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Charles Amante

President & General Manager

Brent Concolino

Head of Baseball Development

Eric Whitmer

Information, Marketing & Technology

BIOGRAPHY

Charles Amante

Charles has served as an Executive Board Member at South Sunrise Little League in Orange, California for over ten years with seven years as the league’s President. He led the league to 35% total growth in registration over seven years and oversaw several large scale projects, including fundraising for new bullpen construction, new scoreboard installation, batting cage renovation, and obtaining a $20,000 grant to renovate the league’s upper division fields, His primary goal as President was to not only grow the league’s registration numbers, but also improve the quality of the baseball product and experience for the 400+ players & families involved in the league.

Charles’ true passion is for coaching. For over ten years, he has managed and coached all levels of youth recreational and club baseball from 6u-14u, leading teams to Little League District regular season and all-star championships. In 2022, Charles’ Southies Select 12u team placed 18th out of 60+ teams at the Cooperstown All-Star Village international tournament in Cooperstown, New York.
 
Charles also works as VP of Finance & Accounting at an investment management firm in Aliso Viejo and holds an M.B.A. in Finance and B.S. in Business Management from Pepperdine University. He and his wife, Erica, have three children, James, Claire and Miles.
Charles Amante

President & General Manager

BIOGRAPHY

Brent Concolino​

Brent Concolino was born and raised in Orange County, CA. In 1999 Brent started at ROCK Institute for Sports Performance Training for Baseball, Football, Soccer and Lacrosse. Brent went on to Letter every year in all sports he played in high-school as well as becoming League MVP in Baseball and honored with all league selections. In Baseball, Brent had the fortunate opportunity to play for former professional pitcher Mark Langston, 3-time MLB league strikeout leader, who played 16 years in professional baseball with teams such as the Anaheim Angels, San Diego Padres and Cleveland Indians. Langston considered Brent as “one of the best natural Athletes to come out of Orange County I have ever seen”.

In 2003 Brent was voted a top Southern California player of the year by California Coaches Association. After multiple Tommy John Surgerys from Dr. Lewis Yocum. Brent continued training and rehabbing and was able to make a comeback at UCLA in 2006 where he encountered another challenge during the year: still another “Tommy John” surgery occurred at the end of the 2006 year as well as a nerve Transplant. Brent Graduated from UCLA and continued to study Sports Medicine and the history of Sports Injuries and realized that too many athletes were being physically and mentally destroyed by the old school way of sports training at such a young age.
Brent Concolino was born and raised in Orange County, CA. In 1999 Brent started at ROCK Institute for Sports Performance Training for Baseball, Football, Soccer and Lacrosse. Brent went on to Letter every year in all sports he played in high-school as well as becoming League MVP in Baseball and honored with all league selections. In Baseball, Brent had the fortunate opportunity to play for former professional pitcher Mark Langston, 3-time MLB league strikeout leader, who played 16 years in professional baseball with teams such as the Anaheim Angels, San Diego Padres and Cleveland Indians. Langston considered Brent as “one of the best natural Athletes to come out of Orange County I have ever seen”.
In 2003 Brent was voted a top Southern California player of the year by California Coaches Association. After multiple Tommy John Surgerys from Dr. Lewis Yocum. Brent continued training and rehabbing and was able to make a comeback at UCLA in 2006 where he encountered another challenge during the year: still another “Tommy John” surgery occurred at the end of the 2006 year as well as a nerve Transplant. Brent Graduated from UCLA and continued to study Sports Medicine and the history of Sports Injuries and realized that too many athletes were being physically and mentally destroyed by the old school way of sports training at such a young age.
In his 30 years as a surgeon, Dr. Lewis A. Yocum, the former medical director for the Los Angeles Angels, said he had performed only one Tommy John procedure on a pitcher as young as 16. He later begun to perform 80 to 100 of the operations each year.” Kids are even getting surgery upon entering high school due to over-training and/or poor techniques in training in their specific sport. Brent has now devoted himself to developing & guiding young athletes to compete at their highest level without over-training their bodies and minds. Brent has trained thousands of athletes from high school phenomenon’s to college All-Americans as well as Olympic Gold Medalist’s. Brent defines himself as “A Simply Average Person” (a.s.a.p.) who is able to get people from where they are (point A) to where they would like to be (point “B”, “C” and forward).
CA State Licenses & Certificates (Graduate of UCLA)
  • Sports Performance Specialist (S.P.S.)
  • American Fitness Training of Athletics (A.F.T.A)
  • Certified Tribal Technician Practitioner, (CTT) 201800105 by First Nation Medical Board 
  • Life Performance Consultant & Strategist (L.P.C.S.)
  • Corrective Therapy Specialist (C.T.S.) Level 6k
  • Corrective Exercise Therapy Specialist (C.E.T.S.)
Brent Concolino

Vice President, Baseball Development

BIOGRAPHY

Eric Whitmer

Eric has served on the executive board at South Sunrise Little League for 3 years and has been a coach or manager at the league for the past 4 years. In those 4 years being involved as a coach or manager Eric has coached 6 teams in recreation baseball, tournaments and a travel team. Eric grew up playing travel ice hockey for a nationally ranked team in Southern California. Competing at the State level and winning tournament championships all over the US. After Eric’s ice hockey career ended he raced motocross and grand prix events in Southern California, racing against top pros and national champions.
 
Eric is currently a retail real estate broker working for larger corporations and expanding their real estate holdings and store counts across California. Working for the largest real estate company in the world, Eric has been a part of store strategy for fortune 500 companies and top national retailers in their expansion and roll out of stores in California. He currently lives in the City of Orange with his wife Rebecca, and son Hunter.
Eric Whitmer

Vice President, Information, Marketing & Technology

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