Coaches
Mike Boswell
Varsity Head Coach
Mike Boswell joined the Bolles baseball staff in 2002 as an assistant coach and played a key role in the Bulldogs' state championship that season. He became head coach in 2004, leading the team to district titles that season and in 2005 and to the regional finals in 2005. In 2006, the Bulldogs were district runner-up and regional quarterfinalists. In 2007, Boswell guided the Bulldogs to the program’s 16th State Final Four appearance, as well as district and regional titles. In addition to his coaching duties, Boswell serves as director of the boys' resident program at Bolles.
Prior to Bolles, Boswell served as head coach of Englewood High School. He earned Florida Athletic Coaches Association Coach of the Year honors in 1999 after guiding the Rams to the Class 3A state championship.
Boswell is a graduate of the University of North Florida and was an infielder in the Chicago Cubs organization. His wife, Laura, is a science instructor and advisor on the Middle School Bartram Campus. They have three children at Bolles: Bo '11, Cody '14, and Lauren '19.
Matt Denmark
Varsity Pitching Coach
Matt Denmark joined the Bolles staff in 1998, currently serving as the pitching instructor for the baseball squad. Denmark also serves as the Middle School Bartram Campus athletic director.
Prior to Bolles, Denmark was a head coach at Episcopal High School and Providence School in Jacksonville. A graduate of the University of North Florida, he was a letterman on the Ospreys' baseball squad. Denmark's wife, Allison, serves as director of internal testing, a tenth grade advisor, and assistant volleyball coach on the Upper School San Jose Campus. They have two children at Bolles: Caleb '10 and Abby '12.
Storm Davis
Varsity Assistant Coach
Storm Davis returned to coaching football and baseball at Bolles in the 2006-07 school year after serving as head baseball coach from 1997-2001, an assistant baseball coach from 1995-96, and an assistant football coach. He has also served as head baseball coach and an assistant football coach at Trinity Christian and most recently served as an assistant football and baseball coach at Bartram Trail High School.
Davis' baseball resume includes 13 years in the major leagues as a pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles (1982-86 and 1992), San Diego Padres (1987), Oakland Athletics (1987-89 and 1993), Kansas City Royals (1990-91), and Detroit Tigers (1993-94).
He was a member of two World Series Championship teams, in 1983 with the Orioles and 1989 with the Athletics. He also played in the 1988 World Series as a member of the Athletics.
A Jacksonville native, Davis is a graduate of University Christian School. He and his wife, Angie, have five children: daughters Erin and Stephanie and sons Zach, Caleb, and Justin.
Chris Skinner ’80
Varsity Assistant Coach
Chris Skinner is a 1980 graduate of Bolles, where he was a member of two state runner-up baseball squads. Skinner returned to assist the baseball squad in 2007 after serving as an assistant coach from 1999-2005.
Skinner graduated from Vanderbilt University, playing on the Commodores' baseball squad. He has three children at Bolles: Peyton '08, Ellie '11, and Virginia '13.
Taylor Cobb ’01
Varsity Assistant Coach
Taylor Cobb, a 2001 graduate of Bolles, returned to coach at his alma mater in 2007. Cobb serves as an assistant pitching coach with the varsity squad. He also serves on the Bolles faculty as a permanent substitute teacher and a member of the boys' resident staff.
During his Bolles career, Cobb was named the 2001 Times-Union Player-of-the-Year and helped the Bulldogs to two district titles. He was also a member of the varsity basketball squad at Bolles.
Cobb graduated from the University of Central Florida, where he played on the Knights' baseball squad. In 2005, he was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays organization in the Major League Baseball draft.
Anthony Candolino
Varsity Assistant CoachRicky Barnes
Junior Varsity Head Coach
Ricky Barnes joined the Bolles upper school baseball staff in 2008 as the junior varsity head coach after being a part of the middle school coaching staff for the previous four years. Barnes has coached both baseball and football at the middle school. He is scheduled to complete his education degree requirements this spring at the University of North Florida. His brother Matt is a junior on the Bolles varsity baseball team.
Doug Skinner
Junior Varsity Assistant Coach
Doug Skinner joined the Bolles baseball coaching staff in 2007, assisting with the junior varsity. Skinner's previous coaching experience includes seven years at Lakeside Junior High School as an assistant, and numerous local travel teams. He was a member of the coaching staff of two state championship travel teams.
Skinner attended high school in St. Louis, Missouri, playing two years as a catcher on his school's varsity squad. He also played four years on a local American Legion team.
Skinner and his wife, Roxanne, have two sons: Matt, a member of the Bolles class of 2008, and Chris.