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The Coach

Duke Baxter

CEO & Head Coach, Zoned Sports Academy & Co-founder of Dominate the Diamond

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Duke Baxter and the Zoned Team of Coaches

Duke Baxter and his team at Zoned boast impressive collegiate and professional baseball and softball careers and accolades. Several coaches continue to play professional baseball and spend their off season coaching and training in our facility. Our staff is very passionate about both baseball and softball and we hope to share our love for the game with the future generations of the sport.

Meet Coach Duke Baxter

With 4 decades of baseball experience, Coach Duke’s knowledge is deeply rooted in all aspects of the game. Duke has played baseball both collegiately and professionally where he’s received numerous accolades and awards. Today, he dedicates his career to developing athletes both at Zoned Sports Academy in Bridgewater, NJ, the training facility he founded, and through books and videos with Dominate the Diamond®. His love of the game translates into his coaching philosophy and approach. Whether he’s teaching kids, parents or other coaches he’s inspiring, motivating, fun and humble. His positive coaching approach has been a great motivator for players, parents and his peers.

Coach Duke has instilled his philosophy of teaching and sharing in the creation of Dominate the Diamond® Courses as well as videos all over social media. His goal is to help every baseball and softball player, coach, and parent get educated, motivated, and then dominate on and off the field.

DUKE BAXTER’S EXPERIENCE:
* Founder of the Zoned Sports Academy Training facility in NJ
* Amazon #1 Best Selling Co-Author- ‘Taking on the Title of Coach’
* Played Professional Baseball for the Somerset Patriots
* Played Professional Baseball for the Madison Blackwolf
* 'Rookie of the Year' for Madison Blackwollf
* Set the NCAA record with 31 doubles at University of North Florida
* Professional Hitting, Fielding Instructor at Zoned Spots Academy for (15+ years)
*Head Travel Baseball Coach
*Holds 2 United States Patents for baseball and softball training aids
* Co-Creator of the Dominate the Diamond® brand
* Coached and Trained over 50,000 baseball and softball players for over 2 decades