Contact Brad Mazer at 612-790-7912 or mizzo22@yahoo.com

Brad Mazer graduated from Orono High School in 1998. During his career at Orono he was a member of the 1996 baseball team that finished 2nd in the State High School Tournament. Brad then went on to play at Gustavus Adolphus College. During his career at Gustavus he was a member of both all-conference and all-region teams for four years and was a team captain for his final two seasons. In 2002 he was voted the MIAC Player of the Year and was a member of the All-America Team. After graduating from Gustavus in 2002 he went on to play professionally for the Fargo Moorhead Redhawks of the Northern League. He played for three seasons and was the starting catcher when Fargo Moorhead won the Northern League Championship in 2003. 

Contact Jim Benson at baseballacademy@comcast.net or 763-242-2922

Jim Benson grew up in Minnetonka playing in Little League, Babe Ruth, High School and American Legion baseball. After college at Georgia Tech and the University of Minnesota , he played international baseball in Europe. In 1975, Jim signed with the Minnesota Twins and played in the Twin's minor league system.  After returning to Minnesota, he played Town Ball for the next eight years with the Minnetonka Millers and the Hamel Hawks.

Jim Benson co-founded Baseball USA over 20 years ago at the Williston Center in Minnetonka. In the early years, Baseball USA flourished as kids from all over the metro Twin Cities came to the Williston Center to improve their baseball skills. In those years, at least three former and future major league pitching coaches helped in the development of drills and a curriculum for coaching that Jim still uses today. In 2004, Jim founded his Baseball Academy and has worked ever since to develop out-of-season and in-season baseball training programs in Wayzata, Orono, and Hamel.