Baseball
- Title:
- Baseball Strength & Conditioning Coach
- Email:
- kinsleyr@ecu.edu
- Phone:
- (252) 737-1333
Blaine Kinsley enters his fourth year as assistant strength and conditioning coach at East Carolina University, a position he accepted in the fall of 2012. He is primarily responsible for working with the baseball, soccer and men's tennis programs.
Kinsley came to ECU after spending 16 months working in the Chicago Cubs organization as the head strength coach for the Peoria Chiefs, the Cubs Low Class A affiliate. While in Peoria, Ill., he was responsible for implementing the strength and conditioning program and injury prevention, which earned him 2012 Midwest League Strength Coach-of-the-Year honors.
Prior to his time in the Cubs organization, Kinsley interned at Hendricks Motor Sports where he was responsible for assisting with workouts for the Pit Crew in the summer of 2010.
Kinsley, who also has three years of coaching experience, served as an assistant Babe Ruth coach at the Greenville Parks and Recreation (2008-09), has worked baseball camps at the University of Virginia (2009) and was an assistant development JV Coach at Lenoir-Rhyne (2010) where he worked with the pitching staff and coached third base.
A native of Greenville, N.C., Kinsley earned his bachelor's degree in sports management with a minor in health and exercise science from Lenoir-Rhyne, where he was a four-year letterwinner in baseball and two-year letterman in football for the Bears.
