The 2017 season will mark Coach Watson’s ninth as Head Baseball Coach at Bloomfield College, a Division II school. He is a highly respected coach who started with Bloomfield college in 2008 as an assistant coach, recruiting coordinator and hitting instructor.
Coach Watson graduated from West Milford High School and continued his athletic career as a two-sport athlete at American International College, starring in both football and baseball. He was a three-time All-Northeast 10 Conference selection and holds the school’s career records for hits, doubles and RBIs.
In addition to providing private one-on-one instruction, Coach Watson serves as the Director, Club Baseball Program for In The Zone Baseball & Softball Academy. In this role he will serve as a strong and consistent positive role model for our players and coaches. His knowledge of the recruiting process, network of college level contacts and high level coaching experience are invaluable to our academy.
Taylor brings years of valuable playing and coaching experience to In The Zone Baseball & Softball Academy. As a four-year starting catcher and DH for Dowling College from 2008-2012, he was a key contributor on both offense (led all offensive categories in 2008) and defense. He was named team captain in 2012. Taylor was also the starting catcher at Northern Highlands Regional High School for three years, earning multiple 1st-team all-league selections while serving as captain.
Since his scholastic playing days, he has continued to share his love of baseball with aspiring athletes. Taylor coached youth baseball for three years in addition to instructing at prominent New Jersey baseball academies.
Tony Peralta enters his third season as an assistant coach on the Bears Baseball staff at Bloomfield College. He will assist in all areas of the baseball program, including recruiting and working with the program’s pitchers.
Tony brings professional playing experience after signing with the Detroit Tigers organization in 2003. Peralta played in the Tigers organization for 4 years and pitched to a 3.70 ERA in over 107 innings. Tony was originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates out of high school, but decided to continue his playing career in college prior to playing professionally. He played for the County College of Morris where he compiled a 7-1 record and led the team with a 1.25 ERA.
Before college, Tony played baseball for West Orange High School where he starred as a pitcher, outfielder and first baseman. During his high school career, he was named to the all conference and All-County teams for three seasons and also named to the All-State during his senior year. Tony currently holds the NJ state record for lowest strike out to walk ratio by compiling 109 strikeouts and only 9 walks in 88 innings. His high school career was capped off in 2014, when he was inducted into the West Orange High School Hall of Fame.
Tony resides in Livingston with his lovely family.
Brandon played his first 2 years at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ before transferring and finishing his college career playing at Arcadia University just outside of Philadelphia. In college he primarily played the corner outfield positions. Brandon was a 2010 graduate at Jefferson Township High School where he was a two year varsity starter. In 2009, as a Junior, he helped lead the varsity team tp capture the school’s first Sussex County Tournament Championship as well as help get them to the Group 2 Section Final.
Brandon graduated from Arcadia University in 2014 with a Bachelors Degree in Health Administration and is also a Personal Trainer pursuing a career as a physical therapist.
Charles is a graduate of West Morris Central High School in Chester NJ. After College Charles attended Moravian College of the Landmark Conference. At Moravian, Charles was a 4-year starter who holds various record for both offense and defense.
Tyler Pagaduan played college baseball at Geneva College in Western Pennsylvania, where he was a starter all 4 years as an Outfielder, and lefty specialist. Tyler finished his Senior year with a .339 batting average (top 15 in PAC) .467 on base percentage (top 5 in PAC), and led Geneva to its first winning season in 10 years. Before Geneva he attended Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees, NJ where he was 4 time Varsity starter, and helped lead the team to the State and Camden County Tournament Championships.
At Geneva, Tyler was a Double Major in Sports Management/Business and Biology. He was recently named as a scout for the Geneva baseball program to assist in recruiting student-athletes from New Jersey interested in continuing their academic and athletic careers at Geneva.
Peter started his college baseball career at Middlesex County College where he played for two years earning Academic All Conference Region XIX during the 2015 season where he made the dean’s list, pitched in 32.1 Innings, striking out 27, with a 2.78 ERA. At Rutgers Camden he majored in Education, Childhood Studies while at the same time serving as a back-end bullpen pitcher in his senior year pitching a total of 15 ⅓ innings striking out 21 and holding opponents to a .211 batting average.
In his high school playing days, Peter played at Millburn High School where he led the team as the Ace as a sophomore to Millburn’s best season in the school history where they went 27-4 for the season. That season, they won the Group 3 Section 8 State Championship, where Peter was the starting pitcher, as well as The Northern Hills Conference Championship. He had a Conference leading 8 wins and 1 loss that year including a Most Outstanding Pitcher award in 08’ and 10’ as well as 2nd team All Conference Awards in 2008 and 2010 After not playing due to injury his junior year he bounced back and pitched 35 ⅔ innings his senior year holding a 0.98 ERA for the season and a 1.29 Whip.
Before he started coaching at ITZ, Peter also has valuable coaching experience serving as the pitching coach for 2 years at TNT Baseball in New Brunswick where he worked with the 14U team as well as giving private instruction.
Amy graduated in 2009 from Geneva College with an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education and has been teaching fourth grade in the Roxbury School District for the past eight years, just recently receiving a Masters in Special Education from William Paterson University.
While at Geneva College, Amy was the starting catcher for the women’s softball team for four years, as well as being a captain her junior and senior years. She has been a catcher since age 12 but also played Center-field throughout my career. Although catching is her first love, hitting is a close second. Amy holds nine offensive records at Geneva College – Single Season Hits, Single Season Batting Average, Single Season Home-runs, Single Season RBIs, Career Hits, Career Batting Average, Career Home-runs, and Career RBIs. Below are some of the awards Amy received throughout my career:
- NCCAA Scholar Athlete 2007-2009
- NCCAA All American Catcher First Team Spring 2007, 2008, and 2009
- NCCAA All Region Player of the Year Spring 2008 and 2009
- NCAA East Regional First Team Spring 2008 and 2009
- NCAA PAC Coaches Honors First Team Spring 2008 and 2009
- NCCAA AMC All Conference Spring 2008 and 2009
- NCAA Pre-Season All-American Winter 2009
- Eastern College Athletic Conference All-Star Team Spring 2008
Amy have a total of 9 years of coaching experience at the high school varsity level. She coached at Madison High School for 6 years, helping lead the program to the state finals 2 years in a row. After Madison, Amy coached at Wayne Hills High School and recently was brought on as Varsity Softball Coach at Jefferson H.S.
Meagan Madsen is entering her 3rd season as the Assistant Softball Coach and Pitching Coach for the Centenary Cyclones. Madsen played all four years at Centenary setting records throughout her career and leading the team to back-to-back CSAC Championships in 2011 & 2012.
She became the first Centenary pitcher to make over 100-career appearances, while also becoming the All-Time leader in complete game shutouts (16) and innings pitched (439.1) and saves (5). In 2012 as a sophomore, Madsen led was named CSAC Pitcher of the Year following a season of 123 innings pitched recording an ERA of 3.06 with 59 strikeouts and five shutouts.
In 2011, Madsen was named to the Second Team All-CSAC Pitcher, Team MVP and ECAC South Pitcher of the Week.
Throughout her career, Madsen has been named to the CSAC All-Academic Team three times, recipient of the Cardy Gemma Award, First Team All-CSAC, CSAC Honorable Mention and multiple CSAC Pitcher of the weeks.
Madsen graduated in May 2014 with a Bachelors in Social Work and currently working towards her Masters in School Counseling.
Sam graduated in 2009 from Haverford College with an undergraduate degree in English and then went on to pursue a graduate degree in Special Education. She taught both English and Special Education at the secondary level before assuming her current position as an Assistant Professor of Practice at Relay Graduate School of Education.
While at Haverford College, Sam was in the starting pitching rotation for the women’s softball team and was a tri-captain her senior year. She still ranks among the top three pitchers in program history with a 2.43 career ERA.
Sam went on to become the bullpen coach for Haverford Softball for 5 years. Three of her pitchers ascended the program ranks and became All-Centennial Conference performers under Sam’s guidance and two were named to Regional All-Tournament teams. Haverford set a new program record with a team ERA of 1.86 during the 2014 Centennial Conference Championship season. To date, three of Haverford’s top four team ERAs came in the 2013 through 2015 seasons under her watch. The lone exception to that group is Sam’s senior season when she was part of a staff that broke the then-school record mark for team ERA. During Sam’s time with Haverford Softball, the team boasted 2 Centennial Conference Championships, 1 Regional Championship and 1 Super Regional appearance.
Current Gill St. Bernards Varsity Softball Coach and form Mendham Township Middle School Softball and basketball coach where he has been to the county final in softball the last 4 years, winning 2 championships. Also recently worked as on field trainer and assistant coach for NJ Venom(Since 2013), developing players ages 12U to 18U. Prior to that was head coach and founder of Mendham Mavericks 14U team compiling a record 133-28 in 4 seasons while also winning several regional tournaments.
Coach Surella’s gets the most out of players by building on their strengths through positive communication and improving the challenging parts of their game through repetitive and sometime innovative drills. He is passionate about the game and believes effort and energy are essential to overcoming obstacles.
A resident of Long Valley where he lives with his son, daughter and labradoodle ‘Maverick’. Coach Surella volunteers his time as treasurer of both Mendham High School softball and basketball booster clubs along with being President of Mendham Patriot Basketball.
Casey is a 2007 graduate of Sparta High School. She was selected to the All-Northwest Jersey and All-Conference teams in her senior season.
She continued on to play softball at Rowan University, starting all 4 years, where she ended her senior season with a .414 batting average and .475 on base percentage. For her performance in the 2011 season, she was selected first team for the NJAC All Conference team and the Regional All-Tournament Team.
While attending Rowan, Casey helped run hitting clinics during the winter and coached the South Jersey Cobras in the summer.
As a coach, she wants to show how working hard at practice, motivating each other, and communication leads to success as a player and team.
