Four qualified hitters sported .300 batting averages including Tanner Morris (.345) and Nic Kent (.337) who ranked 7th and 11th in the ACC, respectively. Four players were named All-ACC, led by Sean Doolittle, who was the ACC Player of the Year. 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. 1 North Carolina and No. 1 by Baseball America for 12 weeks during the 2010 season and for a dozen more weeks in 2011. @treif8 1 national seed in the NCAA Tournament and advancing to its second College World Series while winning ACC Tournament and Coastal Division championships. / / Freshman, L/L / / / / After a slow start to the season, UVA caught fire in the back half of the ACC schedule, including a series win at then-No. The Cavaliers posted two wins at the CWS before eventual national champion South Carolina eliminated UVA in a 13-inning contest. Maury / UVA led the league and was third in the nation in ERA (2.81), led by Thompson with a league-best 1.50 mark. He was a member of six championship teams at IUP. Thompson notched a silver medal with Team USA at the 2007 Pan American Games. / The Cavaliers were unranked going into the season and ascended as high as No. 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 / Since 2009, UVA owns 50 NCAA tournament wins tied for the fifth most in the nation. Left-handed pitcher Danny Hultzen was taken second overall in the 2011 MLB Draft by the Seattle Mariners, marking UVAs highest draft pick ever. The Cavaliers won 13 of their 15 games at Disharoon Park. St. Johns College In McMullans three years, the Pirates finished in the Top 25 each season. / Washington College @bradhodgess, 6-1 . / @ConnellyEarly Virginia reached its 14th-straight NCAA Tournament in 2017. / 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. Freshman, R/R 210 Guyer, Doolittle and Adams were named to the All-ACC team, and the program earned its best-ever national ranking, No. Connect with Coach Szefc Email: vtbaseball@vt.edu . Jersey City, N.J. Only four other programs nationally have matched that feat. @bradhodgess / 195 / The VBCA believes that better coaches create better players and more importantly, better people. 4 Florida State in successive games. Contact; Sponsors; REGISTER; PROFILE; Search; Team Virginia Baseball. CareerBuilder TIP. 215 / The 2001 Irish team was 49-13-1, ranked No. George Wythe Upon retiring from the insurance industry in 2016, Merry began pursuing his dream of full time baseball. Virginia reached its 13th straight NCAA tournament in 2016 while hosting its ninth regional in the last 13 seasons. As a pitcher on the Creighton baseball team under then-CU head coach and former Chicago Cubs general manager Jim Hendry, OConnor posted a career record of 20-13 with seven saves and a 3.78 ERA. Ortiz was the Most Outstanding Player of the Columbia Regional and Zack Gelof was named to the All-College World Series team after going 7-for-12 in three games. Branden Kline, Justin Thompson and Keith Werman each were named to the All-ACC team, while Derek Fisher was a unanimous selection as a freshman All-American. / / 1-North Carolina and Clemson UVAs first series win ever at Clemson. Moorestown 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. Virginia produced the best fielding percentage in the school history, touting a .981 mark which ranked fourth nationally. / @JakeGelof / Virginia swept five three-game series over conference foes, including a three-game sweep over Georgia Tech in Atlanta for the first time in school history. The Cavaliers also have become a fixture in the national polls, highlighted by UVAs first-ever No. The Cavaliers turned their season around in dramatic fashion, closing out the regular season by winning 10 of the last 14 games and finished .500 in the ACC at 18-18. St. Christopher's Freshman, R/R 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 offense propelled UVA to a 22-1 record in the first 23 games, the best start in program history. @ChaseHungate 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. Virginia Commonwealth University. The Cavaliers also finished seventh nationally in fielding percentage with a then-school record mark of .977. 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. Tony Bennett. Woburn, Mass. He helped St. Johns to three Big East championship appearances and a Big East title as well as an NCAA Regional berth in 1997. OConnor was named the National Coach of the Year in 2015 by the ABCA, Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball, D1Baseball and Perfect Game, marking the third year he has earned such an honor. / / His last three Notre Dame teams were among the most successful in the schools history. 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. In 1990, he was a Pioneer League All-Star. The Cavaliers led the ACC and ranked 22nd in the NCAA in hits with 570. / 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. 190 Eight Cavalier starters batted at least .300. @colin.tuft, 6-1 Graduate Student, R/R 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). Published: Feb. 27, 2023 at 9:01 AM PST | Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 12:11 PM PST. Virginia played host to a regional in 2012 while going 39-19-1 and earning a second-place finish in the ACC Coastal Division. @JohnOrmsby04 Virginia Tech 17, Radford 2: Carson Jones hit a grand slam to cap a nine-run fourth . / Junior, R/R / UVA then traveled to the NCAA Irvine Regional and impressively topped San Diego State and soon-to-be MLB No. 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). 1 in the nation at midseason and played in the NCAA tournament. The official Roster for the West Virginia University Mountaineers. / While with the Braves, he also coordinated the catchers in spring training and was the coordinator of extended spring training. Three Cavaliers were selected in the first round in 2014, the most of any program in the country. / The Cavaliers played host to an NCAA Regional and bowed out in the championship to eventual national champion Oregon State. A Cavalier has played in the Fall Classic in five-straight seasons from 2016-2020, something no other college baseball program in the country accomplished in that span. / Doolittle, a two-time MLB All-Star, became the first former Cavalier pitcher to appear in the All-Star Game in 2014. Five players earned first-team All-ACC honors, with Hultzen and Parker each gleaning All-America laurels. 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. Freshman, L/L Basketball - Men's - John Paul Jones Arena - PO Box 400823 - Charlottesville VA, 22904-4823 - Phone: 434-982-5400 - Fax: 434-982-5425. 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). 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. 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. Main Navigation Menu. @_nickjparker_, 6-0 @@CullenMcKay22 / Learn more. Along with Gelof, two-way player Devin Ortiz earned All-America honors from three different publications. 200 @kevin_jaxel @jay.woolfolk, 6-2 / Falls Church, Va. / Miclat also broke the single-season stolen base record (32) as the Cavaliers finished 11th nationally in steals. / The Virginia pitching staff ranked 14th in the country in ERA and fourth in strikeouts with a school-record, 687. McMullan also was a two-sport NCAA All-American as a catcher in baseball and a linebacker in football at IUP. 210 Sophomore, R/R Bryn Mawr, Pa. Seven Cavaliers were named All-ACC, with four claiming All-America honors Hultzen, Kline, John Hicks and Will Roberts. / Randolph-Macon Athletics 103 E. Patrick St., Ashland, VA. 23005-5505 Main: 804-752-7200 Admissions: 800-888-1762 Athletics: 804-752-7223 / Bobby Prince - Head Coach; Mark Andrews - Assistant Coach; Jay McLain - Assistant Coach; Karen Prince - Assistant Coach; 195 / / Mark Reynolds also flourished, tying the then-single-season school runs record of 60 in 2004. / / In his first season with the Cavaliers, McMullan helped UVa to major increases in runs scored (101) and bases on balls (87) from the previous year. 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. / Williamsburg, Va. 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. Four position players earned All-ACC accolades including the top RBI duo in program history in Gelof and Alex Tappen who each earned first team nods. Junior, R/L American Heritage / / Virginia has succeeded in the classroom as well. / / Richmond, Va. A program-record 14 former Cavaliers played in Major League Baseball in 2020 and four Cavaliers made their MLB debuts in 2020, tied for the most of any college baseball program. Haseley, a Golden Spikes award finalist, was the ACC batting champion and was taken eighth overall by the Philadelphia Phillies. McMullan also served as an assistant coach at St. Johns (1996-99) and coached at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1994-96). 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. Baylor School (TN) He is a five-time recipient of ABCA Atlantic Region Coach of the Year laurels (2004, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015) and five-time ACC Coach of the Year honoree (2004, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014). / / 5 seed. @jackt_oconnor The start saw the Cavaliers go unbeaten in its first 14 games for the second time in OConnors tenure. Both Teel and third baseman Zack Gelof earned All-ACC accolades. @CaseySaucke In addition, seven Cavaliers were named to the All-ACC team, while Kevin Arico, Hultzen and Phil Gosselin also earned All-America honors. / @matthewabuchanan, 6-4 Mike Papi was named a First-Team All-American while becoming UVas first ACC batting champion since 1981. uvabaseball@virginia.edu 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. Taylor won his first World Series with the Dodgers in 2020. Highlands Ranch, Colo. / / (757) 648-5350. James Madison The 2009 National Assistant Coach of the Year, McMullan has helped guide Virginia to 789 wins in his 19 seasons, an average of nearly 42 wins per season. Mahwah 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. Rochester, N.Y. 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. 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. 3 national seed, UVA won four games at the CWS in reaching the CWS championship game. / / 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). 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