Trevor Whitman
My Playing Journey
My young baseball journey looked very similar to most. Little league, into middle school, to high school. I played for and graduated from Sumner High School. My junior year I tore the supraspinatus tendon in my shoulder, which led to complete shoulder reconstruction surgery. That experience has led to intense study of arm health, care and recovery. My playing days ended in high school and it is a main priority of mine to not let that be a story of any player that plays on a team I coach. While I was able to play, I loved the hot corner and coming in to close games out of the bullpen. I believe high pressure moments can bring out the best in players with the right mindset and my experience loving those moments leads players to thrive in them too.
My Coaching Experience
I have been coaching multiple sports since 2013. Right out of college I began by teaching at Life Christian Academy and coaching middle school baseball and basketball. While I was at LCA, I coached middle school and high school basketball, baseball and was the varsity head coach for the boys golf team. In 2019, I was hired as the Head Baseball Coach at Mount Tahoma High School and was there up until recently, when I resigned in May of 2026. Within my last season, Mount Tahoma was voted for the "Sportsmanship" award and I was voted "Coach of the Year" by my peers. I just accepted a new role as an assistant coach for the Silas Varsity Baseball team that will begin the spring of 2027. Outside of school ball, I have spent the last two summers coaching for WoW Factor, where I was tasked with putting together a group of 2027s that were some of the best players from Washington State. That team won 3 of the 4 tournaments they entered and got 2nd in the other. I'm excited to begin my journey with TBC as an assistant for the 18U College Prep team under Coach Tanay's leadership.
Who I Am & What I Value
My leadership style revolves heavily around leaning into what makes each player great. I believe in getting to know your players to a degree where you know what motivates them, what shuts them down, how to encourage them and to hold them accountable when needed. There is great value in creating an environment with high standards combined with great care for who players are as young men. The game of baseball is a perfect parable for life in the ups and downs, the trials and triumphs, along with the lessons you learn along the way. Being an example and mentor to young men, demonstrating the characteristics I teach first, develops buy-in that helps to bring out the best version of themselves. I deeply value the players that choose to apply themselves to this process and work every day to find the depths of what they are truly capable of.
Outside of baseball, I keep busy chasing around my three kids, Owen, Eleanor and Harrison alongside my wife Sally. We treat coaching as our family mission to give back to the community and you will see them at as many games as they can get to, playing catch on the sidelines and cheering on the guys on the field. They have their own games and practices, so you will often see me blitzing out of one to get to the other.
The emphasis you will hear out of me time and time again, is that when young men are challenged to be men of integrity, character, honor, grit and tenacity off the field, that will directly translate to the type of players they can be on it. There are a finite amount of innings that each guy gets to play. For me, that was cut short in high school. Which when seen in context, helps one to appreciate every pitch, every play, every at bat and high five. When you combine gratitude and strong character with a coachable mentality and relentless motor, guys will find the best version of themselves. And I see it as my personal mission to help every guy that I coach to discover that within themselves.
