Stephen R.Google review
Coach Jacob fosters an individual, tailored approach to teaching youth baseball. He doesnt build just a baseball player rather he helps build an athlete. Facility is clean and comfortable. Definitely a gem.
How did this place happen?
Holy City Athletics opened in 2025 in West Ashley. Jacob Fisher built it with his dad over three months of laying turf and hanging cages, and the plan for it started on a price sheet he wrote at 17.
Jacob's story
I played four years of high school ball and two and a half in college. My playing career ended with a throwing problem that took a full mental reset to understand, and working my way out of it taught me more about coaching than playing ever did.
Back in Charleston, I coached at a gym in Mount Pleasant, the same one I trained at when I was 14. Then I took a job with the rec department running baseball, softball, soccer, and football leagues, and I spent a lot of hours watching volunteer coaches do their best with the information they had. One day I walked up to a dad at a field and offered his son a few pointers. That turned into one lesson, then ten kids, then thirty, then an email list of 75 families picking slots off my monthly schedule. Saturdays I was at the field from eight in the morning until dark.
When renting field time stopped making sense, it was time to go. I found this building, put in my two weeks the day I signed the lease, and spent three months inside it with my dad: laying turf, hanging cages, building the front desk. We opened in 2025.
Why we called it Athletics
Because we train the athlete first. The movement work we do before anyone touches a bat carries over to basketball, soccer, football, whatever your kid plays next. I named it for where it is going.
Your kid is an athlete first and a ballplayer second
The first 25 minutes are movement, speed and strength. Your kid will be tired before the baseball starts, and that is on purpose.
- 1Movement. Balance, rhythm, and body control, in positions that make a kid work for it.
- 2Speed and agility. Ladder work, hurdles, then jumping and landing under control.
- 3The skill work. Hitting, pitching, or catching, depending on the lesson.
- 4Strength. The last five or ten minutes, all body weight. Push-up form and squat form, so the small muscles are ready for heavier lifting later.
Rated 5.0 from 21 Google reviews
Danielle M.Google review
His knowledge of pitching, positive approach, and genuine commitment to the long-term health and arm care of young pitchers really sets him apart.
Sherry T.Google review
He had challenged my high school daughter like no one before and all 3 of my kids who play ball are making improvements bc of him. Highly recommend this facility!!
