About Us
Our vast array of resources are designed to help you thrive in college and/or professional baseball.
Help swing the odds in your favor by aligning withThe Ambassadors Group
1.The Ambassadors Group Leadership and experience.
The Founder of The Ambassadors Group is Mark Helsel. He has been successfully helping young athletes move on to college and professional baseball since 2006. Over that period of time over 1,000 players have realized their dream of playing at the next level with the assistance of Mark. If you’re looking for experience, credibility and connections to help you along your journey, you have found it.
In 2006 Mark formed a travel baseball team with a group of talented 13U players. Three short years later (21) players from his first team earned D1 scholarships, including his son, Christian, who earned a scholarship to Ole Miss.
From that early success Mark began to form more teams, all based on the same theme of helping players on an individual level. Mark’s travel baseball programs evolved over the years. By 2014 Mark’s program was widely recognized as one of the most respected college placement programs in the country.
From 2006-2022 Mark personally helped 1,000+ players achieve their dream of playing college and/or professional baseball.
Mark’s son, Zack, also earned a D1 scholarship at UCF.
With a proven formula for success as documented by so many players moving on to the next level it was a very logical decision for Mark to form his own private consulting agency for young players and their parents. In Mark’s own words he describes the vision behind the service. “When I was the director of a large national travel program I was only able to help our players. I saw many, many talented players on other teams getting no help whatsoever from their coaches or travel programs. There were just playing baseball and hoping for something good to happen. Unfortunately, that’s an extremely low percentage way to try to get to the next level. Simply put, I wanted to help more kids.
Today, The Ambassadors Group is a successful faith based Full Service Amateur Sports Agency servicing talented players and their families in all 50 states.
Our core services center around mentoring and guiding young baseball players, and their parents, through the journey (wilderness) of their baseball career, specializing in development and the recruiting process.
We call it Personalized Career Management (PCM). In many ways we are “life coaches” to our clients. This is a vast and complex process that involves many aspects of their journey. We have identified FIVE key areas to help our clients; physical, mental, spiritual, educational and social. Our coaching is unique and individualized. No two players, or parents are the same.
Therefore, our offer is a highly personalized experience. Everything we do is based on building a close relationship with our clients. We are highly involved in their lives and strive to help them in many areas of their development.
Nobody does more to help their players succeed than The Ambassadors Group
- Professional and Comprehensive Athletic Evaluation (in person)
- Individual Strategy Session (one hour)
- Individualized Development Plan (written by our sports performance coaches)
- Promotional Videos
- Minimum of 10 Schools contacted by The Ambassadors Group
- Introduced to Strategic Developmental Partners
- Travel team or college summer league placement (if necessary)
- Schedules promoted to targeted schools
- College coaches invited to watch you play
- Receive feedback from college coaches
- Access to all training material.
- Revolutionary and proprietary College Placement Projector (CPP).
- Individual Development Plan (written form)
- Goal Setting Training and implementation
- Personal consulting, advice and recommendations on college recruiting
- Personal promotion to targeted college coaches (based on projections and preferences)
- Personal exposure to targeted college coaches (based on projections and preferences)
- Personal assistance with summer team placement (if needed or desired)
- Personal assistance and training with communication skills
- Personal consulting, advice and recommendations on college placement
- Personal consulting, advice and recommendations on college scholarship offers
- *Recommendations and introductions to Sports Performance/strength coach
- *Recommendations and introductions to Position Specific instructional coach
- *Recommendations and introductions to Professional Sports Nutritionist
- Recommendations and introductions to Natural Supplements
- *Recommendations and introductions to Professional Mental Training coach
- *Recommendations and introductions to Professional GRIT coach
- Recommendations and introductions to Spiritual Mentor (optional)
- Recommendations and introductions to Community Outreach Coach
- Consulting, advice and recommendations on professional sports career
- Consulting, advice and recommendations on career in sports (after college)
- NIL Consulting (when necessary)
- Recommendations and introductions to MLB Scouts (when necessary)
- Consulting, advice and recommendations for parents and guardians
- Recommendations and introductions to the following HS national events:
- Area Code Games
- East Coast Pro
- PG Festival (12U, 13U, 14U)
- PBR State Games
- PG National National
- Future Stars National Events
- USA Baseball National Team
- PG World Championships (Jupiter)
