DMACC Bears News
posted 09/01/10
Lambert Hired as DMACC Assistant Baseball Coach
Blaze Lambert has been hired as an assistant baseball coach at Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC). Lambert comes to DMACC after spending the past two seasons as a volunteer assistant at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
Lambert will serve as the team’s pitching coach and recruiting coordinator.
“Blaze is a tremendous worker and everyone he has ever worked with said he is a worker,” said DMACC baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald. “He’s very detail oriented, he’s very organized and he impressed me because he had a very specific plan about his pitchers and his background in baseball is tremendous.”
Lambert grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He played college baseball at Eastfield College, a two-year community college in Mesquite, Texas, and finished his collegiate career at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Fla.
“He’s going to be a good one,” Fitzgerald said. “Everything he does, he does full go. He’s bee doing a great job in our first week in practice. He knows what he wants (the pitchers) to look like and they’re working really hard at it.”
Lambert served as a graduate assistant at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas before joining the staff at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. He said becoming a pitching coach was a natural for him after spending his playing career as a catcher.
“It’s basically because I’ve dealt with pitchers all my life,” Lambert said. “When you catch that many games and see that many pitchers, you’re going to see plenty of mechanics. When you’re a catcher, you kind of become a coach out there because you have to make trips out to the mound to talk with pitchers during games to settle them down or help them through situations when they’re having problems with their deliver or mechnics.”
Lambert said he is excited to join the DMACC staff.
“This is one of the best junior college programs in the country and is a great opportunity for me,” Lambert said. “My philosophy with pitching is that we’re going to be as athletic as we can possibly be. I want us to be the toughest pitching staff in the conference every single year. Guys are going to be able to attack both halves of the plate and keep the ball down.”