Patrick McKenna has been around the Montreal Baseball Academy for a few years now.
In 2020, Patrick ran an independant baseball program, affiliated with Little League, the Tri-Lake Monsters. The program hired Ray Callari to host baseball clinics during summer to their players. The following year, the Tri-Lake Monsters wanted to be taken as a more serious program and approached Ray for his knowledge to help develop the young players in the program.
For fall 2021, the Tri-Lake Monsters became the first year-round MBA team. Patrick was an assistant-coach for this team.
During the winter of 2022, Patrick worked very hard with Ray Callari and Frank Martinez to build a top tier baseball program. Setting up a training program, building a schedule of games (league, tournaments, exhibitions), finding qualified coaches and trainers, preparing budgets, finding sponsors, etc. are all tasks that Patrick has masterfully managed with his two partners.
Even if Patrick still helps out on the field, his main fonctions are now mainly administrative ones. He's responsible of all the administrative duties such as accounting, financing and fundraising.
Patrick is also responsible of all the communications for the program (TeamSnap, GameChanger, emails), the social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and the new MBA website.
