Dan Flanick is the owner and head coach of SkanStrength in Skaneateles, New York, and enters his third year as the Associate Head Baseball Coach at Cayuga Community College.

Dan has spent more than twenty-five years in athletics as an athlete, strength and conditioning coach, and sport coach. His career began in the Hudson Valley, where early success in competitive sports led to a Division II baseball scholarship at Molloy College. After stepping away from the game after his freshman year of college — following the loss of a family member and a period of burnout — he found his way back through coaching and athletic development.

He transferred to Ithaca College to study Exercise Science, graduating in 2014, and then served as a Strength & Conditioning intern at Cornell University, working across baseball, football, basketball, track and field, and equestrian sports. 

In 2014, he moved on to Baylor University as a Graduate Assistant in one of the country's top Division I programs, training under Coach Kaz Kazadi — the 2013 Collegiate Strength Coach of the Year — while working with football, tennis, acrobatics and tumbling, and cross-country. He earned his Master's in Sport Pedagogy (Physical Educaton) at Baylor in 2015.

After graduate school, Dan returned home to Central New York. In 2017, he and his family opened SkanStrength in a 500-square-foot space below a local bar, and over the years that followed they grew it into an 8,800-square-foot facility serving thousands of people across a wide range of ages, abilities, and athletic goals.

Over his career, Dan has worked with an unusually broad range of athletes — youth, high school, and college players across baseball, softball, lacrosse, hockey, basketball, soccer, wrestling, tennis, and golf — as well as individuals with disabilities, including athletes with Down syndrome, autism, and other intellectual and developmental disabilities.

A former catcher himself, Dan brings deep baseball experience to his work, having coached catching, hitting, throwing, and all-around development from the youth and Little League levels through high school and college. Today he runs Baseball School CNY and serves on the baseball staff at Cayuga, where he leads day-to-day player development, catching instruction, and strength and conditioning for the NJCAA program.

His approach combines strength and conditioning, sport-specific skill development, sound pedagogy, and the mental skills and confidence athletes need to perform — all built around a long-view philosophy of sustainable athletic development. He's especially focused on what keeps athletes healthy and improving over years, not just weeks and seasons.

Dan holds a B.S. in Exercise Science from Ithaca College and a Master's in Sport Pedagogy (Physical Education) from Baylor University.

Cregg Scherrer is a Skaneateles native and former semi-professional baseball player.

A 2019 graduate of Skaneateles High School, Cregg was a four-year varsity player and earned All-CNY honors in both 2018 and 2019. He was also named an Under Armour Preseason All-American his senior year — one of the top underclassman distinctions in the country.

Cregg took his game to the Division I level at the University at Albany, where he spent five seasons (2019–2024) in the America East Conference. In the summer of 2022, he earned a roster spot in the Cape Cod Baseball League — widely regarded as the most competitive summer collegiate league in the country — and helped his team capture the Cape League Championship that season.

Since 2025, Cregg has played professionally with the Trenton Thunder and the Rocky Mountain Vibes.

Coach Cregg works with youth, high school, and college athletes on all aspects of the sport ranging from baseball to hitting and fielding, healthy mindsets, and habits that carried him from Skaneateles baseball to the professional level.

Coach Phil is a coach with 25+ years of experience with pitching and instruction. Phil grew up in Northwest Indiana where he began playing baseball at 6 years old and eventually earning a scholarship to Division II Purdue Northwest University.

In 2017, Phil earned his Bachelor of Science-Biology from Purdue University, where he then began his coaching career with the Pride. He worked with Dave Griffin and Shane Prance to develop a velocity and strength program for the Pride.

After his stint at PNW, he had the opportunity to coach in Palm Springs where he coached top prospects through NCAA/NAIA/Junior College Athletics. His time there was developing collegiate athletes to move them on with their already recognizable statistics and to provide them the opportunity to move onto conferences throughout the country.

Madvek’s summer opportunity brought him to Ohio, where he was a strength and conditioning coach and assistant pitching coach as a graduate assistant at Tiffin University. With the Dragons, he was under Joe Wilkins and Brandon Cantrill, where he worked together with them to develop a strength/velocity program to get them to winning the conference tournament his first season. His experience kept the team in the running with statistics all around conference and injury free throughout the season.

Madvek’s latest experience brough him to D-Bat Mokena as a pitching instructor/coach. He moved to New York in 2020 where he is currently a Science Teacher in the Syracuse City School District and a pitching instructor throughout Onondaga County (SkanStrength).

John Rizzo — Head Coach

• 3-time Conference Champions (2022, 2023, 2025)
• 4 Regional Playoff Appearances (2022–2025)
• Conference Coach of the Year (2022)

John Rizzo enters his seventh season as Head Coach of the Cayuga Spartans baseball team. He joined Cayuga in 2019 as an Assistant Coach under his mentor, TJ Gamba, before taking over the program.

In his six seasons at the helm, Coach Rizzo has built one of the region's most consistent winners — including a 31-win 2025–26 campaign and a career record of 141–80. 

His teams have captured three Conference Championships (2022, 2023, 2025) and earned four straight trips to the Regional Tournament (2022–2025).

Coach Rizzo was named MSAC Coach of the Year in 2022. Under his tenure, 16 Spartans have been named All-Region, and Hazel Martinez (2022) was named Region III Player of the Year. Martinez (2022) and Jeremy Recio (2025) were each named Conference Player of the Year, with Martinez also earning First-Team All-American honors. 

Three players have been awarded Rawlings Gold Gloves, including Auburn native Kevin Dolan.

Coach Wurster enters his second year as an Assistant Coach at Cayuga, bringing a strong background in outfield play and base running to the Spartans' staff.

Wurster began his own collegiate career with Cayuga, where he spent most of his time patrolling center field. A reliable bat at the top of the order, he finished as a .307 career hitter with 46 hits, 11 doubles, 3 triples, and 2 home runs. He went on to complete his playing career at SUNY Oneonta, starting 60 games and collecting 44 hits along the way.

At Cayuga, Wurster serves as the first base coach and works primarily with the outfielders and base runners — sharpening reads and routes, jumps and first-step quickness, and the kind of aggressive, smart base running that turns singles into doubles and pressures defenses into mistakes.

He continues to develop as a coach under Coach Rizzo, learning a well-rounded, long-term approach to baseball development that he brings to the players he works with.