Delmarva Aces expanding its facility with construction project
BISHOPVILLE, Md. – The Delmarva Aces is a youth baseball club, and they just began construction on a new project that will massively help improve the facility.
The organization has worked the last 10 years, and founder David Whigham started the group, and did so to pass along the love of baseball to the youth.
“I started this program in 2014, and I had a pretty traumatic injury myself in 2009. I was pitching and was hit in the head with a line drive, nearly dying on the field.”
Whigham used this experience to make an impact on athletes who love baseball, which is how the Delmarva Aces became a thing.
“I created this program 5 years later, with the vision of providing kids with the opportunity that I had taken from me.”
The group has now become a juggernaut on Delmarva, in hopes of training young talents and getting them an opportunity to play at the next level.
The next part of the project will feature 4 smaller batting cages, a larger tech cage, and a multi-purpose training area. That part of the complex will have basketball hoops and rubber flooring for other sporting activities.
Whigham tells us about Phase 2 of the construction.
“This is phase 2 what’s going on outside right now. It’s 8,500 square feet building, 80 x 106. We are going to move all of our batting cages, and this is going to be an open turf area,” said Whigham. “Huge hub of youth baseball, and the great thing about the next building is we will be able to provide our own evaluations, which means more opportunity for space, access, and opportunity for kids to just be able to get better.”
One of those talents is Dalton Barnes, a Randolph Macon commit. He was recruited by the school, and will be the pitcher. He tells WMDT how Whigham has helped him.
“That’s where I got seen the most, and that’s when I got about 11 offers, and Dave helped me connect with all of them.”
He is one of the names on the 300 plaques on the wall, that’s dedicated to talents that have committed to play at the next level. Another is Hayden Snelsire, Tampa Bay Rays draft pick, he says the Aces have been pivotal for growth.
“It’s huge, I think baseball has kind of blossomed to a really big part of the community,” said Snelsire.
For Whigham, the mission is simple: “What we do, is we train the players and give them the opportunity to be seen, and ultimately connect the dots.”
