Instructors: Ohio

Jeremy Best
Jeremy has served in the education and coaching profession for 14 years.   His undergraduate work was completed in 1996 at Bluffton College with a degree in Elementary Education/Special Education.  In 2002 he earned his Masters Degree in Educational Administration from Bowling Green State University.   He has taught at various levels ranging from 5th grade to seniors in high school.   Best taught 9 of his 14 years in special education classroom and currently teaches at the 5th grade level.
Jeremy has coached various sports including track (2yrs), football (2yrs), baseball (2yrs), and golf (8yrs) over the span of his fourteen years.  He has been a head basketball coach for 11 years, 7 of those years at Convoy Crestview High School.  His 2002-03 team played in the OHSAA Division IV State Championship Game.  He is a member of the Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association and District 8 Coaches Association.  Jeremy is married to Jennifer and they have two children, Ethan (5) and Lillie (1).  In his spare time he enjoys his family, golf, and exercise.

Lee Day
Lee Day has been instructing summer leadership courses for Educational Resources since 2003.  With the 2008-09 school year, he will have completed 30 years in education.  Lee graduated from Ohio Northern University with a Mathematics degree in education in 1979 and then earned his Masters in counseling from Xavier University in 1983.  After teaching high school math for 4 years he began working as a part-time guidance counselor in conjunction with his classroom teaching.  Then in 1990 he became head of the guidance department at Lebanon High School and continues to serve in that capacity.  Lee has coached sophomore basketball (1 year), varsity football (9 years of which 3 as head coach), reserve golf for 14 years and reserve baseball 2 years.  This year he just completed his 6th year as the head golf coach and 28th year as the head baseball coach.  He serves on the state baseball coaches association board as a representative for the southwest district.  Lee also has officiated high school and college basketball for 29 years.  He has been fortunate to have worked three OHSAA state basketball tournaments while officiating the Division I Finals in 2005.  He is a member of the Miami Valley Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame (2000) and a member of the Middletown Basketball Officials Association Hall of Fame (2006).
In his spare time, Day enjoys playing golf.  He and his wife Jodi of 28 years have two sons, Trevor and Clint.  Both boys played golf and baseball at Lebanon High School and earned many academic and athletic awards.  Trevor is working on his business degree from The Ohio State University and Clint is working on a finance degree from Miami University.

Tom Held
Tom Held is the current Head Baseball Coach (1999 – present) at the Defiance High School in Northwest Ohio.  In 1984, he earned his teaching degree in Comprehensive Business Education from Defiance College.  In 1995, he earned his Masters of Education in Administration from the University of Toledo.  He coached basketball for 13 years at Elmwood and Bryan High School.  With the upcoming 2009 season, Tom has coached baseball for 22 years and 21 as a head coach at Elmwood, Bryan and Defiance.  He was the Ohio Coach of the Year in 1999 & 2008.  Tom is also a member of the Acme Baseball Board of Directors.  He has had the fortune to have over 60 former players go on to play college baseball and five have played professionally. Currently two former Bulldogs are in the Major leagues (Chad Billingsley – LA Dodgers, Jon Niese – NY Mets) Tom resides in Defiance with his wife, Deanne, and has three children, Chayse, 25, Cassidy, 13, and Cal, 8.