/ Under OConnors direction, Virginia qualified for its 14th consecutive NCAA Tournament and finished with 43 wins, the 11th time his club reached the 40-win mark. The Cavaliers posted two wins at the CWS before eventual national champion South Carolina eliminated UVA in a 13-inning contest. @harrisondidawick, 6-1 / / The Cavaliers also swept Clemson in three games for the first time since 1972. Three Cavaliers were selected in the first round in 2014, the most of any program in the country. @_mabe_10, 6-1 / @Matt2021lefty Papi was named a First-Team All-American while becoming UVAs first ACC batting champion since 1981. 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. 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. / @aidan_teel, 6-4 @the_ethana The VBCA provides a collaborative network of experienced coaches at . / 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. OConnor brought a wealth of baseball experience to Charlottesville when he arrived. 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). Team USA went 12-3 on a three-week international tour that included games against Cuba, Chinese Taipei and Japan. UVA led the conference in batting (.331) for the second straight year and set school records in runs (525), doubles (160), triples (32) and total bases (1166). @ant.stephan, 6-0 Austin Preparatory School Bobby Prince - Head Coach; Mark Andrews - Assistant Coach; Jay McLain - Assistant Coach; Karen Prince - Assistant Coach; Bishop O'Connell Graduate Student, L/R @Griff_OFerrall / 1 North Carolina and No. 235 Five Cavalier position players were drafted following the season, including first rounders Derek Fisher and Papi. Virginia has succeeded in the classroom as well. 210 The Virginia pitching staff ranked 14th in the country in ERA and fourth in strikeouts with a school-record, 687. / Virginia enjoyed the best start in program history through its first 23 games, racing out to a 22-1 mark in 2022. During the summer of 2018, OConnor joined forces with his former boss at Notre Dame and former LSU head coach Paul Mainieri on the staff of the U.S. Collegiate National Team. While at IUP, McMullan was the head baseball coach as well as the strength and conditioning coordinator. @_agreene1 / Clutch hitting, a staple of the UVA program, was never more present than the 2021 postseason. This success has led to record crowds, excitement and national exposure for Virginia Baseball, highlighted by the Cavaliers national championship in 2015. / Paul VI Don Bosco Prep 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. Sophomore, S/R The Cavaliers will host Rhode Island in a scheduled four-game weekend series set to begin at 3 p.m. Friday. Virginia was ranked No. Basketball - Men's - John Paul Jones Arena - PO Box 400823 - Charlottesville VA, 22904-4823 - Phone: 434-982-5400 - Fax: 434-982-5425. / @tcourt24, 6-5 175 The APR provides a clear picture of the academic culture in each sport. While with the Braves, he also coordinated the catchers in spring training and was the coordinator of extended spring training. Richmond, Va. Baseball Coaches - Virginia Military Institute Baseball at Mercer May 14, 2022 2 p.m. Boxscore Baseball at Mercer May 14, 2022 2 p.m. BB Final Sun May 15 VMI 7 Mercer 8 Recap Baseball at Mercer May 15, 2022 1 p.m. Boxscore Baseball at Mercer May 15, 2022 1 p.m. BB Final Tue May 17 Old Dominion 8 VMI 6 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. Rehoboth Beach, Del. 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. @angelotonas / 1 national seed in the NCAA Tournament and advancing to its second College World Series while winning ACC Tournament and Coastal Division championships. Left-handed pitcher Danny Hultzen was taken second overall in the 2011 MLB Draft by the Seattle Mariners, marking UVAs highest draft pick ever. 208 Nathan Kirby earned First-Team All-America honors and was tabbed the Co-ACC Pitcher of the Year; he also was one of a record eight Cavaliers named to the All-ACC Team. / / / 789 wins, including 573 wins since 2009 (fifth most in the nation). Shawn Stiffler - Head Coach - Baseball Coaches - Virginia Commonwealth University Choose a Staff Member: Shawn Stiffler Title Head Coach Email smstiffler@vcu.edu Phone 804-828-4822 Head Coach Shawn Stiffler enters his 11th season at the helm of VCU baseball for the 2022-2023 season. McMullans father, John McMullan, was an All-America football player at Notre Dame and played in the NFL with the New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles and New York Titans (now the Jets). Norfolk, Va. Baseball - Virginia Cavaliers Official Athletic Site Baseball Team Coaches Schedule News Stats Facilities Recruits 2022-23 Baseball Roster print Players Coaching Staff 2 2 Ethan O'Donnell OF 6-1 / 190 / Junior L/R / Highlands Ranch, Colo. / Northwestern / Regis Jesuit / @ethanodonnell 3 3 Kyle Teel C/INF 6-1 / 190 / Junior / / DeMatha Catholic @chrisbaker_33 / 5 national ranking. @treif8, 6-1 Shortstop Greg Miclat was named First-Team All-ACC and tied the school record for career stolen bases with 83. / Freshman, L/L 185 1-North Carolina and Clemson UVAs first series win ever at Clemson. 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. Assistant Baseball Coach 804-524-5816 804-524-5816: Basketball (Men) Lonnie Blow, Jr. Head Men's Basketball Coach . Thaiss was UVAs fifth first-round MLB Draft pick in the last three seasons, while Jones (second round) and shortstop Daniel Pinero (ninth) also were chosen in the draft. / / @jackt_oconnor / The VBCA mission it to unite, educate and support baseball coaches in Virginia. Jersey City, N.J. For the last three years, Merry has been a regular instructor at the University of Virginia baseball . Rochester, N.Y. Pavin Smith set the single-season school record for RBIs in a season with 77, the fifth most in the nation. In 2002, Notre Dame had an overall record of 50-18, won the Big East Championship and advanced to the College World Series. Freshman, L/L 1 nationally for much of the season, Virginia earned the No. O'Connor has taken the Virginia baseball team to fourteen NCAA baseball . The Irish compiled an overall record of 45-18 in 2003, won the Big East Conference Championship and advanced to the NCAA tournament. The Cavaliers also posted series wins at then No. / / @aidan_teel 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. UVA owns the best fielding percentage in the ACC since his arrival in 2004 (.973). James Madison Sophomore, R/R / / Sophomore, R/R Main Navigation Menu. In 2010, the Cavaliers posted a 51-14 record, setting a then-school record for wins in a season as well as ACC wins in a year (23). / Virginia Cavaliers Official Athletic Site, Academics and Student-Athlete Development, Virginia Sports Radio Network - Listen Live. 1 in the nation at midseason and played in the NCAA tournament. / In videos . 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. / Lebanon, Va. The 2004 team had a 44-15 overall record and 18-6 mark in the ACC. Freshman, L/L Stephen Bruno had a huge year, batting .370 while tying a school record with 23 doubles. . . / / Graduate Student, R/R In 2007, Virginia boasted a 45-16 record and 19-9 mark in the ACC en route to a second-place finish in the ACC Coastal Division. A season of promise was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic that shutdown all of college baseball. The 2014 team set a program record with a .981 fielding percentage, while the Cavaliers have eclipsed the .970 mark in fielding 14 times in his 19 years. For the 12th time in 15 seasons, a UVA position player was named to an All-America team when junior Andy Weber was recognized by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. Sacred Heart Schools Atherton @_ethan.anderson_, 6-0 McMullan guided Joe Koshansky to the 2004 ACC Player of the Year award, a program first. Graduate Student, L/R / Virginia has led the ACC in batting over the last 14 years combined. The Cavaliers had two of the top four players to strikeout in the ACC in Brendan Rivoli and Logan Michaels. / IMG Academy The start saw the Cavaliers go unbeaten in its first 14 games for the second time in OConnors tenure. Frank W. Cox (757) 648-5350. 434 Edgemont Circle Vinton, VA 24179. 210 / Richmond, Va. Hultzen was a Capital One First-Team Academic All-American in 2011, while Tyler Wilson was the winner of the esteemed Lowes Senior CLASS Award for Baseball in 2011. 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. / The Official Athletics Site of the Greensboro College Pride. St. Johns College / / / / 7 NC State. 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. 180 At St. Johns, McMullan was the recruiting coordinator and hitting coach and also coached the catchers. / / Both Teel and third baseman Zack Gelof earned All-ACC accolades. / 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. / . / The Cavaliers were once against successful in the MLB Draft with six selections and an ACC-high, five in the first 10 rounds. The Cavaliers once again dropped the opening game but rallied for back-to-back victories to clinch the programs fifth berth into the College World Series. Guyer, Doolittle and Adams were named to the All-ACC team, and the program earned its best-ever national ranking, No. / Taylor won his first World Series with the Dodgers in 2020. / R/R Kline was a member of the 2011 Collegiate National Team. He came to Virginia after spending nine seasons at Notre Dame (1995-2003) under current LSU coach Paul Mainieri, for whom he served as an assistant coach from 1995-2001 before earning a promotion to associate head coach in 2001. 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. 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. Search. / After sustaining success throughout the OConnor tenure, Virginia reached college baseballs summit in 2015 with the programs first national championship. contact for all media inquiries) 231-9965 231-9965: Carter W. Brown: Director, Creative Communications (Football credentials . 180 / Sophomore, R/R Koshansky set the school record for most RBI in a single season (67). @bradhodgess Doolittle and Zimmerman teamed up on the Washington Nationals in 2019 to bring home the franchises first World Series title. 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. Arlington, Va. Zimmerman, Doolittle, Thompson, Branden Kline, Thaiss, Jake McCarthy, Andrew Abbott, Kyle Teel, Nate Savino and Matt Wyatt each played on USA Baseball collegiate national teams. 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. / The 2014 Cavaliers set the program record for fielding percentage with a .981 mark, which ranked fourth nationally. / @Avemabe10 / Gelof went on to be selected in the second round (60th overall) by the Oakland Athletics and shortstop Nic Kent was taken in the 11th round by the Colorado Rockies. 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. He served on Mainieris staff as the pitching coach alongside his former college coach Jim Hendry who was the teams bench coach. Search. Virginia reached the NCAA Tournament in each of McMullans first 14 seasons, one of 15 programs ever to qualify for the NCAA tournament 14-straight seasons. @tcourt_ Email Address Phone Image; Administration; Peggy Davis: . UVa ranked third nationally in doubles (148), fourth in hits (709) and fifth in runs (471). Howard and Mike Papi joined Kirby as 2014 All-Americans. He helped St. Johns to three Big East championship appearances and a Big East title as well as an NCAA Regional berth in 1997. @kyle_teel, 6-0 He was hired by Virginia Tech Director of Athletics Whit Babcock on June 9, 2017 . 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. 7 seed in the ACC tournament, the Cavaliers went to the championship by knocking off three ranked opponents, including two wins over Clemson and a triumph over NC State. @evandob21 / The fan base continued to rally around the team as UVA averaged a program-best 3,298 fans per game (125,355 total). 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. All questions should be directed to Student Activities Coordinator, Shani Twyman, SAC at Green Run HS. Virginia Cavaliers Official Athletic Site, Academics and Student-Athlete Development, Virginia Sports Radio Network - Listen Live. Baseball; Randy Mazey: Head Coach (304) 293-2300 (304) 293-2300: CoachMazey: Steve Sabins . McMullan also served as an assistant coach at St. Johns (1996-99) and coached at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1994-96). UVA finished the year with the least amount of strikeouts among ACC schools and recorded the seventh-lowest total in all of college baseball. 215 Falls Church, Va. @colin.tuft, 6-1 5 from Baseball America, the Cavaliers struggled out the gate in 2021, particularly in league play dropping 12 of its first 16 ACC contests. Virginia averaged 3,148 fans per game, shattering the previous record by nearly 1,400 fans per game. Sunrise, Fla. As a team, the Cavaliers hit .292 as a team, the second highest in the league while committing just 47 errors, the second lowest amongst ACC Cohorts. Virginia also earned its first-ever No. UVA has racked up four 50-win seasons since 2010 and also has reached the top of the national polls in four seasons. 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