Aaron Weintraub has been
coaching athletes for 18
years, 13 of which he spent
as a college baseball coach.
He is a disciple of the
late, great Harvey Dorfman,
who wrote The Mental
Game of Baseball and
other books.
Weintraub published his own
book, Coaches Guide to
Winning the Mental Game,
in 2009 and added An
Elite Athlete's Manual for
Training Mental Skills
in 2011.
Coach Traub's clients
include individuals and
teams from many high schools
and colleges, including
Baylor University, the
University of Houston, and
Dallas Baptist University.
Around his hometown of
Dallas, he has worked with
teams from Marcus, Red Oak,
Garland, Trinity, Summit,
Flower Mound, Wylie, Forney,
and Grapevine High Schools,
among others. During the
summer, he helped coach the
Coppell Copperheads to a
2007 Texas Collegiate League
championship, and he
currently works for many
teams including the DBAT
Mustangs and Texas Glory
(18U Gold). From 2002-2006,
he served as pitching coach
at Cedar Valley Junior
College in Dallas. He helped
the Suns grow from a 13-38
team to a well-respected,
consistent winner. The team
was nationally ranked in the
top 10 in 2004, 2005, and
2006.
Coach
Traub came to Cedar Valley
from his alma mater of Emory
University in Atlanta, GA.
In 2001 he helped lead the
Emory Eagles to their first
ever #1 national ranking;
that team finished the year
with a 36-9 record, ranked
#9 in NCAA Division III. He
has also coached baseball at
Presbyterian (SC) College,
Brevard (NC) College, and
the University of Virginia.
While there, the
Presbyterian team set a
then-school-record for wins,
Brevard did the same and
achieved national
recognition with a #4
ranking, and the Virginia
Cavaliers were ranked among
the top 25 teams in the
nation. Additionally, he
served as head coach of two
collegiate summer league
teams in wood bat leagues
sponsored by major league
baseball.
Weintraub has coached more
than 50 amateur baseball
players who have gone on to
play professionally.
Coach Traub holds a
bachelor's degree in
Sociology from Emory
University and a master's
degree from the University
of Virginia, where he
studied Sport Psychology and
Motor Learning. He is a
violinist in several local
symphonies, and a member of
the DFW Musician’s Union.
He lives in The Colony, TX,
with his wife, Nicole, their
sons, Christopher and
Gregory, and their twin
daughters Ariel and Carissa.
