Virginia reached its 13th straight NCAA tournament in 2016 while hosting its ninth regional in the last 13 seasons. The Virginia pitching staff ranked 14th in the country in ERA and fourth in strikeouts with a school-record, 687. The start saw the Cavaliers go unbeaten in its first 14 games for the second time in OConnors tenure. 180 He pitched for the Houston Astros (1995-2003), the Philadelphia Phillies (2004-05), the New York Mets (2006-09), the Boston Red Sox (2009) and the Atlanta Braves (2010). / UVA went 1-2 in Omaha, including a one-run loss to eventual National Champion Mississippi State. 1 seeds and a No. The official Baseball Coach List for the Longwood University Lancers. In 2002, he recruited and coached NCBWA National Freshman Player of the Year Darryl Lawhorn. Virginia Beach, Va. Justice / / / In the sixth home game of the year, six pitchers combined for an 11-inning no-hitter against William & Mary, the fourth in the OConnor era. Michael Schwimer earned All-America honors, while Greg Miclat and Pat McAnaney nabbed all-conference laurels. @ant.stephan, 6-0 @deankampschrorr McMullan is a 1990 graduate of IUP. / He helped St. Johns to three Big East championship appearances and a Big East title as well as an NCAA Regional berth in 1997. / / 185 1 recruiting class in the country in 2001, as well as the sixth-ranked recruiting class in 2003 according to Baseball America. In the midst of that run, OConnor etched his name in ACC lure, tallying his 700th career win with a 5-3 victory over Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. After leading the ACC in three offensive categories total bases, slugging percentage and runs, Zack Gelof was a second team All-America choice byCollegiate Baseball Newspaper. For your privacy and protection, when applying to a job online, never give your social security number to a prospective employer, provide credit card or bank account information, or perform any sort of monetary transaction. Edgewater, Md. Since 2009, over one million fans have come out to Disharoon Park, including more than 100,000 in ten of the last 13 years. Lebanon CareerBuilder TIP. 180 Ninety-four of OConnors Virginia players have been selected in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft including 14 in the first round. After a strong regular season, Virginia caught fire in the postseason, winning the ACC Baseball Championship with four wins in as many days. The official Baseball Coach List for the University of Washington Huskies. UVA finished third overall in the ACC and just one game behind division champion North Carolina while playing host to an NCAA Regional. . At ECU, he served as the recruiting coordinator, hitting coach and catching instructor. This success has led to record crowds, excitement and national exposure for Virginia Baseball, highlighted by the Cavaliers national championship in 2015. @NickjParker99 190 While UVAs pitching staff ranked first nationally in ERA, the Cavaliers recorded a .978 fielding percentage at the time, a school record and ranked among the top 20 nationally in batting. During OConnors nine years at Notre Dame, the Irish compiled an overall record of 399-160-1 (.713), won six conference championships and made six trips to the NCAA Tournament. Following the record-breaking season, Mazey was named the East Regional Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and the Chuck Tanner College Coach of the Year by the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh. / / Abingdon, Va. In 2009 Virginia won 49 games and earned the ACC Championship as well as NCAA Irvine Regional and Oxford Super Regional titles en route to the schools first College World Series appearance. . Ernie Clement led UVA with 92 hits (third most in program history) as UVA finished third in the ACC with a .304 team batting average. As a No. @_agreene1 The 2004 team had a 44-15 overall record and 18-6 mark in the ACC. @Avemabe10 / Associate Athletics Director for Strength and Conditioning/Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for Olympic Sports. He enjoyed a pro baseball career as a member of the New York Yankees organization (1990-92) and the Salt Lake City Trappers (1990 and 1992). Senior. / / 3 regional seed, UVA made a dramatic run to Omaha, capped by winning two of three games against Florida before ousting Vanderbilt in three games in the CWS Finals, UVAs second straight trip to the finals. / Email Address Phone Image; Administration; Peggy Davis: . Under OConnors direction, the Team USA pitching staff sported a 2.06 ERA and recorded three shutouts. Freshman, L/L Virginia played host to a regional in 2012 while going 39-19-1 and earning a second-place finish in the ACC Coastal Division. VBCA's mission is to unite, educate, develop and support baseball coaches in Virginia. In 25 years as a college coach, McMullan has had over 100 players signed by professional organizations. Regis Jesuit After posting the leagues 7th-best batting average, Tanner Morris was selected in the 5th round (147th overall) by the Toronto Blue Jays, continuing a streak of 10-straight seasons with a player selected in the first five rounds in each of the last 10 years. @caseysaucke, 6-4 Jersey City, N.J. Elon @treif8 / Brian Patrick O'Connor (born April 20, 1971) is the head baseball coach of the Virginia Cavaliers.Previously serving as an Associate Head Coach at Notre Dame, he was hired on July 8, 2003, to replace the retiring Dennis Womack (who moved on to assistant athletic director of facilities management and operations). / Virginia ranked in the top-15 in the country in batting average (15th .309), ERA (14th 3.99), runs per game (13th 8.6) and strikeouts per nine innings (13th 10.5). / George Wythe / / / The official Baseball Coach List for the Greensboro College Pride Skip To Main . That kind of stability is rarer at the Power Five conference level, where O'Connor is one of just seven coaches to lead an Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Southeastern Conference or Pacific 12 team for that long. Bryn Mawr, Pa. @aidan_teel / @griffinoferrall_, R/R (434) 982-5129 Phone [email protected] E-Mail Bio Matt Kirby is in his 12th season as the volunteer assistant coach on the Virginia baseball coaching staff. Defensively, the Cavaliers also have shined under OConnor. 200 McMullan also was a two-sport NCAA All-American as a catcher in baseball and a linebacker in football at IUP. / Sophomore, L/L / @aidan_teel, 6-4 Dallastown Area Randolph-Macon Athletics 103 E. Patrick St., Ashland, VA. 23005-5505 Main: 804-752-7200 Admissions: 800-888-1762 Athletics: 804-752-7223 / 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. @_nickjparker_, 6-0 Rehoboth Beach, Del. Eight Cavalier starters batted at least .300. Assistant Baseball Coach 804-524-5816 804-524-5816: Basketball (Men) Lonnie Blow, Jr. Head Men's Basketball Coach . The duo became the first set of position players from the same college to be selected in the top 10 of an MLB Draft since 1988. 210 Richlands head coach Tom Rife was captured on video jumping over the team's bench and confronting a male spectator during the final seconds of his team's 54-51 loss to Wise Central. / 4 Georgia Tech, which was UVAs second straight regular-season sweep of the Yellow Jackets. @bradhodgess In addition, 23 Cavaliers have claimed Freshman All-America distinctions. / The APR provides a clear picture of the academic culture in each sport. The Cavaliers also posted a.975 fielding percentage, which ranked seventh nationally. / / [email protected] E-Mail Bio After leading the Virginia baseball program to its first NCAA National Championship in 2015, five-time ACC Coach of the Year and three-time national coach of the year Brian O'Connor has built his program into a college baseball powerhouse and turned Virginia Baseball into a national brand. Doolittle earned an American League All-Star nod in 2014 and 2018. / In 2002, Notre Dame had an overall record of 50-18, won the Big East Championship and advanced to the College World Series. UVA was the only program in the nation to have at least one player chosen in the first round of the MLB Draft from 2014-18, including Pavin Smith and Adam Haseley, who were chosen back-to-back in the top 10 in 2017, marking the first position players from the same college to go in the top 10 since 1988. UVA went 56-12 and won its third straight NCAA regional title before taking the super regional against UC Irvine after a dramatic ninth-inning rally in Game 3. / / @evandob21 A tribute to the hitting philosophy instilled by McMullan and the Virginia baseball coaching staff, the Cavaliers were among the toughest in the country to strikeout in 2018. In 2005, Virginia went 41-20 and played in the ACC Championship game, then earned a bid to the NCAA Corvallis Regional. / Three Cavaliers earned All-America honors: RHP Connor Jones, catcher Matt Thaiss and two-way standout Adam Haseley. OConnor was inducted into the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Associations Hall of Fame in 2017. Men's and Women's Track and Field Women's Volleyball Recreation and Club Sports Mail and Shipping Address 1 Drexel Drive Campus Box 92 New Orleans, LA 70125 Phone 504-520-7329 Fax 504-520-7934 Ticket info: [email protected] Staff Directory Members By Category/Department 2023 Xavier University of Louisiana. @DidawickMark Baseball; Randy Mazey: Head Coach (304) 293-2300 (304) 293-2300: CoachMazey: Steve Sabins . 17 in Baseball Americas top-25 poll. Midlothian, Va. 434 Edgemont Circle Vinton, VA 24179. / 205 The Cavaliers also finished seventh nationally in fielding (.977). Haseley, a Golden Spikes award finalist, was the ACC batting champion and was taken eighth overall by the Philadelphia Phillies. / @matthewabuchanan, 6-4 @kevin_jaxel @treif8, 6-1 Freshman, R/R OConnor brought a wealth of baseball experience to Charlottesville when he arrived. Kyle Crockett was tabbed a Third-Team All-American and finished his career with the second-lowest ERA in UVA history (1.98). He also earned a Gold Glove Award in 2009 and was a Silver Slugger Award winner in 2009 and 2010. UVA then traveled to the NCAA Irvine Regional and impressively topped San Diego State and soon-to-be MLB No. Basketball - Men's - John Paul Jones Arena - PO Box 400823 - Charlottesville VA, 22904-4823 - Phone: 434-982-5400 - Fax: 434-982-5425. / Nine of his teams have ranked among the nations top 40 in fielding percentage. VBCA fulfills a fundamental need in the state of Virginia to provide a collaborative network of experienced coaches at the high school, college and youth level to share their knowledge and passion for coaching the sport of baseball. / Upon retiring from the insurance industry in 2016, Merry began pursuing his dream of full time baseball. / Defensively, the Cavaliers also have shined under McMullan, and UVA owns the highest fielding percentage in the ACC since his arrival in 2004 (.973). / / UVa led the ACC in batting (.314) and ranked second nationally in runs (489) and third in scoring (7.9). 789 wins, including 573 wins since 2009 (fifth most in the nation). / / 195 434-982-5194. [email protected]. Prior to the shutdown the Cavaliers had been ranked as high as No. 5 from Baseball America, the Cavaliers struggled out the gate in 2021, particularly in league play dropping 12 of its first 16 ACC contests. Five Cavaliers earned All-ACC honors, while Jacob Thompson was a consensus first-team All-American and Doolittle earned second-team All-America laurels. The Cavaliers also swept Clemson in three games for the first time since 1972. Sophomore, R/R UVa had a school-record five players earn first-team All-ACC honors, while utility Danny Hultzen and outfielder Jarrett Parker each gleaned All-America laurels. Mahwah, N.J. Papi and McCarthy were joined by Branden Cogswell, Reed Gragnani and Nick Howard on the All-ACC squad. Guyer, Doolittle and Adams were named to the All-ACC team, and the program earned its best-ever national ranking, No. Teel came up big for the Cavaliers in the Super Regional with the first grand slam in UVA postseason history to erase a 2-1, seventh inning deficit against Dallas Baptist. Doolittle and Zimmerman teamed up on the Washington Nationals in 2019 to bring home the franchises first World Series title. To keep the facility among the elite in college baseball, Disharoon Park completed its $18.76 million expansion that included a foul pole to foul pole concourse, a field level club, a new hitting facility, a pitching lab, updated video breakdown facilities and baseball headquarters with coaches offices and meeting rooms. For five consecutive seasons (2014-18), Virginia had at least one player chosen in the first round of the MLB Draft, including Pavin Smith and Adam Haseley, who were chosen back-to-back in the top 10 in 2017, marking the first position players from the same college to go in the top 10 since 1988. In 2005 Zimmerman went on to make one of the quickest jumps ever to the major leagues two months and in 2009 became the first former Cavalier to play in the MLB All-Star Game. Friends' Central Search. Zimmerman took just two months to jump to the major leagues and was selected as a National League All-Star in 2009, becoming the first former Cavalier to appear in the MLB All-Star Game. / / / He has a proven track record of developing pitchers into top-level prospects, including a pair of first-round selections Brad Lidge in 1998 and Aaron Heilman in 2001 who werent drafted in the first 40 rounds coming out of high school (Lidge was a 42nd-round pick, Heilman a 55th-rounder). / . Three Cavaliers were selected in the first round in 2014, the most of any program in the country. McMullan guided Joe Koshansky to the 2004 ACC Player of the Year award, a program first. Howard and Mike Papi joined Kirby as 2014 All-Americans. 2022 ACC Coach of the Year and ABCA/ATEC Atlantic Regional Coach of the Year - enters his sixth season as the head baseball coach at Virginia Tech and his 18th season as an NCAA Division I baseball head coach. Freshman, R/R Message Board Go to the message board and lets start talking baseball. @cullen.mckay, 6-0 The official Roster for the West Virginia University Mountaineers. / Pitching and defense propelled the Cavaliers, as UVA recorded the second-lowest ERA in program history (2.23) and the best fielding percentage in the school annals (.981). James Madison 6-1 / Baseball; Mike McRae: Head Baseball Coach (757) 221-3492 (757) 221-3492: Daniel Sweeney: Pitching Coach . VBCA Events - Virginia Baseball Coaches Association - a charitable association fulfilling a fundamental need in Virginia to provide a collaborative network of experienced coaches at the high school, college, and youth level to unite, educate and support baseball coaches in Virginia. / Graduate Student, L/R In 2010 the Cavaliers won a school-record 51 games, was ranked No. 230 A vision of OConnor, his staff and Virginia administrators took shape at the beginning of the 2018 season with the completion of an $18.76 million expansion of Disharoon Park at Davenport Field. / The official Baseball Coach List for the University of Washington Huskies . A graduate of William and Mary, Kirby came to Virginia in 2011 after spending the previous two seasons as a coach at Georgetown. / / Junior, R/R West Virginia went 36-26 and earned an NCAA at-large bid for the first time in program history. Sophomore, R/R Tony Bennett. UVA teams have thrived on the mound, with the Cavaliers posting the third lowest ERA in the country since 2005 (3.46). Sean Doolittle broke the school record for career RBI (167), while Guyer finished in the top 10 in career hits (221) in just three seasons. / The Cavaliers had two of the top four players to strikeout in the ACC in Brendan Rivoli and Logan Michaels. Six Cavaliers were selected in the 2017 MLB Draft including Pavin Smith and Adam Haseley who went back-to-back, 7th and 8th overall, respectively. / Mark Reynolds also flourished, tying the then-single-season school runs record of 60 in 2004. Lakeland Jr. Sr. 5-10 Woburn, Mass. The Cavaliers ranked 13th in the country in scoring (8.6 runs/game) and 15th in batting average (.309). Email Address; Leadership; Brian Mann: Director of Athletics (757 . Coaches. Moorestown UVa finished the season with a No. / Hosting its ninth Regional in the ACC Coastal division tournament in 2016 while hosting its ninth Regional in while! 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