09/18/2026
⚾ New season. New faces. Same Mustang pride. Please join us in welcoming our new Board President!
I would like to start by thanking our past board members, our sponsors, families, coaches, volunteers, and most importantly, our players.
My name is Kyle Mann. My wife, Brielle, and I have five beautiful children between the two of us, and being a husband and father has shaped the way I look at leadership, coaching, and the responsibility we have to the young people in our community.
I grew up playing Little League baseball right here in Perry County throughout my childhood. Playing baseball with my friends gave me some of my favorite childhood memories. I was also fortunate to have coaches in my life who not only helped me develop as a player, but helped me develop as a young man. Many of the lessons they taught me are lessons I still carry with me today.
That will be my number one priority as President of JMAA. I want our coaches and players to do things “the right way.” We cannot always control the outcome of a game or what the scoreboard says, but we can always control our effort, attitude, integrity, and sportsmanship. Years from now, our kids may not remember the score of a game they played when they were eight or nine years old, but they will remember their teammates, their coaches, and how being part of this organization made them feel.
I have worked with young people for over a decade. I coached junior varsity and varsity football at West Perry and have coached with JMAA for going on six years. I spent six years working at Loysville Youth Development Center and have spent the last four years working with the Keystone State ChalleNGe Academy a Quasi Military Program. Leading, mentoring, coaching, and developing young people has become my life’s work. But of all the things I have accomplished, nothing means more to me than being a father and having the opportunity to coach my own children.
Because of that, I will always try to look at our players the same way I look at my own kids. I want what is best for them. I want them to succeed, I want them to be safe, I want them to have fun, and I want them to leave JMAA better than when they arrived—not just as baseball players, but as young people.
One of the greatest assets we have is our community. I love this community and the people in it, and I believe that if we work together, we can continue to grow JMAA and create even more opportunities for our players and families.
The board and I cannot do that alone. I ask everyone to support JMAA in whatever capacity you can. Maybe that means coaching a team, helping in the concession stand, cleaning up a field, finding a sponsor, volunteering at an event, or simply giving a teammate a ride to practice. Not everyone can give the same amount of time, and that is okay. What matters is that we all find a way to contribute. When our community comes together, our kids are the ones who benefit.
I also know that I will not always get everything right.
There may be decisions I make that some people disagree with, and there will undoubtedly be challenges along the way. What I can promise is that I will be transparent, authentic, willing to listen, and open to difficult conversations and differences of opinion. The safety and well-being of our kids will always come first, and every decision we make should ultimately come back to what is best for them and for the future of JMAA.
As we look toward Spring 2027 and beyond, I want JMAA to stand for something bigger than baseball. The letters themselves represent the values we want to instill in every young person who puts on a JMAA uniform:
J — Journey. Appreciating the experiences, friendships, successes, failures, and lessons that come along the way.
M — Mastery. Continuing to learn, improve, and work toward becoming better every day.
A — Accountability. Taking responsibility for our actions, our effort, our teammates, and the commitments we make.
A — Attitude. Choosing how we respond to adversity, how we treat others, and how we represent ourselves, our families, our teams, and our community.
Those values apply to our players, but they also apply to our coaches, board members, volunteers, and to me as President. If we live up to them, the wins and losses will eventually fade, but what our kids learn and who they become will last much longer.
That is what I want for JMAA.
Developing better players. Building better people.
-Kyle
