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Scout Day Spotlight: Ohio Heat

WEST CHESTER - It is a “building year” right now for the Ohio Heat.

In existence for “quite some time” according to Michael Warmouth, change is upon the program.

“We’re rebooting the entire organization,” explained Warmouth.

It will start with three 16U teams along with one 14U team in the 2019 calendar year.

“Next year we’ll try to add a 15U,” Warmouth added. “We don’t want to try to get too big too fast. We still want to put a competitive team on the field.”

The Black Team will be the elite 16U team this year with a Red Team and White Team also being formed.

“We’ll move players around depending on how they perform,” Warmouth said. “The black and red teams will do a lot of traveling.”

While the teams will differ, the goal remains the same.

“Our ultimate goal in the end is we’re trying to get kids into the right situation,” Warmouth said. “Mainly we are trying to put kids in the appropriate situation for their skill level.”

That involves input and expertise from a number of people.

“Jeff Sheriff, who has two kids in Division I and another with us now, does a lot of the recruiting,” Warmouth said. “He sets up seminars. We have another person (Tim Dicke) that played basketball at Ball State doing NCAA clearinghouse for the organization. We’re trying to be a one-stop service.”

Brett McKinney and Chuck McKinney are trainers for the Ohio Heat.

“This year we have some parent coaching, but then we’ll have professional coaching moving forward with Brett and Chuck,” Warmouth said. “George Harmon from Hamilton West Side and the Little League World Series also helps us out. He’s a good resource. There’s also Tony Perkins, vice president of the Loveland association. So we’ve got a lot of good people in place.

“Basically we’re getting the teams together. It’s a building year now. It takes time … but we’re doing this for the long term.”

There is a copy of what the organization wants to be in the future.

“We’re trying to model ourselves after the Spikes,” Warmouth noted. “We’re non-profit, nobody takes a salary. It’s going to take time to create a quality organization for the kids to play regardless of their financial situation.”

The excitement of a new organization kicks off with the Prep Baseball Report Scout Day slated for Jan. 20.

“We have some players that have done them but for the high majority of our kids they’ve never been to a PBR,” explained Warmouth, who says 26 Ohio Heat players plan to participate in the upcoming Scout Day. “These are well-run events that I think will be real good for the kids.”

Warmouth and company have worked diligently attempting to get the players ready for the Scout Day.

“We’ve been training for six weeks,” Warmouth noted. “We shut down for two weeks for the holidays but then started it back up. The majority of the kids that were with Ironman last year are familiar with it.”

Expectations, for both the Scout day and the future of the organization, are in the right place.

“We want to get a few of our kids that I know have the ability to be given the proper exposure,” Warmouth said. “We want to get these kids out there with the proper exposure and getting them with PBR is one of the most important things you can do with your recruitment.”