/ @juanxdelacruzz, R/R Guyer, Doolittle and Adams were named to the All-ACC team, and the program earned its best-ever national ranking, No. / Outfielder Joe McCarthy posted the highest batting average for a UVa freshman in 29 years and was tabbed the ACC Freshman of the Year as well as a Freshman All-American. @_nickjparker_, 6-0 195 / McMullan also was a two-sport NCAA All-American as a catcher in baseball and a linebacker in football at IUP. Sophomore, R/R Head Baseball Coach cfrancis@vwu.edu: 757.455.3348 757.455.3348: Jeff Butler: Assistant Baseball Coach / Recruiting Coordinator jmbutler@vwu.edu: 757.455.3379 757.455.3379: Freddie Torres: Assistant Baseball Coach ftorres@vwu.edu: Peter Slechta: Assistant Baseball Coach pslechta@vwu.edu: Damien Kelly / / @Henrygodbout Both went on to garner All-ACC honors with Kent becoming the first UVA freshman since 2009 to garner First Team All-ACC honors to go along with freshman All-America accolades from two different publications. Virginia averaged 3,148 fans per game, shattering the previous record by nearly 1,400 fans per game. @ConnellyEarly / / / / @Avemabe10 @the_ethana Virginia Baseball Coaches Association. @justin.rubin, 5-10 / Sophomore, R/R 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. Great Falls, Va. Main Navigation Menu. / Vienna, Va. / Tom Hagan was a first team All-ACC selection after hitting .357, while Brandon Marsh was a second team All-ACC selection as eight of Virginias position starters hit above .300. / Nick Howard set an ACC record with 20 saves and then was selected in the first round of the MLB Draft, one of eight Cavaliers to be drafted in 2014. Sophomore, R/R @Matt2021lefty West Virginia went 36-26 and earned an NCAA at-large bid for the first time in program history. The Cavaliers were once against successful in the MLB Draft with six selections and an ACC-high, five in the first 10 rounds. Second baseman Keith Werman was named to the All-ACC team, while Derek Fisher was a unanimous selection as a Freshman All-American. Coaches, please email us wvbaseballcoachesassociation@gmail.com with your team's website address so we can post it under our team pages link NEW! Lafayette / Mark Reynolds (Arizona), Joe Koshansky (Colorado), Brandon Guyer (Tampa Bay), Michael Schwimer (Toronto), Mike Ballard (Baltimore), Sean Doolittle (Oakland), David Adams (New York Yankees), Phil Gosselin (Atlanta), Kyle Crockett (Cleveland), Chris Taylor (Seattle), Jarrett Parker (San Francisco), Tyler Wilson (Baltimore), John Hicks (Seattle), Derek Fisher (Houston), Danny Hultzen (Chicago Cubs), Branden Kline (Baltimore), Josh Sborz (Los Angeles Dodgers), Matt Thaiss (Los Angeles Angels), Adam Haseley (Philadelphia), Joe McCarthy (San Francisco) Brandon Waddell (Pirates), Pavin Smith (Diamondbacks), Tommy Doyle (Rockies), Alec Bettinger (Brewers), Daniel Lynch (Royals), Ernie Clement (Indians), Jake McCarthy (Diamondbacks) and Bennett Sousa (Chicago White Sox) also have made it to baseballs highest level after playing under OConnor while at UVA. / The Cavaliers played host to an NCAA Regional and bowed out in the championship to eventual national champion Oregon State. UVA led the league and was third in the nation in ERA (2.81), led by Thompson with a league-best 1.50 mark. / Among the 310 colleges with a Division I baseball program, Virginia is one of only 32 to have had the same head coach since 2004. / / UVA posted a 53-16 record its fourth 50-win season in a five-year span and won the Charlottesville Regional and Super Regional en route to its third trip to Omaha in the last six seasons. 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. During OConnors tenure, Virginia players have garnered 34 All-America honors, including Hultzen, who was a three-time First-Team All-American, and Doolittle, Papi, Matt Thaiss and Haseley, each of whom was a two-time All-American. 1 recruiting class in the country in 2001, as well as the sixth-ranked recruiting class in 2003 according to Baseball America. The USA TODAY Sports Top 25 baseball poll, with team's RECORDS THROUGH SUNDAY, total points based on 25 for first place through one point for 25th, ranking in the last poll and first-place votes The VBCA believes that better coaches create better players and more importantly, better people. Freshman, L/L In addition, seven Cavaliers were named to the All-ACC team, while Kevin Arico, Hultzen and Phil Gosselin also earned All-America honors. In this period UVA has made five trips to the College World Series and won seven NCAA Regional championships, two ACC tournament titles and two ACC Coastal Division crowns. Elon Bergen Catholic @angelotonas, 6-10 OConnor brought a wealth of baseball experience to Charlottesville when he arrived. Collegiate @jackt.oconnor, 6-0 Virginia enjoyed success once again in the MLB Draft with three selections. @JustinRubin12 / It was an historic year in moving players to the next level as Pavin Smith and Adam Haseley were drafted back-to-back in the top-10 of the first round of the MLB Draft. A graduate of William and Mary, Kirby came to Virginia in 2011 after spending the previous two seasons as a coach at Georgetown. Before joining the Braves organization, McMullan served as acting head coach at East Carolina in 2001-02 for Keith LeClair, who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrigs Disease. Virginia went 50-12 in 2013 while playing host to an NCAA regional and super regional. Miclat also broke the single-season stolen base record (32) as the Cavaliers finished 11th nationally in steals. In 2007, Virginia finished in the top three in the ACC in team batting (.314) with three individuals Miclat (.376, fifth), David Adams (.372, seventh) and Brandon Guyer (.370, ninth) among the ACCs top 10. / @ChaseHungate UVA finished the year with the least amount of strikeouts among ACC schools and recorded the seventh-lowest total in all of college baseball. Help us improve CareerBuilder by providing feedback about this job: Report this job Job ID: g36ak5b. / R/R / UVa finished in the Top 25 of several national polls and won 15 more games than the 2003 squad. The official staff directory for the Virginia Tech Hokies . As a team, the Cavaliers were fifth in the country with a .321 batting average. The Cavaliers also posted series wins at then No. Sophomore, L/L Upon retiring from the insurance industry in 2016, Merry began pursuing his dream of full time baseball. In 2009, OConnor guided Virginia to the programs first College World Series berth while capturing the schools third ACC championship and first regional and super regional crowns on the road to Omaha. Only four other programs nationally have matched that feat. Virginia was ranked No. Falls Church, Va. In OConnors first season as head coach, the Cavaliers recorded a 44-15 overall record, 18-6 mark in the ACC and second-place ACC finish. Defensively, the Cavaliers also have shined under OConnor. / / Learn more. / The Cavaliers also have become a fixture in the national polls, highlighted by UVAs first-ever No. The 18 wins were the most ever by a Cavalier team in league play at the time, and for the first time in school history, Virginia played host to an NCAA regional. 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. / After graduating with a bachelors degree in marketing, OConnor was selected in the 29th round of the Major League Baseball draft by the Philadelphia Phillies. / UVA led the ACC in batting (.314) and ranked second nationally in runs (489) and third in scoring (7.9). / / / @deankampschrorr / UVA has ranked among the top 40 in the nation in total home attendance and average home attendance in all 19 years of OConnors tenure. / As a No. 5 seed. This success has led to record crowds, excitement and national exposure for Virginia Baseball, highlighted by the Cavaliers national championship in 2015. He is one of nine coaches in the history of the ACC to accumulate 700 wins and his .700 winning percentage is the third-highest among active NCAA coaches. 1 seeds and a No. Virginia is one of 16 programs ever to advance to an NCAA Regional 14-straight years. / / Wilson, perhaps the oldest active baseball coach in West Virginia, was set to again serve as an assistant on Jimmy Tribble's staff at Class A Buffalo this spring. The next week, the Cavaliers rebounded from an opening-game loss to Ole Miss to win the final two contests of the NCAA Oxford Super Regional in front of hostile crowds to take the super regional title and earn a berth in the College World Series at Rosenblatt Stadium. Hultzen also was named the ACC Freshman of the Year, while Parker set the Virginia single-season records in runs (75), hits (94) and total bases (176) and tied the record for triples (7). Sophomore, L/L Aside from his numerous coaching experiences, McMullan also had a decorated career as an athlete. @Colin_tuft / Since 2009, over one million fans have come out to Disharoon Park, including more than 100,000 in ten of the last 13 years. 195 / At ECU, he served as the recruiting coordinator, hitting coach and catching instructor. 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: tickets@xula.edu Staff Directory Members By Category/Department 2023 Xavier University of Louisiana. UVa also was the No. The Cavaliers won 13 of their 15 games at Disharoon Park. The Cavaliers led the ACC and ranked 22nd in the NCAA in hits with 570. / @CaseySaucke St. Christopher's The Cavaliers battled through a tumultuous, injury-riddled regular season, but caught fire in the postseason, winning the Lake Elsinore (Calif.) Regional before coming home to defeat Maryland twice to win the Charlottesville Super Regional. Welcome to Virginia Baseball Coaches Association, founded to "unite, educate, develop and support" baseball coaches and promote amateur baseball in the state of Virginia. Arlington, Va. / 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. Teel, Savino and Wyatt all played on the same team in the summer of 2021, tied for the most of any college baseball program in the country. / 1 ranking in 2010. / Baseball; Mike McRae: Head Baseball Coach (757) 221-3492 (757) 221-3492: Daniel Sweeney: Pitching Coach . Buy and Sell Tickets Contact Us Men's Basketball Ticket Information 3D Interactive Seating Map Student Ticket Login . 4 Florida State in successive games. / Ranked No. Playing for the Atlanta Braves on June 25, 2010, Billy earned his 400 th career . 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. / / Highlands Ranch, Colo. St. Johns Country Day / @JohnOrmsby04 VBCA's mission is to unite, educate, develop and support baseball coaches in Virginia. While at IUP, McMullan was the head baseball coach as well as the strength and conditioning coordinator. Jersey City, N.J. 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. Don Bosco Prep Freshman, L/L First year Chris Newell was named the co-National Freshman of the Year by Collegiate Baseball Newspaperwhile he and classmate Max Cotier claimed freshman All-America honors. CareerBuilder TIP. / Papi was named a First-Team All-American while becoming UVAs first ACC batting champion since 1981. 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. 190 @matthewabuchanan, 6-4 Bishop O'Connell Sophomore, R/R Taylor won his first World Series with the Dodgers in 2020. Contact; Sponsors; REGISTER; PROFILE; Search; Team Virginia Baseball. He coached two conference players of the year as well as three All-Americans. / Email Address Phone; Head Coach Tracy Woodson: twoodson@richmond.edu: 289-8391 289-8391: Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator Nate Mulberg: nmulberg@richmond.edu: OConnors 2006 squad set a then-school record with 47 wins on its way to a 47-15 mark, including 21 conference wins. The fan base continued to rally around the team as UVA averaged a program-best 3,298 fans per game (125,355 total). The official Baseball Coach List for the . Junior, R/R OConnor was named the head baseball coach at Virginia on July 8, 2003, and he and his staff wasted no time in propelling the program to new heights. In 2010 the Cavaliers won a school-record 51 games, was ranked No. OConnor is married to the former Cindy Petratis. Virginia Cavaliers Official Athletic Site, Academics and Student-Athlete Development, Virginia Sports Radio Network - Listen Live. The couple has three children two daughters, Ellie and Maggie, and a son, Dillon. / Basketball - Men's - John Paul Jones Arena - PO Box 400823 - Charlottesville VA, 22904-4823 - Phone: 434-982-5400 - Fax: 434-982-5425. / Virginia has ranked in the top 20 nationally 10 times (second-highest total in college baseball), including six top-three marks. / / Virginia won 10 of its last 14 regular-season games that included a pair of one-run road losses against then-No. 3 national seed, UVA won four games at the CWS in reaching the CWS championship game. The APR provides a clear picture of the academic culture in each sport. / / Seven Cavaliers were named All-ACC, with four claiming All-America honors Hultzen, Kline, John Hicks and Will Roberts. He was a member of six championship teams at IUP. / Thaiss competed on the 2015 team, while McCarthy was on the 2017 squad. 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. / With their backs against the wall after dropping the Columbia Regional opener to host South Carolina, Virginia rallied with four-straight elimination game victories, capped by a Devin Ortiz walk-off home run in the 10th inning against Old Dominion in the Regional Final. OConnor was inducted into the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Associations Hall of Fame in 2017. / 3 midway through the year. The official Baseball Coach List for the University of Washington Huskies. Ridgewood, N.J. The official Baseball Coach List for the Longwood University Lancers. 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. Virginia Beach, Va. @tcourt24, 6-5 @_mabe_10, 6-1 Three Cavaliers were selected in the first round in 2014, the most of any program in the country. Prior to the shutdown the Cavaliers had been ranked as high as No. Lebanon 205 @jay.woolfolk, 6-2 180 @_ethan.anderson_, 6-0 Any information, questions, need of games, tournament information, or suggestions for the website put a message here. Freshman, R/R @kevinjaxeljr, 5-11 434 Edgemont Circle Vinton, VA 24179. Five Cavalier position players and utility player Nick Howard were named to the All-ACC Team. / Despite numerous setbacks throughout the season, Virginia kept battling, and that never-say-die attitude was never more evident than in the postseason: UVA scored the go-ahead run in the fifth inning or later in each of their 10 postseason wins. Penn McMullan guided Joe Koshansky to the 2004 ACC Player of the Year award, a program first. / / / @ant.stephan, 6-0 Email Address; Joe Murray : Strength & Conditioning Coach jmurra43@uw.edu: Iain Mistrot: Athletic Trainer (206) 616-0156 (206) 616-0156: / Coach Chuck Spraker : 15U (757) 773-8858 Four qualified hitters sported .300 batting averages including Tanner Morris (.345) and Nic Kent (.337) who ranked 7th and 11th in the ACC, respectively. 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