List of Coastal Carolina Chanticleers head baseball coaches

Coastal Carolina Chanticleers is an American college baseball team that represents Coastal Carolina University in the Sun Belt Conference. The Chanticleers compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I.

Coastal Carolina did not begin playing baseball until 1974, where they originally competed in the NAIA. They would remain in the NAIA until 1983, when they and seven other schools formed the Big South Conference. That league would petition for Div 1 status, gaining Div 1 status in 1985. Coastal would remain in the Big South Conference until the conclusion of the 2016 season, when they left for the Sun Belt Conference in order to play FBS Football.

There have been six head baseball coaches at Coastal Carolina.

Key

Coaches

List of head baseball coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards *Statistics correct as of the end of the 2024 NCAA Division I baseball season
# Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PA PW PL WA WW WL DCs CCs CTs NCs Awards[A 3]
1 John Vrooman 1974-1977, 1987-1995 642 366 276 0 .570 118 55 — .682 1 0 2 — — — — 5 2 — NAIA Southeastern Region Coach (1977)
Big South Conference Coach of the Year (1988, 1990)
2 Larry Carr 1978-1984 338 253 84 1 .749 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
3 Russ Bergman 1984 15 12 3 — .800 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
4 Bobby Richardson 1985-1986 99 61 38 — .616 22 14 — .611 — — — — — — — — 1 — —
5 Gary Gilmore 1996-2024 1,710 1,114 593 3 .651 460 202 2 .693 22 37 38 1 6 2 4 14 13 1 Big South Coach of the Year (1999, 2002, 2005, 2007–2010, 2012)
Sun Belt Coach of the Year (2018, 2023)
NCAA Division I National Coach of the Year (2016)[1]
6 Kevin Schnall 2025-present — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

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Notes

  1. ^ A running total of the number of head coaches.
  2. ^ Postseason play involving the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.
  3. ^ National, regional and conference coach of the year awards.

References

  1. ^ "Gary Gilmore - Baseball Coach". Coastal Carolina University Athletics.
  2. ^ "2024 Coastal Carolina Baseball Gameday Program" (PDF). Go CCU Sports. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Coastal Carolina Names Kevin Schnall Head Baseball Coach". Coastal Carolina University Athletics. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  4. ^ Burgin, Chris (10 June 2024). "The torch has been passed: Kevin Schnall is the new head baseball coach at #CCU". SportsTalkSC. Retrieved 11 June 2024.