Instructors

CloseChris Estep

Master Instructor
Hitting
5-Tool Program
Functional Fitness Certified

Chris founded Roundtripper Sports Academy in 1993 after finishing his 7.5-year professional baseball career. Prior to playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, and Montreal Expos, Chris was named an All-American at the University of Kentucky. Chris has coached and instructed men and women of all ages for over 20 years. Chris’s clients include players of all levels, including collegiate and the professional ranks. Chris is currently the head baseball coach at University High School. His superb expertise in hitting has made him one of the most respected instructors in the country.

Chris is currently the Head of Player Training and Development for the Indiana Mustangs baseball organization, while also serving as a coach.

CloseScott Shirley

Lead Instructor
Hitting/Fielding

Scott has been with RoundTripper for over 20 years and has coached with the Indiana Mustangs program for over 10 of those years. Scott graduated from Ball State University with a degree in Elementary and Secondary Education. He also has a degree in Physical Education and taught at Sheridan High School. Scott coached for five years at the high-school varsity baseball and softball levels, and he was also part of the football coaching staff at Sheridan High School and Noblesville High School. His patience and positive, upbeat personality have made him a favorite instructor with elementary and middle-school aged students.

Scott is the lead instructor and program director for RoundTripper’s Instructional Classes and Tiny Tots program.

CloseCesar Barrientos

Lead Instructor
Hitting/Catching

Currently an Assistant Coach at Wabash College, Cesar has been involved in the game of baseball in the state of Indiana for the past 15 years. As founder of the Indiana Baseball Academy and IBA Storm travel organization, he has worked with clients ranging from youths to professional ball players. He has placed countless baseball and softball players in the collegiate ranks during his coaching career. Cesar has also been involved with independent baseball leagues, and he has assisted with multiple professional tryouts with the Evansville Otters and Traverse City Beach Bums. Coach Barrientos has a strong ability to advance players' fundamentals, explain the physics of baseball in order to improve performance, and develop well-rounded, intelligent players.

CloseGarrett Christman

Associate Instructor
Hitting/Infield/Pitching
Professional Baseball Player (San Francisco Giants)

A Noblesville, Indiana, native and Noblesville High School alumnus, Garrett is currently a professional baseball pitcher in the San Francisco Giants Organization. Before signing his pro contract, Garrett attended Butler University, where he was a four-year starter as a shortstop/third basemen as well as a starting pitcher. He graduated Butler in May 2018 with a degree in Human Movement Health Science Education. Growing up in Noblesville, Garrett has been a student at RoundTripper, learning the game of baseball from Chris Estep and the RoundTripper staff while playing for the Indiana Mustangs during his middle-school and high-school years.

Garrett currently brings his knowledge of the game to RoundTripper by working as an instructor during the off-season.

CloseEduardo Villacis

Coach Villacis was originally signed by the Colorado Rockies as a rookie free agent out of Venezuela in 1998, under the recommendation of scout and former big leaguer Jorge Posada. Villacis started his career in the Rockies Minor Leagues ystem in 2000, playing for them in parts of five seasons before being dealt to Kansas City in exchange for colleague pitcher Bryan Rekar. On May 1, 2004, the Royals called up him to start a game against the New York Yankees in Yankee Stadium. On May 26, the Chicago White Sox claimed Villacis off waivers from Kansas City and optioned him to Double-A Birmingham Barons.

In 2006, Villacis played for the Atlantic City Surf of the independent Atlantic League, during what turned out to be his final year in baseball. Overall, he posted a 29-17 record with a 3.58 earned run average in 145 career minor league games, including 49 starts, from 2000–2006. In between, Villacis played winter ball with the Leones del Caracas and Tiburones de La Guaira clubs of the Venezuelan League during seven seasons spanning 1998–2005. He started eight games and relieved in 97 more, going 8-5 with a 3.87 ERA and one save in 151 innings of work.

Coach Villacis then began his coaching career and has made multiple stops in the MLB coaching system. From 2007 - 2008 he was the pitching coach for the Colorado Rockies at the pioneer league. In 2010 Coach Villacis was the Manager / Player with the Bern Cardinals in the Swiss league in Europe. Then from 2011 - 2012 he pitching coach for the Zulia Aguilas In the Venezuelan winter league. From 2014 - 2018 he served as the pitching coach for the Chicago Cubs at The Venezuelan Summer league ( VSL ) and at the Dominican Summer League ( DSL ) and was the pitching coach for the Arizona Diamond Backs 2019 - 2020.

CloseJaylen Cushenberry

Cushenberry played several years of travel for the Irvington Rattlers (9u- 16u) and at Warren Central High School before Transferring to Avon High School.

Cushenberry is currently going in his fourth year as a coach in youth travel baseball. Getting his start as a 12u Assistant Coach and quickly climbing the ladder, promoted to 12u Head Coach halfway through the season, and also having experience coaching 14u and 15u as well. He is currently the hitting and out fielding Coach for Plainfield High School.

In his last semesters of college, Cushenberry has his sights on becoming a Physical Education teacher.

CloseAndrew Quinn

Associate Instructor
Pitching/Hitting

Andrew Quinn was a four-year letter-winner at DePauw University. He was a two-time All-Conference starting pitcher for the Tigers, and helped lead them to two NCAA regional appearances--including his senior year as team captain, when the team set a school record with 33 wins and a top-20 ranking nationally. Quinn was also an All-State pitcher in high school.

Quinn has played alongside many current professional baseball players, and has worked alongside former pros such as Matt Whiteside, Scott Cooper, and Scott Terry. He spent a summer in the collegiate Prospect League, where he earned pitcher-of-the-week honors and multiple NCAA Division III spotlight honors. Quinn is currently an Assistant coach at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN.

Quinn is currently the Head Coach for the 15u Colts Baseball Club organization.

CloseEric Wott
Associate Instructor
Pitching/Infield/Hitting
Performance Training – Speed & Agility

Eric Wott grew up playing the game of baseball and is among the many RoundTripper Alumni. Having played travel ball for Cesar Barrientos, he too has a similar skill set of having the ability to advance players' fundamentals, explain the physics of baseball in order improve performance, and develop well-rounded, intelligent players. A graduate of University High School, Wott started for Chris Estep on the Varsity Baseball team all four years. He continued his playing career at Bellarmine University, located in Louisville Kentucky, playing 3rd base and relief pitcher. Currently finishing his degree in Fitness Management and Personal Training, minoring in Wellness Coaching at IUPUI, he is coaching and instructing here at RoundTripper. Coach Wott specializes in pitching, hitting, and performance training for speed and agility.

Wott is currently a Head Coach for the Indiana Mustangs 14u- Wott.

CloseMadison is a graduate of Park Tudor High School and Olivet Nazarene University where he excelled in baseball at both institutions. At Olivet Nazarene he was a 4 year starter as a pitcher and hitter and won the Conference Player of the Year award in his senior season. At Park Tudor Madison was a 4 time All Conference award winner as well as a 2 time All State award winner (once as a pitcher, once as a hitter). In addition to these awards he was also a member of the North South All Star baseball team and received All State honors in football as a wide receiver.

Here is a little information about Madison's Coaching philosophies:

"I believe that it's a coach's job to set culture and expectations with his/her team (attitude and effort), and it's up to the player to have the integrity to follow through on those expectations. How you do anything is how you do everything."

As a hitting coach, I believe whole-heartedly that kids need to be taught the importance of hitting line drives in an era where exit velocity and home runs are all the rage. I also believe in teaching the mental side of hitting, like how to approach different pitchers and what we can do to have
competitive at-bats no matter who we're facing.

Madison has been an private instructor at RoundTripper as well as a Varsity assistant and hitting coach at Park Tudor HS and previously was an assistant coach for a 16U Mustangs team. His personal interests include spending time with his wife and two sons, traveling, and golfing.

CloseGabbi Schnaiter

Associate Instructor
Fastpitch Pitching

At Fishers High School Gabbi was a Varsity starter for four season, All-Hoosier Crossroads Conference three consecutive seasons, All-Hamilton County first team for four seasons, 2016 Hamilton County Player of the Year, the career and season record holder for strikeouts, wins, ERA, and innings pitched at Fishers HS, 2016 first team All-State selection, Indianapolis Star Super Softball Team in 2016, a 2016 Indiana All-Star, team MVP in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and was the first softball player on the FHS Athletic Wall of Fame.

Gabbi continued her playing career first at Butler University where she led the team in innings pitched as a Freshman. After transferring to Indiana State for her Junior season, Gabbi lead the Sycamores in innings pitched and ERA that year. She concluded her college career in 2021 striking out 225 batters, good for 8th all time in single season strikeouts for the Sycamores.

CloseSoftball has been part of Stephanie Kleiner’s life for more than 30 years - it is a lifelong passion. She has both played and coached at highly competitive levels, and brings more than a decade of coaching experience to Indiana Magic Gold. Excelling at player development, game preparation and in-game strategy, Stephanie grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and played travel ball for 9 years travelling all over the US. While playing for Deerfield High School (Deerfield, IL) Stephanie earned All-Conference and All-State Honors in Softball as a junior and senior. Stephanie was a pitcher and outfielder while in high school. Following in family footsteps, she attended Indiana University, and while there she earned the honor of walking on the Indiana University Softball team. Professionally Stephanie became a school teacher.

Stephanie has coached at the PGF and Showcase level throughout her career. She takes the time to attend various coaching clinics in the Midwest. After teaching in the elementary classroom, Stephanie chose to continue her "teaching" on the field instead of in the classroom. Stephanie specializes in fielding and pitching, and gives private lessons as well as classes. Coaching is a full time career for Stephanie now with Indiana Magic Gold and University High School.

CloseCoach Vernon Smith joins Roundtripper as our Head Director of Sports Performance. Coach Smith comes to us from Marian University where he spend 13 years as the Director of Strength and Conditioning at Marian University. While at Marian Coach Smith oversaw 26 different sports and helped lead multiple teams to both conference and national championships. In addition to working at the collegiate level, Coach Smith has privately trained youth, collegiate, professional and even Olympic level athletes. Coach Vern’s coaching style includes a mixed variation of training types, depending on the sport and individual athletes’ ability. His background working with various athletes of different genders, ages, and sports allows him to adapt quickly and help take any athlete to the next level and help them reach their goals.

Vernon Smith was a collegiate football player at Marian University. After his sophomore year of college he suffered a knee injury which led to a reconstruction surgery. He battled back from his injury to play one final football season. In 2010 following his final season as a player, Vern became a strength and conditioning coach at Marian University where he eventually became the director of strength and conditioning. Vern has also been named the strongest strength coach in the world. He currently resides in Westfield with his wife and three daughters.

CloseLogan Hug

Associate Instructor
Pitching/Hitting
Speed/Strength
CSCS

A former RoundTripper student, Logan played 4 years at Pike High School as well as with the Pony Express travel program. Hug played his first two years of collegiate baseball at Ancilla College as a second baseman and pitcher. He finished his collegiate career at Manchester University, where he earned a degree in Exercise Science. Logan earned All-Conference honors his junior year at Manchester while leading the team to a conference championship. He then earned All-Conference honorable mention honors as a senior. Logan is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA.

Logan currently serves as a head coach for the Indiana Mustangs organization.