TRYOUT NOW FOR 13U & 14U SPRING TEAMS

Blue Wave Baseball is now conducting tryouts for 13U & 14U teams for the 2023 Spring-Summer season.

Blue Wave 13U is for 7th graders and is coached by Aron Garcia, one of Orange County’s top youth coaches and present assistant baseball coach at Northwood High School for nearly 20 years. Garcia knows what it takes to develop players and how to get them to the next level in their game to make their high school teams and beyond as hundreds of his players have gone on to top college programs as well as the pros over the years.

Blue Wave 14U Coach Chris Reiland is a high school baseball coach at Aliso Niguel and focused on conditioning, skills development, infield drills, outfield drills, bullpens with catchers and pitchers, as well scrimmage gameplay for live reps.

Both 13U and 14U fall teams conduct fielding practice each Monday at OC Great Park, Irvine, and hit every Thursday as well.

Each team plays local scrimmage games and tournaments and will play eight games or more per month on a consistent basis.

COSTS AND FEES

Blue Wave team members pay a monthly training fee of $200 per player which includes all fielding and hitting practices for the month. All fees are paid prior to the start of the month.

Cost for local scrimmage games and local tournaments are additional and based on entry fee, travel, etc. In general, local scrimmage games are $15 to $25, local tournaments average $75. You only pay game or tournament fees when you play in the event.

CAN YOU PRACTICE AND NOT PLAY ON THE TEAM?

Blue Wave also offers “Practice Only” options for players that do not want to play with the teams but want to practice, either fielding or hitting sessions. Practice Only slots are limited.

Players must REGISTER online to schedule a tryout or attend an open tryout, practice, or game with Blue Wave. There is no cost to register.

Contact Steve Kruse (949) 202-7748 or to arrange a tryout.

ABOUT BLUE WAVE

Established in 1996, Blue Wave is one of the oldest and most respected “non-profit” club baseball organizations in Orange County. Blue Wave teams have played 6,500+ games, won 150+ tournaments, 12 national championships, and nationally ranked on multiple occasions.

More than 400 Blue Wave alumni have played or are playing collegiate baseball at some of the top programs in the country, including UCI, USC, UCLA, Oregon, Cal State University Fullerton, Stanford, PENN, Gonzaga, USF, University of Miami, Pepperdine, Long Beach State, Fresno State, Nebraska, Indiana, Kansas, Sacramento State, UCSB, Santa Clara, Clemson and more.

More than three dozen Blue Wave alumni have played or are playing or coaching Major League Baseball (MLB), including current Mariners Dylan Moore, Oakland A’s starter James Kaprielian, Cleveland catcher Austin Hedges, and Angels catcher Chad Wallach.

Aron Garcia

Head Coach & Trainer
Vice President & Board Director

(562)301-6516

Longtime Orange County youth baseball Coach Aron Garcia is director of player development at all levels for Blue Wave’s highly regarded High School Player Preparation Program that is focused on developing players for high school baseball and beyond.

Garcia is one of the top youth team coaches in the Western region and excels at preparing players for their freshman year of high school and beyond.

Garcia’s teams are consistently competitive and highly ranked every year, he has more than 70 tournament and league titles to his credit, as well as 14U national championships in 2009 and 2010.

His 14U team was 67-14 in 2010, ranked 18th in the nation by Perfect Game national scouting service, and finished first or second in more than a dozen tournaments over a five-month span. His 11U team won 7 out of eight tournaments they entered in 2015 and were ranked No. 1 in Southern California and No. 10 nationally by USSSA.

Garcia’s 2018 Blue Wave 12U team won eight tournament titles in eight months, compiling a 53-8-2 record that was capped off with the Cooperstown All-Star Village Week 9 Championship.

Garcia is also well experienced in playing in national tournaments; he was a member of the 1987 Northwood Little League team that played Taiwan in the Little League World Series.

He was featured in a feature article in the OC Register about his experience in the LLWS, as well as when he was featured in a June 27, 1988 Sports Illustrated as “The Comeback Kid.” And, in case you missed it, you can read the online version here HERE.

He was also a four-year varsity starter at Irvine High School, where he played shortstop. After high school, he attended Saddleback College, where he played baseball and football.

He has coached baseball and football since 1996 at Irvine High School, Mater Dei and Northwood High School, where he has been an assistant baseball coach for 19 years.