11U Baseball Tryouts

Rod Gorham was born and raised in Washington, NC, and graduated in the top 10 of his class from Washington High School. He received several scholarship offers for baseball and basketball before accepting a baseball scholarship from Elon College (now Elon University), where he was a starting pitcher all four years.

Rod Gorham has had a notable presence in the baseball community for over 20 years. Throughout this tenure, he has coached at both the amateur and collegiate level. His coaching career began almost immediately after graduating college as the head baseball and basketball coach at PS Jones Middle School in Washington, NC. From there he joined the baseball and football coaching staff at his Alma Mater, Washington High School. Upon his return to the triad area, Rod served as Pitching Coach at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University for three years, while also working his way up to became the Head Pitching and Hitting Instructor at The Greensboro Batting Center. After 14 years at GBC, Rod branched out to open his own baseball facility in Greensboro, NC (4G3 Training Facility), and most recently served as Head Baseball Coach at Dudley High School for three years, helping 7 Panthers to receive All-Conference Honors in his final year.

Rod has continued to coach competitive travel and showcase baseball teams and to provide quality instruction (first at GBC and now at 4G3 Training Facility) to amateur, collegiate, and professional baseball players as well as amateur and collegiate softball players.