Middle School Team Coach's Corner
Henry Payden
Head Middle School Coach
Responsibilities:
Assist in daily decisions and activities associated with the baseball program. Coach Payden is the head coach for the Litchfield Middle School program and also acts as the player off-season development coach for the U14 group.
Career:
Legal Assistant - Coach Payden has made his career with the Federal Government approaching thirty two years this May. Spending four years as a Radioman in the navy, home ported in Yokosuka, Japan aboard a flagship, and also later stationed in Guam. Upon being honorably discharged in 1978, he began working for the Navy Finance Center which became the Defense Finance & Accounting Services at the federal building in Cleveland, as an Administrative Program Assistant until February 2007, where he began serving as a Legal Assistant for the Department of Health & Human Services, the Office of Medicare Hearings & Appeals where he is currently employed.
Coach Payden is also the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Malvern Ohio, serving there since July of 1996.
Education:
Morehouse College - Atlanta, Georgia
Sociology - 1979
Ashland Theological Seminary - Ashland, Ohio
Pastoral Studies - 1982
Moody Bible Institute - Chicago, Illinois
Biblical Studies - 1986
John Adams High School - Cleveland, Ohio
1974
Coaching Experience:
Firestone High School - Akron, Ohio
Litchfield Middle School Baseball Coach - 2009 to Present
Firestone Freshman Baseball Coach - 2007 to 2008
West Akron Baseball Leagues
Head Coach / Manager:
H - League & Tournament Travel Team
G - League, Division & League Champs 2003
F - League, Div. & League Champs 2005 E - Travel League Falcons
Instructional Coach:
E - Travel League Ohio Buckeyes
Assist in daily decisions and activities associated with the baseball program. Coach Payden is the head coach for the Litchfield Middle School program and also acts as the player off-season development coach for the U14 group.
Career:
Legal Assistant - Coach Payden has made his career with the Federal Government approaching thirty two years this May. Spending four years as a Radioman in the navy, home ported in Yokosuka, Japan aboard a flagship, and also later stationed in Guam. Upon being honorably discharged in 1978, he began working for the Navy Finance Center which became the Defense Finance & Accounting Services at the federal building in Cleveland, as an Administrative Program Assistant until February 2007, where he began serving as a Legal Assistant for the Department of Health & Human Services, the Office of Medicare Hearings & Appeals where he is currently employed.
Coach Payden is also the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Malvern Ohio, serving there since July of 1996.
Education:
Morehouse College - Atlanta, Georgia
Sociology - 1979
Ashland Theological Seminary - Ashland, Ohio
Pastoral Studies - 1982
Moody Bible Institute - Chicago, Illinois
Biblical Studies - 1986
John Adams High School - Cleveland, Ohio
1974
Coaching Experience:
Firestone High School - Akron, Ohio
Litchfield Middle School Baseball Coach - 2009 to Present
Firestone Freshman Baseball Coach - 2007 to 2008
West Akron Baseball Leagues
Head Coach / Manager:
H - League & Tournament Travel Team
G - League, Division & League Champs 2003
F - League, Div. & League Champs 2005 E - Travel League Falcons
Instructional Coach:
E - Travel League Ohio Buckeyes