A lifelong baseball player, Collin grew up playing at Harundale Youth Sports League. He attended Glen Burnie High School where he made varsity as a freshman, starting at second base. The Gophers went on to win the Maryland 4a State Championship that year. Collin went on to play in a second State Championship game as a junior and reached a third State Semi-Final as a senior. As a senior he was selected to the Baltimore Sun All-County team as a second baseman.
Collin played a fall season at Alvernia College in PA before transferring to Frostburg State University (FSU) in Maryland. Collin excelled at FSU as a pitcher, recording 14.7 strikeouts per 9 innings and holding batters to a .237 average during his freshman season. That same year Collin was the game winning pitcher in the AMCC conference championship game, was named tournament MVP / AMCC Player Of The Week, and received the Academic All-Conference Team award.
Collin was selected to play for the Anderson Warriors in the MLB sanctioned Southern Collegiate Baseball League (SCBL) the summer after his freshman year. While playing for the Warriors Collin played under Major League greats Ivan Murrell and Pedro Borbon. Collin was also hired by Clemson University's head baseball coach Jack Leggett to work at the Clemson Summer Baseball Camp. Collin coached an elite team of 11 and 12 year old players from all over the country each week throughout the summer.
Forgoing an opportunity to play baseball at Clemson, Collin returned to Frostburg State. Entering into his second season at FSU he was named National Pitcher to Watch by Collegiate Baseball. Collin pitched another season at FSU posting a 2.88 ERA, 12.6 ks per 9 innings, and holding batters to a .174 average. That year he was selected to play in the SCBL and also the Alaska Baseball League before being sidelined by an arm injury that finished his playing career.
After college, Collin coached baseball at Long Reach High School for five years, coaching one year of JV and four years of Varsity. He also played baseball in the Chesapeake Men's Senior Baseball League. He gave up both to coach his son and daughter in youth sports.
Collin has been coaching youth baseball at EYO for the last eight years and youth softball for the last five. He developed a rec baseball team that won two consecutive championships, one at the 9/10 age group and the other at 11/12, and formed and coached a Sunday Select team and two tournament all-star teams. He also started the EYO Dubble Bubble Hurricanes rec softball team that won the 14U Howard County Alliance championship in 2024.
In the summer of 2022 he was selected to coach one of the three Hurricanes 12U travel teams. Collin is now entering his third year coaching that team.
Dave Roogow's baseball career began at the age of 6 when he started playing for the HCYP Rec League. Playing in the league until he reached high school, Dave was selected to the prestigious Memorial Day Tournament All Star Team each and every year. In high school, Dave took time off from the everyday grind of baseball to try other sports, including wrestling and lacrosse.
Dave Roogow's coaching career began on the wrestling mats at 21 years old when he was an Assistant Coach for the Eagles of Centennial High School in Ellicott City, MD. After a few years as serving as the team's top assistant, he took over the head coaching reigns where he lead the team to a 3rd place finish in the MPSSAA 4A/3A state tournament. Over his 14 years coaching high school wrestling, Dave had a hand in coaching and developing 8 state championship wrestlers and many more wrestlers who went on to wrestle at the collegiate level.
In 2016 Dave returned to the sport he loved and grew up on when he began coaching baseball in the Elkridge Youth Organization. Dave has held roles as both head coach and assistant coach at every youth level, including Summer All Star/Sunday Select teams. Dave also has been the head coach in EYO Softball of the legendary 13U Lime Green Canes for the past three seasons.
Dave has been a member of the staff since the summer of 2022.
Rob has a strong coaching background, coaching both baseball and football. He has been at EYO since 2016. In 2021 he led the 9/10 EYO Rockies before joining the EYO Green Machine in the spring of 2022. Rob helped coach The Green Machine to a Howard County Alliance Championship the team's first year in the 11/12 age group.
Rob also coached two EYO summer all-star tournament teams. In 2021 he was on the staff for the 10U EYO Green Tournament Team and in 2022 he was on the staff for the 12U EYO Orange Tournament Team.
Rob joined the staff in the summer of 2022.
Steven’s baseball career began on the fields of Havenwood, Pasadena back in the early eighties. After several years he transitioned to men’s softball and still plays in the prestigious Howard County Rec league to this date.
His baseball coaching career started in 2018 with a second place finish in the HCYP coach pitched division. That team moved to EYO in 2019 and went undefeated en route to the rookie league championship. After a year without baseball due to a pandemic shutdown Schwaab & son joined the Centineo trio in the minors. The team was able to produce two straight top three finishes against stiff competition. Steven then helped coach Summer All-Star teams in 2021/2022 and a Sunday Select squad in 2022.
Steven joined the coaching staff in the summer of 2022.
