Joining us this week on the ABCA Podcast is the 2025 ABCA/Soldier Sports High School Div. III Assistant Coach of the Year Saint Thomas Aquinas (KS) assistant coach, Michael Jacobs. Aquinas is coming off back-to-back Kansas Class 5A State Championships and fifth overall for the school. The Saints finished the season with a 27-4 record.

Jacobs is a Kansas City native, Aquinas alum and pitched collegiately for the University of Iowa, graduating in 2010. Jacobs worked in banking before going back to get his teaching degree in 2014.

Jacobs has great feel for developing amateur pitchers, so this is a deep dive into pitching development and arm health.

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