Ben Hestley

Coaching Duties: Head Coach - Middle School Black

Years at Lakeside: First year (2024).

Years Coaching: 6th year coaching baseball. 20+ years coaching tennis.

Coaching Experience:

  • DHYS Devils 11U and 12U Manager/2023-2024

  • DHYS Devils 10U Coach/2022

  • Individual Baseball Coach/2021-present

  • DHGC Director of Tennis /2008-2021

Education:

  • Central Alabama Community College

  • University of North Alabama

Personal Bio: played 4 years of varsity tennis at the collegiate level (2000-2004). Represented home state of Alabama in the 1998 AAU Junior Olympics. In 2021, after 14 years as Tennis Director at Druid Hills Golf Club, started my own company, Bull Shark Sports, focused on helping kids in our community become better athletes, primarily through the sports of tennis, baseball, and softball. My wife Heather and I have two children, Turner (12) and Sophia (8) and we live in Sagamore Hills.  

Baseball Philosophy: Move fast, hit the ball hard. Good things will happen.