WSC Baseball Camps - Wayne State College

WSC Baseball Camps

Coaching Staff

Brian Disch
Assistant Coach

Brian Disch enters his fourth season as the position and hitting coach for the Wayne State baseball program. He also serves as the team's third base coach.

Disch is no stranger to the Wildcat baseball program, having played under Coach John Manganaro from 1999-2004. He earned First Team All-Northern Sun Conference honors as a senior in 2004, hitting .301 for the season with 11 home runs and 38 RBI's. He was also selected the Most Valuable Player in the 2004 NSIC Tournament, helping WSC win a second straight NSIC championship. He was a member of the 2001 and 2004 Central Region teams at WSC.

Besides excelling on the field, Disch also achieved success in the classroom. He was named the 2002-03 Male Scholar Athlete at Wayne State College and was named to the NSIC All-Academic Team three times during his WSC career. Disch has also helped coach Legion baseball in Norfolk during the summer. In 2006, he coached the Norfolk Elkhorn Valley Bank Junior Legion team.

Disch, a native of Norfolk, Neb., also worked two years in the WSC Sports Information office while pursuing his master's degree in math education, which he achieved in 2007. Brian and his wife Lisa reside in Norfolk with their newborn daughter Alison.
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Adam Walkenhorst
Gradaute Assistant Coach

Adam Walkenhorst is in his second year as an assistant coach with the Wildcat baseball team, serving as the team’s pitching coach.

While playing for the Wildcats from 1998-2001, his team won the school’s first NSIC baseball championship in 2001 and also qualified for the Central Region Tournament for the first time. His team also set a school record for wins in 2001 with 35.

Walkenhorst is pursuing his master's degree at Wayne State College in sport management. Adam resides in Madison, Nebraska, and has one daughter, Lily (3).
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Ryan Lennerton
Graduate Assistant Coach

Ryan Lennerton is in his first season on the Wayne State College baseball coaching staff and will work with pitchers. Lennerton spent the 2007 season as pitching coach at Galveston College in Galveston, Texas. Prior to that, he served as head coach of the U16 Langley British Columbia Blaze Team and served as pitching coach of the U18 Langley Blaze of the British Columbia Premier Baseball League.

Lennerton, a native of Langley, British Columbia, played collegiate baseball for Eastern Oklahoma State College for two years before transferring to the University of Arkansas. Playing under Razorbacks head coach Dave Van Horn, Lennerton was a member of Arkansas' 2004 team that reached the College World Series that also captured the 2004 Southeastern Conference Championship. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2001 (24th round) and 2002 (42nd round).

Lennerton is pursuing a degree in health sciences at Wayne State College.
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Bruce Schlect
Volunteer Assistant Coach

Bruce Schlecht is entering his 11th year as a volunteer assistant on the Wildcat coaching staff. He serves as the team's bench coach.

Schlecht brings a wealth of experience to the WSC bench. He presently is the coach of the West Point Bombers, a semi-professional team. In addition, he was the head coach of the West Point Legion program for nearly 25 years. During that time, his teams were perennial Class B state title contenders, winning four times.