7120 Golden Ring Rd Suite 123 Essex, MD 21221
Andrew Sacks
CSCS, CPT, CSAC
Andrew Sacks is a Certifed Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA), Certified Speed and Agility Coach (NSPA), Certified Personal Trainer (NSCA), and the Owner and Head of Strength and Conditioning at Prime Sports Performance in Baltimore, Maryland. Andrew graduated from Frostburg State University in 2009 with a double major in Exercise Science and Psychology. While at Frostburg, he played on two conference championship baseball teams and made two trips to the NCAA regional tournament.
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Since becoming a certified trainer in 2009, Andrew has trained athletes of all ages and skill levels, ranging from 9-year-olds to elite Division 1 and professional athletes. Andrew specializes in designing individualized programs for each athlete based on the unique demands of their sport and position, and his training techniques have recently produced some of the best athletes in the Baltimore area, including 2 Baltimore Sun Players of the Year, the 2014 Gatorade Softball Player of the Year, the 2016 Varsity Sports Network Pitcher of the Year, the 2018 Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year, the 2019 Baltimore County Baseball Player of the year, the 2022 Baltimore County Pitcher of the Year, the 2024 Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year, and countless All-County, All-Metro, and All-State athletes. Andrew has also trained pro athletes from the Baltimore Orioles, Arizona Diamondbacks, Minnesota Twins, Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Washington Nationals, and Chicago White Sox organizations, as well as teams from the independent Frontier League and Atlantic League, and the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.
Andrew's training methods are focused on developing speed, strength, explosiveness, and overall athleticism in each of his athletes, as well as teaching proper lifting technique. Andrew's athletes typically see great improvements that carry over to their on-field performance, and see a drastically reduced injury rate as a result of their training. In addition to his years of experience training athletes, Andrew has also worked in a rehab setting at Union Memorial Sports Medicine, where he assisted in implementing elbow and shoulder rehab programs for injured throwers.
Andrew is also a fitness writer whose work can be found on several top-tier fitness and training websites including Stack.com, T-Nation.com, and elitebaseballperformance.com, and the upcoming NSCA textbook Strength Training for Lacrosse.
PSP coaches
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sPORTS pERFORMANCE cOACH
Brandon attended and played college baseball at CCBC Dundalk and Davis and Elkins College, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science in 2019. Prior to graduation, Brandon completed an internship during the summer of 2018 at Prime Sports Performance, and was hired as a strength and conditioning coach after graduating.
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Brandon has a high level of experience in baseball, and was a part of a North Harford High School team that reached the state finals in 2014. During his collegiate career he played in the NJCAA with regional tournament appearances and eventually wrapped up his college career in the NCAA at the Division 2 level at Davis and Elkins.
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Brandon specializes in training athletes for baseball or softball youth and high school in both team settings and individualized programs. He also specializes in designing programs for youth athletes that are new to training to teach basic concepts and correct movement patterns to help them become better overall athletes.
Ian arciaga
Hitting INstructor
Ian comes from a baseball background, having played for Our Lady of Mt. Carmel High School, where he was an MIAA all conference selection three straight years on the baseball team and won a MIAA championship in 2011.
During Ian’s collegiate career he was a starter for Division 1 Coppin State University, where he led the team as a freshman in several offensive categories. Ian then transferred to Hawaii Pacific University and led the team in home runs his senior season. Ian has also played in the Costal Plains and Cal Ripken Sr. Summer collegiate leagues .
After graduation, Ian began his coaching career beginning with the Diamond Pros Baseball of the Maryland Collegiate Summer league, and now currently is the assistant coach at Parkville High. Ian also assists in teaching hitting for FTB baseball scout teams.
Ian specializes in hitting and fielding instruction for baseball and softball players
Danny Shomaker
throwing instructor
Danny Shomaker is a native of Sammamish, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. Danny has the unique distinction of having coached pitchers at the collegiate level while simultaneously being certified through the NSCA as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist.
Danny began his coaching career in Bellevue, WA as an assistant coach with Lakeside Recovery Baseball Club from 2017-2020. Afterward, he moved on to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in 2021 where he was an assistant for the North Idaho Legends while training pitchers out of a backyard garage with one of those pitchers being selected for the Kansas City Royals Area Code team.
In 2022 he was hired in a dual role as the Pitching and Strength & Conditioning Coach at Treasure Valley Community College (NWAC) in Ontario, Oregon. In his lone season with the Chukars, the team ERA was reduced by 20 percent and free passes were reduced by 33 percent.
In August of 2023, Danny was brought onto the coaching staff at Southwest Mississippi Community College (NJCAA D2, Region XXIII, MACCC). In the spring of 2024, the Bears pitchers broke their previous single season strikeout record of 317 by over 100 strikeouts.
dariel torres
hitting instructor
Dariel Torres is a hitting instructor and a player agent at The MAS Agency, where he works with professional baseball players including Austin Hays, Oscar Gonzalez, and Elias Diaz among others. He is currently a supervisor and scout in the mid-Atlantic region for MAS, and is a former college baseball player at Miami-Dade College and West Virginia Tech University. Dariel is also the older brother of Jse Torres, a current player in the Cincinnati Reds organization and Calvert Hall All-American shortstop.
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Dariel's teaching methods are designed to help hitters increase their power and hit-for-average tools, optimize their swing mechanics, and dial in their mental approach at the plate.