Top Level Baseball Academy offers Travel Ball Teams (Ages 8U-18U), Small Group & Private Training.

Current Top Level Schedule

• Player Evaluations for Top Level 2025-26 Teams (Ages 8/9U - 18U): August Open Scrimmage Games and Practices and/or Sunday August 31 Tryouts - New Player Registration/Info

• August Open Group Scrimmage Games, Field Practices and Batting Cages (Open to Top Level and Non-Top Level Players - Click Here)

• Tues/Thurs. Summer Morning Small Group Batting Lessons with Video Analysis with Coach Beckerman

• Top Level Signing Day, Sunday Aug. 31 - All Players Invited and Accepted a Roster meet with their teammates, coaches and other families to discuss the upcoming season and practice days, tournaments

• Top Level Season Starts, Week of September 8 - Practice Schedules set after Sun Aug. 31 team meetings

History of Top Level (TL):

• TL has been developing players for high school and beyond since 2013 (first as LA Xtreme 2013-2020 and now Top Level 2021-Present). TL coaches have coached some of the top Baseball Players in the area

  • Jake McCaffrey - NYU

  • Izzy Parsky - Princeton

  • Evan Alexander - Univ of Penn

  • Luca Marucci, Loyola MVP, All Mission League, Senior Current Uncommitted

  • James Dell’Amico - Pepperdine

  • Hamilton Friedberg - Air Force

  • Jaden Jackson - UCLA

  • Win Gurney - Oregon State

  • Nathaniel “Nacho” Eisfelder - University of Tennessee

  • Tommy Goodin - Vanderbilt

  • Myles Smith - UC Irvine / Cincinnati Reds 7th Round Draft Pick

  • Marc Emmerman - San Diego State

  • Hunter Friedberg - University of San Diego

  • Allen Blackwell - Columbia University

  • Tomas Lopez - Columbia University

  • Plus many many more at Stanford, USC, UCLA, etc, etc

Top Level Dedication - Top Level is a full youth to high school academy, providing development and teams to players 8/9U to High School and above. TL is focused on ways to helping players improve their skills for higher levels of play by providing a competitive environment where players can learn alongside others who share the same goals and focus. Top Level works hard to find high-quality professional coaches who don’t have bias’s in team and line-up selection because they have a son, assistant coaches sons and board members on their team. Top Level aims to shift the mindset that baseball isn’t a game of failure, but instead its a game of lessons, that requires hard work, grind and personal accountability to achieve success. Before Top Level, there were no local competitive programs on the Westside. We have been fortunate enough that by providing a competitive program to the Westside, has allowed Top Level to expand from 4 teams our first year in 2021 to 19 teams this year, giving over 250 players a great opportunity to elevate their game and be prepared for High School and above.

Top Level Founders: Eric Beckerman and Zach Smith founded Top Level in 2020.

• Coach Eric Beckerman was a 2X All-League player at Palisades High School and took his baseball skills to the University of Arizona and transferring and playing at the University of Wisconsin. In 2010, Eric Beckerman founded and ran LA Xtreme for 8 years prior creating one of the top travel ball programs not only in Southern California but in the entire country, producing some of the top teams in the country. It would be very difficult to find a travel ball coach that has been more successful than Coach Beckerman as he has brought 6 teams to Cooperstown and has an astonishing 3 Cooperstown Championships, along with a Championship Runner-Up and finished 9th the other two times. Coach Beckerman teams have won the Florida World Series, Omaha Slumpbusters World Series, and numerous Super NIT, Perfect Game, USA and other National Invitational Tournaments. Coach Beckerman took his travel ball coaching to High School in 2019 at Crossroads, where he has led the school back to a respectable and competitive program. Despite Crossroads not having made playoffs in 10 years and not winning a playoff game or league in 15 years, Coach Beckerman has been able to led Crossroads to 3 playoff appearances in his 5 years (the first time in 25 years at Crossroads), while also winning league and in playoffs. Coach Beckerman runs the 14 and Under teams at Top Level.

• Coach Zach Smith is one of, if not the premier pitching coach in the Southern California area working with top Division 1 High School, College and Pro pitchers. Coach Zach played his collegiate ball at the University of Hawaii Pacific. Coach Zach then learned pitching bio-mechanics by working at the Ranch in Texas, before settling in Southern California. Coach Zach coaches at LA Xtreme and was the Pitching Coach at Crossroads High School, before his popularity as a pitching coach spread quickly to where he now spends his full time as a High Level Pitching Instructor while also running the Top Level High School Program, and Summer Velo Lab.