Bishop Kearney grad Jeff Albert has risen from a Section 5 Champion baseball player to a hitting coach with the World Series Champion Houston Astros.

After high school, Albert went to Johns Hopkins but didn't fit in there. He returned to Rochester and ran into RIT coach Rob Grow and decided to join the Tigers for a year.

He then transferred to Butler University and played briefly in the Independent League before heading to grad school at Louisiana Tech, where he decided to become a hitting coach.

Just days after graduating, he headed to Spring Training to serve as the St. Louis Cardinals' Class A hitting coach. After five years there, he moved over to the Astros organization, where he was the Minor League hitting coordinator for the Astros during their World Series run this past season.

This season, he'll be an assistant hitting coach with the Astros and be in the dugout for them this season. Albert still occasionally returns to Rochester and spent some time helping out former Tigers star Will Gorman, who is heading into his second season in the Diamondbacks organization.