Coach Bill Holmes
spent two seasons coaching at Tualatin High School,
most recently as the head JV softball coach where his team
finished 16-4 for the season. Bill is an active participant in
local and national coaching clinics, as well as player camps.
Coach Holmes’ 10U team finished as the runner up (2nd)
in the Oregon ASA 10A championships this past season and looks
forward to competing at the highest level in the coming season.
Roger Gray has been a player or youth coach for baseball and
softball since he was 8 years old. Roger played baseball,
including professionally, for 20 successful years as a pitcher.
He learned how to coach hitting by analyzing how to pitch to
good hitters.
Roger coached varsity baseball for the Mead Panthers in Spokane,
Washington and recently served as the hitting coach for the
highly successful Tigard High School varsity softball program
and the equally successful Tualatin High School varsity softball
program up until his retirement in 2008.
Roger teaches and coaches hitting mechanics, situational
hitting, hitting zones, power techniques and hitting for
average. Roger believes that a batter should have an approach
for every pitch in every inning.
Roger’s success in developing hitters is demonstrated by the
awards secured by players at Tigard and Tualatin High Schools:
- Over 100 conference all-star hitters
- Multiple
conference players of the year including 2006 and 2007
- Multiple
Oregon All-State players
- The 2006 OSAA Softball Player of the Year
- Two NAIA first
team All-American players from the Tigard squads
- 2008 NCAA
first team All-American from the 2006 Tualatin squad
- From the past
five seasons at Tualatin High School nine (9) players have gone
on to play softball at the collegiate level, including six at
Division I universities. These players went to Oregon, Portland
State, Ole Miss, Wisconsin, and Utah State.
Roger brings an understanding of the pitcher’s mentality and
converts it into a plan at the plate for every hitter. He
works with pitchers on approaches to batters up and down the
lineup.
The discipline and focus that it takes to make great hitters also
produces confident and successful young adults and citizens. He
believes the partnership between parents and coaches can make
each player’s softball experience fun while the team competes at
the highest level.
Roger is looking forward to working with the Oregon Wolves 14A
players and their parents.
Coach Dan Roisom recently retired as one of the most successful
High School softball coaches in Oregon history with over 400
wins at the 6A (or equivalent) level. Dan has a 20-year
coaching career at Tigard High School and Tualatin High School,
as well as 10 years coaching ASA softball from ages 10 through
the 18-Gold level. Dan is eager to be assisting the Oregon
Wolves 14A team and to be teamed up again with Roger Gray and
Bill Holmes. Dan provides a unique perspective on game
situations, fundamentals of outfielding, infielding and
baserunning.
Coach Jessica Popiel has been playing softball/baseball since the
lovely age of 6 and has played most of her 14 successful years working hard behind the
plate as a catcher - but also as a utility player. Jessica was part of Coach Dan Roisom's
14U ASA Oregon State Championship team, the Tualatin Wolves, in 2002 and went on to play
for him for 6 successful years. After high school, she went to play at the collegiate level
for Linfield College in McMinnville, OR. There she started 42 games as a freshman
and was part of the 2007 NCAA Division III National Championship team becoming the first
female team in Linfield history to come home with a national championship trophy.
Now as a first year coach she is excited to put all of ther experiene to good use working with the catchers on the fundamentals of a very important position. Jessica is looking forward to working with all the Wolve's players, parents and coaches as the season progresses.
