Coaches

Varsity HEAD COACH - Todd Hartman

Coach Todd Hartman is entering his 3rd year as the Varsity baseball coach at Forest Hills Central High School. Previously, he spent the past thirteen seasons as the Junior Varsity head baseball coach at Forest Hills Central. As Catholic Central High School graduate, he played baseball and football for the Cougars. Coach Hartman attended Grand Valley State University where he played linebacker for the Lakers football team while majored in Psychology and Special Education.

Coach Hartman has a passion for coaching. He has been an assistant Varsity football coach for the past 18 years at FHC. Prior to being hired at FHC, Coach Hartman spent three years coaching collegiate football at Grand Valley State University.

Coach Hartman is married to his wife of fifteen years, Sarah. They have two children, Katherine and JT.

Coach Hartman is extremely excited about the opportunity to build the Ranger baseball program at every level, and has very high expectations for the athletes in the classroom, on the field, and in life.

Contact: thartman@fhps.net

Varsity Assistant - Lang Davis

Coach Davis has been at FHC for 12 years, he coached the freshman baseball team from 2011 to 2014 and JV baseball in 2018.

Coach Davis played high school varsity baseball at Grand Rapids Catholic Central for 2 seasons, in 1992 and 1993.

Coach Davis graduated from Western Michigan University in 1998. He returned to school in 2003 to pursue his degree in education at Grand Valley State University. Upon completion of his degree he was hired at FHC where he has remained since the 2007/2008 school year.

Coach Davis is married to Laura and they have two children, Ryan and John.

Contact: ldavis@fhps.net

Varsity assistant - Kevin Delapaz

Coach Kevin Delapaz is new to the Forest Hills Central baseball coaching staff and is excited to help continue the growth of a championship program and high character young men.

He has been involved in baseball for most of his life growing up in Plymouth, Michigan. Coach Delapaz played varsity baseball and football at Canton High School and continued his baseball career for four years as a pitcher at Bowling Green State University where his team won the 2013 MAC tournament.

After graduating from BGSU with a degree in education, Coach Delapaz taught for three years in Munich, Germany, spent a year in Australia, and now is happy to be back in his home state as a teacher in the Forest Hills school district.

Coach Delapaz is married to Ebony who is also a teacher in the Forest Hills School District. She is an Australian who is excited for her first experience of how great the community of an American high school sports program can be!

VARSITY ASSISTANT - GREG HUDKINS

Coach Hudkins was a 3 sport athlete at Monroe High School in Michigan. From there he continued his athletic career at Mount Union College (now the University of Mount Union) playing both football and baseball. He transferred to Siena Heights College in Adrian Michigan to continue his baseball career before being forced to retire as an athlete due to health reasons.

Coach Hudkins began his baseball coaching career at the age of 15 as a tee ball coach! He has coached at various levels of school baseball from 8th grade to the varsity at various schools. He has also coached travel ball teams in the summer. Coach Hudkins has 33 years of coaching football at the high school level as a head coach and an assistant where he was regional coach of the year 7 times and State runner up coach of the year once. He has also coached track and field and wrestling.

Coach Hudkins is married to his wife Stacie of 22 years. They have 3 children: Kate, Grace, and Ty. He is excited to join the FHC baseball program and looks forward to helping the players become better people, students, and athletes.

JV HEAD COACH- JOE PAYNE

I am excited to join the Ranger baseball program as your new JV Baseball Coach. It is my honor to coach this team in a successful season. We have a tremendous amount of talent in this group and my focus is on player development. I bring years of experience as a former collegiate baseball athlete for both GRCC and GVSU. In 1996, it was a joy to be back with GVSU's baseball team as an assistant coach. More recently I spent five seasons as the JV coach at Forest Hills Northern High School. For the past 18 years I have been the Physical Education teacher at Meadow Brook Elementary. Teaching my students and players how to be smart on and off the field to make healthy choices is a priority of mine.

I look forward to meeting you and being part of Ranger athletics.

Freshman HEAD COACH - Paul GRADY

Coach Grady has been involved in youth and high school sports for 23+ years. He has coached baseball at the Freshman and JV levels assisting Coach Lang Davis and at the JV level as an assistant to Coach Hartman. He also had the privilege as a volunteer coach under Coach Ken George for three years at the Varsity level.

Coach Grady attended West Catholic High School in the late 1970’s early 80’s and played basketball and baseball in High School. He graduated from Ferris State University in 1986 with a degree in accounting with a minor in finance.

Coach Grady has a passion and love for working with high school athletes and brings that excitement every day to the practice and playing field. Coach Grady brings a competitive spirit to the game, but has a talent to make sure every player has a positive experience with the team. In his spare time, Coach Grady owns and operates a logistic company based out of Grand Rapids.

Coach Grady has been married for 31 years to Carolyn (The Real Coach), and with her help has raised three adult sons, Michael, Brandon, and Patrick who all played baseball at FHC at some level.

Contact: Pgrady29@yahoo.com

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