Kris Jenkins - Owner & Director, K25 and Top Tier West

Next up on the ABCA Podcast is K25 and Top Tier West Owner & Director, Kris Jenkins. Jenkins has been coaching & training 6 year olds up to collegiate athletes for the last 16 years. The K25 facility is located in Aurora, west of Chicago where Jenkins grew up. Jenkins got his start coaching at Plainfield South High School. Jenkins was a tremendous 3 sport athlete at West Aurora High School and played collegiately at Triton and Illinois State University. Jenkins has great feel for blending new technology into coaching this generations’ baseball and softball players. You can watch his Barnstormers talk he gave on hitting on the website. In this episode we cover training, certifications, coaching hitters and differences between running a facility & coaching on the field. The ABCA Podcast is presented by Netting Pros. Netting Professionals are improving programs one facility at a time, specializing in the design, fabrication and installation of custom netting for backstops, batting cages, dugouts, bp screens and ball carts. They also design and install digital graphic wall padding windscreen, turf, turf protectors, dugout benches, dugout cubbies and more.