{"id":18944,"date":"2025-01-29T11:51:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T17:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/green-bay-rockers\/?p=18944"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:19:33","slug":"rockers-announce-assistant-coaches-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/green-bay-rockers\/2025\/01\/29\/rockers-announce-assistant-coaches-for-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockers Announce Assistant Coaches for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Cave, Dawson, &amp; McElroy will join new field manager Josh Merrill in dugout this summer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ashwaubenon, Wis.- The Green Bay Rockers are pleased to announce the coaches that will join new field manager Josh Merrill in the dugout this summer. Pitching coach Kevin Cave (Desert Hills), bench coach Chris Dawson (McPherson College), and hitting and first base coach John \u2018JR\u2019 McElroy (Arkansas) are set to guide the Rockers on the field this summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin Cave<\/strong> enters his second season with the Rockers, first as pitching coach. Last summer Cave\u2019s duties included working with hitters, throwing batting practice, producing Trackman reports, and first base coach. Cave\u2019s broad experience in the game and attention to detail will allow him to excel working with the pitching staff in this role for 2025. He played four years collegiately at Gonzaga University, where he was part of a West Coast Conference Division championship team. During college, Cave played summer baseball for the Bend Elks of the West Coast League. After graduating, he has worked as a head high school baseball coach, teacher, lawyer, and athletic director. Currently, he heads up the baseball program at Desert Hills High School in St. George, Utah, where he has lived since 2020 with his wife Katie and daughters Kinsley and Dagny. A graduate of the University of Oregon School of Law, he is a member of the bar in both Oregon and Utah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Dawson<\/strong> joins the coaching staff as bench coach and will oversee the development of infielders and hitters. Dawson currently serves as the Head Baseball Coach at McPherson College in Kansas, where he has led the program since 2023. During Dawson\u2019s five years at McPherson, the team has been ranked in the NAIA top 25 multiple times with a program high ranking of 13<sup>th<\/sup> coming in the spring of 2022. Prior to his arrival in McPherson, Dawson was the head coach at Southwestern College and has also had coaching stints at Central Christian College, Hawaii Pacific University, and Hesston College. Dawson is no stranger to the summer collegiate baseball scene after spending last summer leading the Kansas Curve in the Kansas Collegiate League, where his team finished with an appearance in the league championship game. Dawson has also spent time as the head coach of the Joplin Outlaws in the MINK League, where his team set the single season stolen base record in the summer of 2021. Dawson is a native of Wichita, Kansas and currently resides in Newton, Kansas with his wife Whitney and their son, Kannon. He is a graduate of Central Christian College with a Bachelor of Science and East Central University with a Master of Education in Sports Administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John \u2018JR\u2019 McElroy<\/strong> will serve as the Rockers hitting and first base coach in his first season with the team. A 2019 graduate of Bentonville West High School in Centerton, Arkansas, where he played baseball, McElroy has been on staff with the University of Arkansas baseball program for six years. He is currently a graduate assistant focusing on offensive player development and analytics for the program. In the summer of 2024, McElroy was the hitting coach for the Johnstown Mill Rats of the Prospect League, where he was a member of current Rockers field manager Josh Merrill\u2019s coaching staff. McElroy graduated in May of 2023 from Arkansas with an undergraduate degree in physical education and expected to graduate with his masters degree in sports management in May of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Season ticket packages, group tickets and the Pep\u2019s Drafthaus Flex Packs are available now. Visit www.greenbayrockers.com or call the ticket office at 920-497-7225 to reserve your seats today. The Rockers front office at Capital Credit Union Park is located at 2231 Holmgren Way in Ashwaubenon. Office hours are Monday-Friday 8:30am-5pm.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><em>The Green Bay Rockers are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. The Northwoods League is the proven leader in the development of elite college baseball players. Now entering its 32nd\u00a0season, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in history with 24 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires, and front office staff, 360 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including three-time All-Star and 2016 Roberto Clemente Award winner Curtis Granderson, three-time Cy Young Award winner and World Series Champion Max Scherzer (TEX), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist and Brandon Crawford (STL) and World Series Champion Chris Sale (ATL). As well as 2019 Rookie of the Year and 2019\/2021 Home Run Derby Champion Pete Alonso (NYM) and 2023 World Series Champion, MLB All-Star, MLB Gold Glove winner and two-time All-MLB first team shortstop Marcus Semien (TEX). League games are viewable live on Northwoods League+ (at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/watch.northwoodsleague.com\/\"><em>watch.northwoodsleague.com<\/em><\/a><em>), ESPN+, and the Northwoods League Network.\u00a0 Learn more and find complete streaming schedules at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/watchnwl.com\/\"><em>watchnwl.com<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0For more information, visit\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbayrockers.com\/\"><em>www.greenbayrockers.com<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Rockers as your favorite team.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cave, Dawson, &amp; McElroy will join new field manager Josh Merrill in dugout this summer Ashwaubenon, Wis.- The Green Bay  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permanentslider","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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