Performance Velocity Systems

01/13/2026

THE PVS COACHING TREE.

This week The Pittsburgh Baseball Lab will open in the South Hills of Pittsburgh. The Director of Pitching is Eric Mock. Eric is from Governor Mifflin High on the other side of the state. Eric made his way to PVS to train alongside fellow Penn State Alum Taylor Lehman (Keystone Oaks) after being drafted by the Cleveland Indians.... As fate would have it- Eric Married a Pittsburgh girl and made their home here. Eric began his coaching journey as our first ever intern at PVS. His contributions contributed greatly to the growth and development of our young players as pitchers and men. Eric moved to Charlotte to begin work at Tread Athletics before once again being pulled back to Western PA. We wish Eric all the best of luck on his new company!!! But Eric is not the first or the last PVS guy to get into coaching... Here are some more:

Dylan Chan: Carrick High/ LaRoche.
Strength Coach Allegheny College

Zander Fasulkey: Char Valley/ Westminister.
Private Personal Trainer

Josh Mitchell: Ridgeway High/ Pitt/ KC Royals
Head Trainer Beimel Elite Athletics. Los Angeles, California

Jared Skolnicki: Keystone Oaks/ Kent State. Col Rockies.
Director of Ops Driveline Baseball Arizona.

Nick Beardsley: Redondo Beach California/ Point Park/ Staten Island Ferry Hawks. Pitching Coach Point Park U

Zach Tortorella: Indiana HS/ Akron
IUP Asst Football Coach

Joey Craska: Mars Area/ NJIT. Asst Coach Manhattan College

Joa Rivera: PPU Strength Coach EOS Fitness, Orlando, FL

Jeffrey Warmbein: USC/ IUP / Pitt
Asst Coach IUP Softball

Kenneth Rolon: PPU Director of Strength & Conditioning KF Baseball Performance Ponce, Puerto Rico

Tyler Garbee: Quaker Valley/ Mercyhurst/ Cin Reds
Director of Pitching All American Steelheads Erie, PA

Ricky Mineo Slippery Rock High/ SRU/ MN Twins
Pitching Coach Slippery Rock University

John Sansone: Neshannock/ Florida St / Cin Reds
Owner Operator Sansone Baseball Academy

Aaron Endres: Lockhaven
Online Performance Coach / Influencer Ekko Brand

12/30/2025

The Number 1 mistake parents make

Your kid isn’t “ahead”.. he’s early

©️Post from founder

For years we have advised parents to be judicious with Game play at the youth level. (All Sports)

Winning travel / rec games can give a false sense of accomplishment to parents. On occasion, youth dominance is because of God-given ability. Most often, however, youth dominance is a result of early physical maturation or another person in the young athlete’s life who pushes them to do things /Play at a rate that their peers are not close to. They just have alot more experience.

Early advantages disappear. This is hard to recognize because few Coaches see or will be honest with a parent while they are winning.

Winning keeps parents happy. There’s a lot of rec ball champions who played at PNC Park last summer that will never play meaningful college baseball. Youth athletes play too many games. And they do not train enough individually or in a group setting that pushes that kid beyond what they are capable of alone. Many great early maturing players disappear in middle school and high school. The Facebook post from parents stop …and it’s always someone else’s fault. Politics, Daddy Ball/ whatever. They’re simply never around people who push them by example. I’m not talking about a coach. I’m talking about walking into a place and seeing somebody two years older than you / 4 years older than you/ 10 years older than / s**t even 2 years younger than you -working his/ her ass off for something that is not guaranteed. Development is a learned behavior. And in our experience- best learned in a group. So the dominant 12 U player who’s probably in seventh grade wins 10 trophies at Ripken & the Akron Applebee’s hoedown throwdown…. And you’re thinking everything is good. But puberty shows up for everybody eventually. The gap closes and you find out that no NCAA coach coach cares about how good a player was when they were 12. Youth dominance means nothing later. NCAA Coaches care about movement, speed, strength, power, coachability, attitude. It’s the very first thing told our players this weekend. He didn’t care one iota whether you were a division 1 player or a 10 year old…he wanted to watch you move.

Most parents understand this too late .

The physical advantage is the one thing that cannot be caught quickly. Parents should know this because many of them have under-sized kids….and they know it’s gonna take time to “catch up.” But those parents of average to larger kids they don’t learn that lesson until it’s too late.

Confidence drops, the bad habits that were covered up by the previous “early” advantage- becomes disadvantages. The across the body swing cannot catch up to the new Velocity and Movement. The 73 mph fastball that dominated at 12U no longer blows by anyone. The gap has become a deficit and a 15 or 16 you almost impossible to have the honesty to recognize that and change it.

I have a gym full of kids home from college right now. Not one of them says they wish they would’ve played more games when they were younger. All of them in chorus sing 🎶 “wish I had done more of what I’m doing now.

I have two youth groups that sometimes play games. The death ☠️ squad and the Raiders. Since September- they haven’t had one organized baseball- only practice where we are trying to field ground balls or hit 100% of the time. We have done some of that but every single practice has involved >70% weightlifting / power / speed / mobility= MOVEMENT!!!! all specific to being better at baseball in three - 5 years. Habits and skills that will scale & are designed to eventually push them past their peers

I still get questions. “When are we going to do this? When are we gonna do that?” Some of them sort of in/ some of them with one foot in on middle school open gyms and Rec Ball pony league games.

2/ I remind them that the two PVS kids who played the least amount of games last summer are Graham Keen and Matthew Hughes. They are maniacal about what I’m talking about above. And they couldn’t be 2 better examples.

1️⃣has tremendous God-given size and talent who still works for everything he can get.

2️⃣The other …nobody wanted on their travel team at 12U. and now he is one of the best pitchers in the WPIAL.

♊️ Both Division I commits.

I ask parents to watch what will happen in the next three or four years with those 2. They are the model !!! not the 8000 kids who pack into some random facility waiting for a fungo or to hit a ball down the middle from a meatball maker. Those parents and those kids are wasting their money and what is intimately worse: their time !!!! I tell parents to come into the facility every Christmas and ask questions about all the college players that are having success, and what they would do if they could do it all over again.

success leaves clues and it’s a lot easier for us to say that now being an established facility that pops out NCAA Players every year…..but it’s still difficult at times because of the sports industrial complex and their grip on tournaments gameplay you go over coaches, my school, etc.

It’s difficult for us to continue to preach this truth (that has so much evidence) because it goes against the the number one mistake parents are conditioned to make.

If this is hitting home for you- DM us
“ready” and an email address ….we will send you a copy of 10 steps you can take right now that won’t cost you a dime and be more beneficial than what you’re paying through the nose for

Pictured in our 1st post is Michael Kohowski. Michael’s family understands this. If Michael had done what all his peers have done over the last three years- he would not be throwing 81.7 mph from the mound.

12/30/2025

Hello!!!! We are making Our return to Facebook in 2026 largely at the recommendation of Trusted Friend in the business - the best hitting guy anywhere.... We've been busy.... Facility Expansion, APP access that touches 30 States and home to 6 Division 1 Throwing Programs. Buffalo's Maddie Scarpace recently became our 150th NCAA Commit. We are excited to share what we have been posting on other platforms (twitter/ Instagram) here to Facebook! Our first post: "The #1 Mistake Parents Make"

08/20/2025

Contact Jeffrey at [email protected] to Get one of our Winter Team Training sessions.

Organizations Who have trained with us in the past (teams):
Ohio Outlaws (4)
Team PA (9)
PGH Riot (14)
PGH Predators
Corona Angels
Beverly Bandits
Unity
Lady Dukes
California Rip Tide
Nebraska FireCrackers
Nebraska Gold
PGH Renegades
Rhode Island Thunder

02/29/2024

The numbers are in for our 6th visit to PBR West Showcase. We were 2026 (Sophomore) heavy with one 2027 and 3 2025s...

12 PVS guys averaged the following:

96.7 mph exit velocity
85 mph pitching velocity
90 mph Outfield velocity
88 mph Infield velocity
3.9 second 30

Exceptional results for a Winter of training

Congrats boys:
Ty Faust 2026 Norwin
Graham Keen 2027 Mt. Lebanon
Same Luedde 2026 Central Catholic
Matthew Foti 2026 Central Catholic
Amudhan Gandhi 2026 Central Catholic
Matthew Hughes 2026 Bethel Park
Dylan Schumacher 2025 Bethel Park
Dante DeLeonibus 2025 Shaler area
Tyler Maddix 2025 Bishop Canevin
David Oberschelp 2025 Peters Twp
Jonny Saunders 2026 Gateway
Colin Pearson 2026 Thomas Jefferson

01/16/2024

10/01/2023

To the Coaches, Parents and (especially the) Players of the Pittsburgh Riot Travel Softball Organization:

This is an open letter to Thank all of you for the opportunity to get to know and work with The PGH Riot.

I initially got into working with The PGH Riot through Coach Jason Snyder. While I have worked with several Travel teams both locally and nationally, I had never been given the keys to an entire organization before. While speaking with Coach Snyder, Coach Pete and Mr Henry in the weeks leading up to Labor Day- I started to notice something different about this project. I wasn’t sure what it was…but it had a different tone and attitude. More on that later…When the deal was signed and the schedule made- my staff and I broke down how we would do our best for all these athletes…We were ready.

As the days drew closer, I was grateful for the opportunity to expand my reach and influence in the local softball community. But now, as my days on this project draw to a close… I have to be honest- I never thought I would enjoy this as much as I have. This has been a very rewarding experience for me personally.

Coaches should grow. But the opportunities to grow are not always present. Coaches can and do plateau. I have learned that you need a few things to take your ability to teach into hyperdrive. Of the many I have experienced on my journey as a coach- the only other time I feel like I’ve grown this much in this short of a time frame… was during the Covid lockdown. Out of nowhere- I was forced to communicate through screens….I could not put my hands on anyone..Demonstrating was tough via facetime…So I had to learn to …as my Aunt once said to me as a boy: “Use your words Matthew”.... When I came back to my facility- I was a much better Coach for having gone through that. It made me communicate and process my message to athletes clearer.

The past 5 weeks have done the same thing to me. There were 100 girls in my gym every Thursday and Sunday. They had varying abilities, came in all sizes and levels of curiosity when it came to learning new things- in a new place- from this new Coach. I was learning from all of these girls as they learned from me. And as the weeks went on… Together- everyone got better. To get to work with so many different players with unique abilities or challenges and watch them come together as they have... has been one of the coolest things I have witnessed as a Coach. Observing these girls go from me speaking non stop while they stare at me trying to understand on week 1 ...to me barely saying a word this past Thursday as they ran the whole show was remarkable. They corrected each other, they helped each other, they demonstrated, they communicated, they encouraged……. I said this to Jason Snyder after that Thursday session- I personally grew as a coach this month. I learned countless new ways to relate sometimes complex concepts into more easily digested ideas for varying age groups and ability levels.... All done with a can-do positive attitude where I wanted to be there with them more every passing week and they did too!!! Again- just a very personally rewarding experience. I wish I could articulate that better.

I think all of the above speaks to the kind of Parent and player RIOT seeks to have join their family/ organization. Something was different in my talks with the Organization before we started… and I believe I witnessed why The Riot is different this month.

Players- Thank you for giving me your very best this month!
Thank you for “Being Present” 😀

More than anything- Thank you for the display of camaraderie and true sisterhood I was privileged to watch week after week! It is unfortunately rare these days to see young people genuinely happy when their peers do well and or be enthusiastic about working hard. Wherever your pursuits in life take you- I hope you learned what you can accomplish when you plan and execute with enthusiasm and joy.

Very Grateful:

Coach Matt

Pittsburgh Riot Jason Snyder

07/12/2023

We have a New Raider and one of our Pros sent him this!!! Welcome to the PVS Raiders Brayden Bobitski from Pitt Alum and Minnesota Twins LHP Josh Mitchell!!!

“Brayden Bobitski: welcome to the PVS Raiders! It Takes What it Takes! Shout out alum and LHP Josh Mitchell for the 🎥”

05/25/2023

PVS Hitters drove in 8 of 10 Runs scored by Belle Vernon. They win 10-1 over previously unbeaten Elizabeth Forward. What did we do and how did we do it against one of the best Pitchers in the WPIAL- check twitter for a thread in the weeks ahead

As sweet as career win No. 300 was for Belle Vernon softball coach Tom Rodriguez, No. 301 was a little sweeter.

05/24/2023

Our Taylor Lehman is 1 step closer to The Major Leagues. Today , The Phillies prospect was promoted to AAA Lehigh !!! Taylor is a Keystone Oaks & Penn State Graduate! Congrats Taylor!!

05/11/2023

It is the most listened to Podcast of 2023 for PatrickJonesBaseball.cm eclipsing Tom House. If you missed it- give a listen!!!

This week we're talking to two great coaches in the private sector. John Sangillo and Matt Pilewski . John is a hitting coach In New Jersey who works with 100s of hitters. He has traveled all over the country doing private clinics. John constantly learns about hitting...

05/03/2023

The Best Softball Programs in the Country Travel to us or fly us to them! Here's one: Firecrackers Softball from Nebraska

“If you have the opportunity to work …..DO IT! You won’t regret it. We are 🙏 for all we learned when they trained and coached our athletes! 🧨”