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 314 TRAINING ACADEMY STAFF 

 Facility Management 

Cameron Duke

Professional Experience: Missouri Valley College 
Role:  General Manager 

Cameron has been a member of the 314 Sports front office staff since 2020. Grew up in Jackson, MO before attending college baseball at Missouri Valley.

 

Along with the day to day management of 314 Training Academy, Cameron is also the assistant General Manager for the St Louis Redbirds baseball program which has 700 players in total from 7u-18u. 

Chandler Tonella

Professional Experience: Ole Miss University 
Role:  Assistant General Manager 

Chandler has been a member of the 314 Sports staff since 2018. Starting as a desk attendant in High School Chandler showed her ability to multi task at a high level. 

While attending Ole Miss University Chandler was promoted to Assistant General Manager handling all tasks remotely.

 Baseball Instructors: 
314 Training Academy instructors are highly qualified and have significant knowledge and training in their area of expertise.  All of our trainers have played and/or coached at a collegiate level with majority of our staff having Professional experience. 

Jeramy Allerdissen

Playing Experience: East Central CC

Training: Hitting, Pitching, Fielding, Catching

"The way that I teach, is a great reflection on the fact that I wish I would have known all of the things I know now, before I had gotten to high school and college baseball."

 

Currently Jeramy is the lead instructor and youth development coordinator at 314 Training Academy.  Jeramy has been giving individual hitting, throwing, fielding, and pitching instruction for baseball and softball for the last ten years. He personally has designed programs for sports camps, birthday parties and summer camps. Prior to these great experiences, Jeramy was employed by the Jewish Community Center as the Early Childhood and Youth gym teacher. With a great passion for starting athletes at a young age, he has trained many from youth all the way to college. Jeramy has coached for several youth, high school and college teams, including East Central Rebels, SLABA Redbirds, and the St. Louis Redbirds. Jeramy is also currently coaching in the St. Louis Redbirds organization.

 

During a typical session with Jeramy, a client can expect time spent on the importance of always seeing and paying attention to what they are doing and focusing on good balance and body control. Depending on each individual's needs and skill level, Jeramy will adjust which drills are necessary to achieve their goals.

Matt Mokriakow

Playing Experience: Blackburn University

Training: Hitting, Pitching, Fielding, Catching

Matt played and attended Edwardsville High School. Afterwards, he attended Blackburn College where he played baseball and earned his Bachelors Degree in Biology. During his career as an outfielder here, he broke hitting records at the college there: career batting average (.396), RBIs (138), doubles (48), and hits (220). He was voted Newcomer of the year by his teammates, 1st team All-Conference three times and three times to the All-Region team. After Blackburn, he played a year of Independent League baseball in Kentucky as an outfielder and pitcher. Matt graduated with his Masters Degree in Sports Science and Rehabilitation from Logan University in 2018. 

Matt enjoys working with all ages and tries to bring the best out of each individual. He is a firm believer in “position drives performance” and fully utilizing the body during baseball movements. 

Jacob Abraham

Professional Experience: Roswell Invaders 

Training: Hitting, Fielding, Catching

Jacob has been a baseball instructor for 13 years. Along with training Jacob has been a coach with the St Louis Redbirds for 8 seasons. While with 314 Training Academy he has worked with numerous high school players who have advanced on to play at the collegiate level.

 

Jacob is a 1998 Marquette High School grad where he was an all conference and all state selection with the Mustangs. Coach Abraham went on to play his collegiate baseball on full scholarship at East Central College and Professional Baseball in the independent Pecos League. 

Johnny Dozier

Professional Experience: Lewis & Clark Community College 
Training: Hitting, Fielding, Pitching

Johnny Dozier has been around the game of baseball for over 20 years. He spent his high school playing days at Belleville West high school and for travel teams such as Gateway Generals, Southern Illinois Braves, Southern Illinois Highland Blaze and Southern Illinois Dbacks. He was also a part of the 2013 Belleville legion state championship team, Hillgards. After that 2013 season he was asked to be a part of the legion All Star team and compete in an All Star game as the starting center fielder. After winning the regional championship in 2014 and completing his final high school season, Johnny signed to play baseball for Lewis And Clark community college. He started as the Blazers Right Fielder and leadoff hitter for both 2015 and 2016 school years.

 

After 2 years at a junior college, Johnny earned a sport to play outfield for Lindenwood University. After only doing one year at Lindenwood He decided to transfer schools and focus on graduating. That is when he first discovered coaching as the new thing for him. First by working front desk at Belleville SportsPlex Batters box, where players would get lessons from instructors who had great baseball backgrounds. The second eye opener to coaching happened in 2018 while assistant coaching his old high school under his freshmen coach Todd Boltz. He was fortunate to have the mentors and coaching he had at an early age and loves the idea of giving back that same way. As an instructor coach Johnny specializes in Hitting, Pitching, fielding, throwing and baserunning.

 

The goal as an instructor is to turn good baseball habits into muscle memory. Coaching is more than just leading guys onto a field or court and preparing for a season. Baseball is a team sport and is run correctly when everyone on such a team is working together with one common goal. As a coach and trainer, coach Johnny plans to help the youth develop great baseball instincts as well as give them the proper tools needed to fight adversity as a team or individual.

Alex Kollack

Professional Experience: Maryville University 
Training: Hitting, Pitching, Fielding, Catching

Hey, I’m coach Alex Kollack. I played collegiate baseball at Maryville University. While pitching at Maryville, I earned All-Conference honors as well as leading the nation in strikeouts per nine innings my Junior year. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, I went on serve as the pitching coach for the University of Dubuque. 

 

I have been an instructor/coach for the last 15 years. I have coached all age groups in both softball and baseball. I enjoy working with kids of all ages and skill levels. I can do it all. Pitching, Hitting, Defense, & Catching for both baseball and softball. 

 

I am a firm believer in that this is a game of failure. You’re going to fail more than you succeed. But it’s what you do after you fail that defines the kind of player you are. 

Gino  D'Alessio

Professional Experience: Quincy University 
Training: Hitting, Pitching, Fielding, Catching

Hi everybody, I joined the Redbirds in the fall of 2024, where I coached a 9U and 10U team! Personally, I started my college baseball career at Quincy University and transferred to ACU where I finished my career! I played SS my first three years; 3B and 1B my senior year.

Quincy: -3x All-Conference -1x All-American -School Record: Runs scored in a single season -Top 5 in batting average, runs scored, hits, and doubles

Abilene Christian University: -1st team All-Conference -All-Defensive Team

Career: .371 batting average -34 HRs -54 Doubles -200 RBIs -315 Hits

I have 5+ years of experience as a private instructor! Your son’s baseball skills will improve, guaranteed! More importantly, my goal is to instill confidence in every kid that I work with! This includes fundamental work as well as mental toughness!

James Beirne

Professional Experience: St Louis  University 
Training: Hitting,  Fielding

My name is James Beirne, I played baseball since I was 5 years old. During my high school career, I played on varsity all four years! My main position is shortstop but I played them all! After my high school career, I went on to play club ball at Saint Louis University, Covid hit and it got shut down.

 

I didn’t want to leave baseball behind so my last three years I have been a volunteer varsity assistant coach for my old high school at Ladue Horton Watkins High school.

 

I am a fielding and hitting instructor but I also I want make sure we get better! Baseball is a game of failure, the harder you work the better you will become. My goal is to train and share my love of baseball with anyone I work with!

 Softball Instructors: 

Jeramy Allerdissen

Playing Experience: East Central CC

Training: Hitting, Pitching, Fielding, Catching

"The way that I teach, is a great reflection on the fact that I wish I would have known all of the things I know now, before I had gotten to high school and college baseball."

 

Currently Jeramy is the lead instructor and youth development coordinator at 314 Training Academy.  Jeramy has been giving individual hitting, throwing, fielding, and pitching instruction for baseball and softball for the last ten years. He personally has designed programs for sports camps, birthday parties and summer camps. Prior to these great experiences, Jeramy was employed by the Jewish Community Center as the Early Childhood and Youth gym teacher. With a great passion for starting athletes at a young age, he has trained many from youth all the way to college. Jeramy has coached for several youth, high school and college teams, including East Central Rebels, SLABA Redbirds, and the St. Louis Redbirds. Jeramy is also currently coaching in the St. Louis Redbirds organization.

 

During a typical session with Jeramy, a client can expect time spent on the importance of always seeing and paying attention to what they are doing and focusing on good balance and body control. Depending on each individual's needs and skill level, Jeramy will adjust which drills are necessary to achieve their goals.

Alex Kollack

Professional Experience: Maryville University 
Training: Hitting, Pitching, Fielding, Catching

Hey, I’m coach Alex Kollack. I played collegiate baseball at Maryville University. While pitching at Maryville, I earned All-Conference honors as well as leading the nation in strikeouts per nine innings my Junior year. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, I went on serve as the pitching coach for the University of Dubuque. 

 

I have been an instructor/coach for the last 15 years. I have coached all age groups in both softball and baseball. I enjoy working with kids of all ages and skill levels. I can do it all. Pitching, Hitting, Defense, & Catching for both baseball and softball. 

 

I am a firm believer in that this is a game of failure. You’re going to fail more than you succeed. But it’s what you do after you fail that defines the kind of player you are. 

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