
Cox High School Baseball

Coach Ittner begins his sixth year at the helm of the Cox baseball program. He is a 2008 graduate of Cox High School, where he was a 3-year varsity letterman for the baseball team. Coach Ittner went on the play for two years at College of the Albemarle from 2010-2011 and then at Virginia Wesleyan College for his remaining two years 2011-2013. In the fall of 2014, Coach Ittner was hired as the junior varsity head baseball coach at Cox High School. After a 9-1 campaign with the Cox JV baseball team in the spring of 2014, he was hired by Salem High School in Virginia Beach to be their varsity head baseball coach and spent the last three seasons there from 2015-2017. Coach Ittner is currently a special education teacher with Virginia Beach City Public Schools. Coach Ittner may be reached at mittner2@gmail.com
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Coach Ittner begins his sixth year at the helm of the Cox baseball program. He is a 2008 graduate of Cox High School, where he was a 3-year varsity letterman for the baseball team. Coach Ittner went on the play for two years at College of the Albemarle from 2010-2011 and then at Virginia Wesleyan College for his remaining two years 2011-2013. In the fall of 2014, Coach Ittner was hired as the junior varsity head baseball coach at Cox High School. After a 9-1 campaign with the Cox JV baseball team in the spring of 2014, he was hired by Salem High School in Virginia Beach to be their varsity head baseball coach and spent the last three seasons there from 2015-2017. Coach Ittner is currently a special education teacher with Virginia Beach City Public Schools. Coach Ittner may be reached at mittner2@gmail.com

TJ Bartakke, returns for his 10th season with the Falcons. He is a native of Northern VA, where he graduated from Oakton HS in 2009. He was a catcher/middle infielder and lettered three years at Oakton under coaches Scott Rowland and Justin Janis. TJ was part of a team that made the State Final in 2006 and won the Region Championship in 2007. He went on to a brief stint at Christopher Newport University, graduating from CNU in 2014. TJ began coaching at Cox in 2014 and has coached at the high school level during his whole adult life. In addition to his time at Cox where he helped guide the Falcons to the 2017 Regional Championship and state title game, he spent 2 years on the Woodside High School coaching staff and 2 years as the Denbigh High School head JV coach.
TJ works as a Private Wealth Advisor for Integrated Financial Partners, where he and his team help simplify the lives of busy people, by giving them financial peace of mind. TJs favorite part of the Cox Baseball program is the brotherhood created among the players, coaching staff, alumni and the community. TJ maintains his enthusiasm to be part of the Cox Baseball staff and expects the program to continue to build upon their successes.




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