Arlington  senators  coaching  staff

Graeme  FIneman
​Director of Baseball Operations

Graeme Fineman is the Varsity Head Pitching Coach at Yorktown High School. He joined the Senators program with nearly eight years of coaching experience as a head coach and assistant with Arlington Senior Babe Ruth. Coaching across multiple age groups, Fineman has won a State championship and multiple district titles as an All-Star coach for the ASBR program, while also working with players one-on-one in private lessons.

A four-year varsity letterman as a pitcher, Graeme graduated from Yorktown High School. He was an all-conference selection for his first three seasons until missing his senior year due to injury. Graeme graduated from Linfield University in McMinnville, Oregon; playing baseball for one season before a shoulder injury cut his career short. Graeme also worked in a variety of roles across the Wildcats athletics department for the last three years; primarily with the baseball, soccer, football and basketball programs.  

john foti
​general manager

John Foti currently serves as the General Manger for the Arlington Senators program and sits on the Arlington Senior Babe Ruth board of directors. John has coached multiple  teams over the years, including recreation and travel teams for the younger league, Arlington Cal Ripken Babe Ruth, as well as teams with Arlington Senior Babe Ruth and the Senators. He is the resident/roaming pitching coach for the Senators.

John has been an Arlington resident for over 20 years and has two sons who have participated in Arlington Baseball throughout that time. As a college student, John pitched for Ohio Wesleyan University. His oldest son currently is the third baseman for Muhlenberg College.

​Chris Chiuchiolo

Chris Chiuchiolo, better known as Coach Chiuch, is an Assistant Coach on the Yorktown JV team and has been a Coach in the Senators system as well as with the Arlington Senior Babe Ruth Summer All-Stars. He led the ASBR 13-year-old All-Stars to the Babe Ruth World series this past summer.

​Jennifer  Hammond

Jennifer Hammond currently serves Assistant Varsity Coach/Catching Coach for the Thomas Jefferson H.S. Colonials after five seasons as JV and Varsity coach with Falls Church High School. She also coaches with the staff of the Alexandria Aces Collegiate Cal Ripken League. Coach Hammond has also assisted Coach Dudley with managing several men’s recreational teams. 

Shane Halley

The Senators welcome Shane Halley to the program. Coach Halley is the pitching coach at Marymount University where he has been coaching for three years. He brings Major League pitching and D1 college baseball experience. Halley played on the UVA Cavalier Baseball team 2008-12 and was part of two ACC Championship teams and made two College World Series appearances. In 2012, he was selected in the 20th round of the MLB Draft by the Kansas City Royals where he spent three years as a pitcher. After his time with the MLB, Halley spent two years in Nanjing, China as a pitching coach. He helped develop the first Chinese pitchers who signed professional contracts with an MLB organization.

Halley also spent time as a pitching coach with the Alexandria Aces in the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League.

John  Harris

John Harris is an Army veteran, Coach Harris brings both discipline and tremendous positive energy to his coaching.  An outfielder who still plays competitive baseball, John is an invaluable asset in getting Senators outfielders ready to compete in High School.  

​STEVEN  head

​We are pleased to welcome Coach Head back to the Senators family as our Director of Strength & Fitness. Steven recently served as a trainer and 12u Head Baseball Coach at The St. James. He has worked as a personal trainer and strength coach in Northern Virginia for 30 years.   He has served as a strength coach for GWU Men’s Tennis,  and in 2020 completed a baseball strength & fitness internship at Cressy Sports Performance in Florida, working with current Major League players such as Kyle McGowan (Nationals) Gabe Klobosits (Nationals), Mike Brosseau (Rays) and Triston McKenzie (Indians/Guardians). Coach Head is also a certified hitting instructor from On Base Academy and a Lee-Taft certified speed & agility coach. Steve developed the Senators' program-wide strength & fitness regime.

Chris Koomey

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Thor Koomey

Thor Koomey was born into a baseball family. He played ABR and ASBR and their travel programs and also with the Yorktown High School Patriots. For the past two years, Thor played Club Baseball at The College of William and Mary. He was an assistant coach for the ASBR 13-year-old All Stars that advanced to the World Series this past summer.

​DAN  POTOTSKY

Dan Pototsky​ is the former varsity coach at Washington-Lee and Thomas Jefferson High School, a retired Arlington Public School educator and regarded as one of the best baseball instructors in the Northern Virginia area. He was all-SEC at the University of Kentucky, a championship varsity head coach at WL and the longest tenure Senators coach. He also recently took an Arlington Senior Babe Ruth All-Star team all the way to the SBR World Series. Coach Pototsky is currently an assistant varsity coach for Justice High School in Falls Church. 

​Chad Singleton

The Senators welcome Chad Singleton to the program. Coach Singleton will assist Coach Halley with the Senators JV team. He is a Marymount University junior catcher and coach for the Saints.