersey Number: 5 Position: Third Base Varsity Sports: Football Athletic Awards: Football-Two Time First Team All OCC, Two Time First Team AllDistrict, All-Metro Honorable Mention, First (Junior) and Second (Senior)Team All-Metro, All-State Honorable Mention (Junior), Second Team All-State (Senior) College: Capital University Favorite Baseball Memory: No hitter

JARED JOHNS

enters his 7th year in the Davidson baseball program, and 5th as the Head Freshman Coach. Jeremey is a 2000 graduate of (Sandusky) Perkins High School where he played football, wrestling and baseball. He is a 2005 graduate of The Ohio State University where he earned his B.A. in English. In 2007 he received his postgraduate degree from Ashland University, He has been a teacher in the English Department for 6 years and also coaches Varsity football at Davidson. Coach Scally and his wife Kasie, also a teacher in Hilliard, currently reside in Dublin. Coach Bauer enters his 9th year in the Davidson baseball program, and fourth as the Asst. Freshman Coach. He has been a teacher in the business department at Davidson for 13 years and has also served as an asst. in the basketball program. Coach Bauer earned his degree from Bowling Green State University in 2001 and Masters degree from Marygrove College in 2006. He is a 1996 graduate of Hilliard High School, where he played baseball under Coach Dougherty and also played basketball. Brett resides in Plain City with his wife Sarah, and two sons Garrett (6) and Jake (4).

Brett Bauer -Freshman Coach

Jersey Number: 3 Position: Infield Athletic Awards: Baseball-Varsity Letter College: Capital University (Major-Business) Favorite Baseball Memory Beating Nick Iske as 9 year olds. Quote: "Curls for the girls."

JB MILES

VARSITY

SENIORS 2014
Jersey Number: 16 Position: Pitcher, Outfield Other Varsity Sports: Football College: Undecided Favorite Baseball Memory: Playing with Jared Johns sophomore year and losing only one game.

Row One: JB Miles, Luke Smith, Nick Stull, Jared Johns, Nick Iske, Robbie Gilliland, Row Two: Travis Brown, Blake Eckert, Clayton Steele, Patrick Lavelle, Bobby Lively, Charlie Tighe, Reed Harster, Row Three: Coach Biddinger, Coach Backstrom, Brent Thomas, Nathan Ellis, Tristan Freeman, Coach D. Swallie, Coach J. Swallie.

TRAVIS BROWN

Jersey Number: 28 Position: Pitcher, 1B, Outfield Other Varsity Sports: Bowling College: Ohio University (Major: Undecided) Favorite Baseball Memory: Meeting Cal Ripken Jr. Quote: If youre not first, youre last

ROBBIE GILLILAND
Jersey Number: 1 Position: Center Field, Outfield Baseball Awards: Varsity Letter Winner School Activities: Academic Scholar, Hilliard Youth Council (7 years), Ski Club, College: Kent State University( Major: Business Management) Career: Run a marketing firm/business Favorite Baseball Memory: Chip Hollingsworth #Incrediball Quote: The apple doesnt fall far from the tree.

REED HARSTER

MIDDLE SCHOOL ROSTER

JUNIOR VARSITY

Row 1: Ryan Tuchow, Ben Biddinger, Justin Woodford, Colton Miles, Jacob Lacher, Alex Vela, Ricky Hildebrand, , Row 2: Patrick Keck, Andy Munson, Zachary Weethee, Andrew Kozman, Ryan Yoder, Aaron Kinnear, Row 3: Dre Rodriguez, , Drew Kaufmann, Brant Curnutte, Zachary Uphouse, Jacob Brown,

John Klie Middle School Coach

Coach Klie currently teaches math at Weaver Middle School. This is his fourth year at Weaver Middle School. Before that he was a tutor at Davidson for one year. This is his 6th year as the 8th grade baseball coach. He attended both Ohio University and Capital University before getting his degree. Coach Klie is also a Hilliard Davidson graduate in the class of 2002.

Brett Miller Middle School Coach

Coach Miller is in his 8th year coaching baseball in Hilliard. He was a Davidson graduate in 2002 and played both basketball and baseball in high school. He graduated from Ohio University in 2006 earning a bachelors degree in education and his masters in 2011 from MaryGrove College. This is his seventh year teaching ; currently teaching World Studies and Sociology at Davidson. He lives in Hilliard and has a wife, Erika, and 1 year old son, Gavin.

Coach Stephens Middle School Coach

Coach Stephens is a full-time substitute teacher for Hilliard City Schools. He graduated with a B.A. in Business from Cedarville University and a Masters in Ministry from Grace Seminary. Coach Stephens has coached baseball at Bradley HS, Memorial MS, and now at Weaver. He lives in the Hilliard City Schools district with his wife Sandy, who teaches at Washington Elementary.

FRESHMAN

8TH GRADE

Row One: Nick Commings, Landon Price, Seth Parker, Alex Peterson, Tim Domer, Jeremy Good, Shawn Parker Row Two: Nick Summers, Sam Monnin, Jeremy Kenny, Kyle Porter , Mitch Knoth Row Three: Coach Bauer, Kyle Neimeister, Grant Frisky, Daniel Downs, Pete Jarrett, Jake Shier, Coach Scally

Row One: Keegan Wolfinger, Ryan Stockamp, Nathan Mix, Jackon Jacobs, Luke Peterson Row Two: Johnathan Robinson, Brett Kodger, Nathan Exterovich, Brendon Yoder, Chano Rodriguez, Bryce Stein Row Three: Jordan Galindo, Matthew Kinnear, Jordan Hall, Andrew Tighe, Carson Curnette, Jon Stull, Coach Klie

7TH GRADE

Row One: Grant Cowen, Nicholas Sauvey, Drew Yoder, Nate Porter, Jason Harris, Emmitt Hoying Row Two: Christian Sweet, Nathaniel DeWeese, Carson Felicetty, David May, Brady Ingland Row Three: Coach Miller, Chase Miles, Joel Goodrich, Christian Gillilan, Ethan Royer, Austin Conrad Coach Stevens