By Bill Ballew
Interviews with the top coaches and players in college baseball
Joe Santilli of Triple Crown Sports is proposing a new year-end Division I tournament for college baseball. Known as the National Invitational Baseball Championships, the 32-team event would consist of the top schools that failed to make the 64-team NCAA...
Nick Derba was named head coach of the University of Maine Black Bears baseball team by UMaine Director of Athletics Karlton Creech on June 23, 2017. Derba, who assumed the role as interim head coach December 17, 2016, becomes the...
Brad Bohannon, the 2015 American Baseball Coaches Association and Baseball America National Assistant Coach of the Year, was named head baseball coach at the University of Alabama on June 1. Bohannon is the 32nd head coach in Crimson Tide baseball history. A former assistant coach...
John Szefc was named the 25th head baseball coach at Virginia Tech on June 9 and was formally introduced by the Hokies’ Director of Athletics Whit Babcock on June 15. Szefc accepted the position after leading Maryland to three NCAA appearances...
Jayson King was named the new head coach of the Dayton Flyers on June 29. King was introduced by University of Dayton Vice President/Director of Athletics Neil Sullivan. “We are extremely pleased to announce that Jayson King is our new baseball coach,”...
Danny Sheaffer, manager of the Princeton Rays, is in his fifth season guiding the Rookie-league affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays that competes in the Appalachian League. The 55-year-old Sheaffer guided the P-Rays to the Appy League playoffs in each of the...
Outfielder Willie Abreu earned all-conference honors in each of his three seasons with the Miami Hurricanes. As a youngster growing up in the Miami area, he always dreamed of going to the U and playing for one of the nation’s...
The State of College Baseball is a press conference held annually at the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. The press conference was held on Friday afternoon, the day prior to the start of the CWS. This year the participants...
The College World Series press conference number two featured Saturday’s four participants. Oregon State and Cal State Fullerton open the 2017 College World Series at 2 p.m. CT on Saturday at TD Ameritrade Park. Oregon State and Cal State Fullerton have played...
The College World Series is front and center in this episode of the College Baseball Now podcast. In this episode, the four head coaches who will compete in the CWS in the first-round games on Sunday, June 18, are featured....
Dick Cooke is in his 27th season as head coach of the Cinderella Davidson Wildcats. In late May, the Wildcats won their first league championship in the program’s 115-year history by winning the Atlantic 10 Tournament after arriving in St....
Joe Raccuia is in his 10th season as head coach of the Radford Highlanders. A 1995 Radford graduate, Raccuia returned to his roots on July 10, 2007 when he was named the fifth head coach in Highlanders’ baseball history. Throughout his 14 seasons...
Dick Cooke is in his 27th season as head coach of the Davidson Wildcats. In the Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament, the Wildcats emerged from the losers’ bracket and swept a doubleheader from top-seeded Virginia Commonwealth on the final day...
Bob Mumma is in his sixth season as head coach of the UMBC Retrievers baseball program. In late May 2017, the Retrievers won the America East Baseball Tournament with a walk-off walk to defeat Maine in the championship game. After a...
Reggie Christiansen is in his seventh season as head coach of the Sacramento State Hornets. The Hornets overcame a tough spot in the middle of the 2017 season to win the Western Athletic Conference Tournament with four straight victories, including a 5-0...
Raphael Cerrato was named interim head coach of the Rhode Island Rams on July 17, 2014 and following a successful first season with the Rams officially became the program’s permanent head coach on June 23, 2015. With the interim tag lifted and...
Tom Riginos is in his seventh season as head coach of the Winthrop Eagles and has guided the team to three consecutive winning seasons. Hired on August 4, 2010, he is only the third head coach in program history. Prior to joining the...
Mark Calvi is in his sixth season as head coach of the South Alabama Jaguars. He became the fifth head coach in South Alabama baseball history at the conclusion of the 2011 season, after spending the previous slate as associate head...
Rich Hill is in his 19th season as the head coach of the University of San Diego Toreros. The Toreros head into their final regular-season series of the West Coast Conference campaign with a 32-18-1 record, including a 15-9 mark...
Tony Vitello is considered to be one of the top recruiters in the country. He is in his fourth year as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team. As Arkansas’ recruiting coordinator, Vitello has done...
Bill Kinneberg is in his 14th season as head coach of the Utah Utes and his 22nd season overall as a head coach at the Division I level. The Utes began the 2017 season with a 20-21 record, including a...
Brad Bohannon is in his second year as an assistant coach and the recruiting coordinator of the Auburn Tigers. Named the 2015 Baseball America and American Baseball Coaches Association National Assistant Coach of the Year, Bohannon spent 12 seasons at the...
Pete Hughes is in his fourth season as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners. Known throughout the world of college baseball as a proven winner, master motivator, tireless recruiter and charismatic leader, Hughes has guided his team through an injury-riddled...
Missouri State head coach Keith Guttin posted his 1200th career victory on April 18, 2017, when his Bears scratched out a pair of eighth-inning runs to defeat the Missouri Tigers, 5-3. In the process, in this, his 35th season as...
Bill Geivett was an All-America baseball player at UC Santa Barbara and coached college baseball at Loyola Marymount and Long Beach State prior to beginning a three decade career in professional baseball, most recently as director of baseball operations for...
Ryan Folmar is in his fifth season as head coach of the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles and his 14th as a member of the ORU coaching staff. A former catcher at Oklahoma State who helped guide the Cowboys to the...
Ron Torgalski has given his blood, sweat and tears to the University of Buffalo baseball program. The school reinstated the program in time for the 2000 season and Torgalski has been a part of the Bulls throughout those 18 years,...
In five short months, Justin Volman has grown the Collegiate Baseball Scouting Network from five students covering five colleges to more than 50 students providing scouting reports on collegiate players throughout the country and in Canada. A junior at the...
Nick Mingione is in his first season as head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats baseball program. He was named head coach of the Southeastern Conference program last year after spending the past eight seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting...
Rick Vanderhook is in his sixth season as head coach of the Cal State Fullerton Titans. In his first five years at the Titans’ dugout helm, Vanderhook has guided Fullerton to five NCAA Regional appearances, including two Super Regional appearances...
John Anderson has served as head coach of the tradition-rich University of Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball program since the 1982 season. A former pitcher for the Gophers before an injury ended his playing career, Anderson followed in the footsteps of his...
Scott Berry is in his eighth season as head coach of the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles and his 16th campaign as a member of the USM coaching staff. In 2017, the Golden Eagles have gotten off to a 24-6 start,...
Scott Friedholm is in his third season as head coach of the UNC Asheville Bulldogs. The Bulldogs have started the season with 11 wins versus 13 losses and are 3-3 thus far in the Big South Conference. The Bulldogs have...
Dan McDonnell is in his 11th season as head coach of the Louisville Cardinals. During the third week of March 2017, the Cardinals climbed to number one in the national rankings for the first time in program history. The Cardinals...
Jeff Duncan is in his fourth season as head coach of the Kent State Golden Flashes. Despite playing only one home game among their first 18 contests, the Flashes jumped out to a 12-6 start to the 2017 season and...
Darin Hendrickson is in his 10th season as head baseball coach of the St. Louis University Billikens. He is one of the few men that has been a head coach at the junior college, Division III, Division II and Division...
Head Coach Shawn Stiffler is in his fifth season as head coach of the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams. Entering the 2017 campaign, VCU is one of only 14 programs in the country with 37-plus wins in each of the last three seasons. Stiffler was...
Greg Lovelady is in his first season as head baseball coach of the UCF Knights. He arrived at Central Florida after spending three years as the head coach at Wright State, where he led the Raiders to consecutive runner-up finishes at the...
Dave Tollett is a four-time Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year who is in his 15th season as head coach of the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles. He was named the program’s first-ever head coach in August of 2001 and has...
Loren Hibbs is in his 25th season as head coach of the Charlotte 49ers. Under his direction, the 49ers have won seven regular season conference championships, four conference tournament titles, and made five NCAA tournament appearances, including a regional final in...
Jeff Mercer is in his first season as head coach of the Wright State Raiders. He became the first former Raider player to become head coach of the Wright State program last summer when previous head coach Greg Lovelady left...
Lane Burroughs is in his first season as head coach of the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. The Bulldogs are coming off their first Regional appearance in program history but are under the direction of their third different head coach in the...
Matt Senk is in his 27th season as head coach of the Stony Brook Seawolves. A former player at Cortland State in New York, Senk coached at two different Catholic high schools in the New York City area before being...
Patrick Mason is in his fourth season as head baseball coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies. The Hokies struggled last year by posting a 19-36 record and missing out on the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament but swept their opening series...
Brett Harker has made an incredible rise through the coaching ranks in a short period of time. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Harker was named head coach of the Furman Paladins last summer at the age of 31. He...
Andy Cannizaro was named Mississippi State’s 17th head baseball coach on November 5, 2016, after former head coach John Cohen was named director of athletics at MSU. Prior to heading to Starkville, Cannizaro spent the past two seasons as an...
Aaron Fitt is one of the most knowledgable people regarding the world of college baseball. The former college baseball reporter for Baseball America, he is now a national writer and editor at D1Baseball.com. Fitt covers the entire Division I level...
Todd Interdonato is in his 10th season as head coach of the Wofford Terriers and his 12th overall as a member of the Southern Conference school’s coaching staff. A natural motivator with an infectious and enthusiastic personality, Interdonato refused to...
Matt Fincher of the USC Upstate Spartans baseball program is in 20th season guiding the Atlantic Sun Conference team. Born in Atlanta and raised in Athens, Georgia, Fincher played college baseball at Wofford College for two years before spending his...
For nearly two years Teddy Cahill has been a national writer at Baseball America who heads the magazine's college baseball coverage.On the College Baseball Now podcast, Cahill discusses the state of college baseball, including recent revelations that bat tampering has...