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Coaching Staff
Corbin Weeks - Owner
Corbin Weeks currently serves as an Assistant Baseball Coach at Montreat College (NC).Weeks is the Catching Coach, assists with high school recruiting, and oversees baseball operations.
Coach Weeks began his coaching career at Florida 8A powerhouse George Jenkins High School (Lakeland, Fla.) for the 2017 season, before accepting the head coaching job at Mulberry High School (Mulberry, Fla.) for the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
Prior to his coaching career, Weeks pursued his baseball career at Southeastern University under Coach Jason Beck. The Fire finished in as the runner-up at the 2013 NCCAA D1 National Championship, losing to Cal Baptist University. In 2014, Weeks helped lead the Fire to their best season in program history (46-16), while winning The Sun Conference for the first time in school history. The Fire fell just short of the NAIA World Series after losing to Georgia Gwinnett in the regional final. In 2015, Weeks’ season was cut short due to a career-ending arm injury.
Coach Weeks graduated from Evangelical Christian School in 2012, where he was a four-year letterman playing baseball and football. Weeks accumulated several accolades including: 3x News Press All-Area First Team, 2011 WWBA & BCS Perfect Game All-Tournament Team, 2012 ESPN First Team All-State, 2012 Perfect Game Pre-Season All-American, 2012 Under Armor Pre-Season All-American, and was the second-place finisher in the sixth annual Power Showcase International High School Home Run Derby at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Weeks and his wife, Sydnie, reside in Asheville, North Carolina.
Rick De Armas- Director of Operations
Coach Rick De Armas joins the NLB N.C. family from Marion, N.C. Coach De Armas began his college career at Southeastern University in Lakeland, FL before transferring to Montreat College. In 2014, Coach De Armas earned All- Sun Conference Honors and helped lead the SEU Fire to the schools first conference championship and NAIA World Series Opening Round appearance.
Coach De Armas has been working in youth baseball in the Marion area for the past two years with his Deep Fly Baseball Academy.
Jason Beck
Rafael Padilla
Coach Rafael Padilla joins the NLB N.C. coaching staff from Patagonia, Arizona.
Coach Padilla began his college career at Pima Community College in Arizona. After 2 standout years in the NJCAA, Padilla transferred to D1 Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona, FL.
After a BCU shutdown due to COVID, Padilla transferred to Montreat College.
Brian Pegg
Tyler Best
Donovan Parker
Dayton Woods
