Lead Instructor, Professional Coach
Derek DeLaTorre has been coaching for 16 years. This is his 13th year as an instructor and coach with the Golden Gate Sliders program. He was the Assistant Coach of the 11/12U Golden Gate Sliders in 2009 and was also the Assistant Coach with Jake for the 11U North Bay Extreme travel team, which won the Central Regional Travel-Ball Championship in Burnsville, MN in the 2005 season. His most recent championship was in Steamboat Springs, CO the summer of 2013 where the Sliders 13U team won five straight games to win the silver bracket. Derek has also taken Sliders teams to Cooperstown, NY and Omaha, NE. Derek is at all the Sliders Summer Baseball Camps and is Jake's right hand man (and his younger brother).
As a player, Derek was a standout pitcher at Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park, CA. Derek has played in the Redwood Empire Baseball League since 2006, where he has been selected six times to the All Star Team. He won the Cy Young award through REBL in 2017.
Derek enjoys spending time with his family and coaching his son's sports teams. When he is not coaching or playing baseball, you can find Derek on the basketball court.
Derek is available for Private Baseball Lessons, throughout the year.
Derek DeLaTorre has been coaching for 16 years. This is his 13th year as an instructor and coach with the Golden Gate Sliders program. He was the Assistant Coach of the 11/12U Golden Gate Sliders in 2009 and was also the Assistant Coach with Jake for the 11U North Bay Extreme travel team, which won the Central Regional Travel-Ball Championship in Burnsville, MN in the 2005 season. His most recent championship was in Steamboat Springs, CO the summer of 2013 where the Sliders 13U team won five straight games to win the silver bracket. Derek has also taken Sliders teams to Cooperstown, NY and Omaha, NE. Derek is at all the Sliders Summer Baseball Camps and is Jake's right hand man (and his younger brother).
As a player, Derek was a standout pitcher at Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park, CA. Derek has played in the Redwood Empire Baseball League since 2006, where he has been selected six times to the All Star Team. He won the Cy Young award through REBL in 2017.
Derek enjoys spending time with his family and coaching his son's sports teams. When he is not coaching or playing baseball, you can find Derek on the basketball court.
Derek is available for Private Baseball Lessons, throughout the year.