List of Arizona Wildcats head baseball coaches

This is a list of Arizona Wildcats head baseball coaches. The Arizona Wildcats baseball program is a college baseball team that represents the University of Arizona in the Pac-12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.[1] The team has seen 17 individuals hold the head coach position since it started playing organized baseball in the 1904 season. 3 of these coaches had non-consecutive tenures.

Since 1950 - which the university considers the beginning of its modern baseball program - only six people have held the position.[2]

The current coach is Chip Hale, who helmed his first season in 2022.

Having served for 33 seasons, J.F. "Pop" McKale is the longest tenured coach in program history. Jerry Kindall holds the record for wins at 860. Kindall won 3 College World Series titles while in Tucson, and Andy Lopez won 1. Frank Sancet, Jerry Kindall and Andy Lopez have all been inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.

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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 2019 NCAA Division I baseball season
# Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PA PW PL WA WW WL CCs CTs NCs Awards[g]
1 B.L. Cosgrave 1904 7 6 1 0 .857 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
2 R. Newton 1905, 1907 13 7 6 0 .538 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
3 B.R. Hatcher 1906, 1908 14 12 2 0 .857 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
4 Dan Farrish 1909 12 8 4 0 .667 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
5 R. Rigg 1910 7 2 5 0 .286 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
6 William Honley 1911 6 2 4 0 .333 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
7 Joe Collins 1912 11 7 4 0 .636 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
8 R.L. Quigley 1913 1 1 0 0 1.000 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
9 C.R. Stewart 1914 8 4 4 0 .500 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
10 Pop McKale 1915–1919,

1922–1949

384 257 119 8 .669 — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
11 W.A. Porter 1920–1921 23 18 5 0 .783 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
12 Frank Sancet† 1950–1972 1,122 831 283 8 .741 83 62 0 .572 16 41 35 9 17 18 4 3 0 —
13 Jerry Kindall† 1973–1996 1,446 860 579 7 .595 326 320 1 .504 12 39 21 5 15 7 4 4 3 1976, 1980, 1986 National Coach of the Year

1980, 1989, 1992 Pac-10 South Coach of the Year

14 Jerry Stitt 1997–2001 282 157 125 0 .557 58 74 0 .439 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 — 0 —
15 Andy Lopez† 2002–2015 815 490 324 1 .601 186 183 0 .504 8 28 15 2 6 2 1 — 1 2012 National Coach of the Year

2012 Pac-12 Coach of the Year

16 Jay Johnson 2016–2021 322 208 114 0 .646 82 67 0 .550 3 17 9 2 5 5 1 — 0 2016 National Coach of the Year

2021 Pac-12 Coach of the Year

17 Chip Hale 2022– Present 121 72 49 0 .595 28 32 0 .467 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 —

Notes

  1. ^ A running total of the number of head coaches.
  2. ^ The Wildcats played as part of the Border Conference from 1931 until joining the Western Athletic Conference in 1962. Border Conference records are incomplete, and are not included in this table. Arizona joined the Pacific-10 Conference in 1978, which became the Pac-12 Conference after the addition of Utah and Colorado in 2011.
  3. ^ Postseason play involving the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.
  4. ^ Postseason appearances include seasons with NCAA Division I Baseball Championship bids since the tournament began in 1947.
  5. ^ College World Series appearances include seasons with CWS bids since the tournament began in 1947.
  6. ^ The Western Athletic Conference hosted a Best-of-3 Playoff between division champions from 1963-1981. The Pac-12 Conference introduced a Tournament in 2022.
  7. ^ National, regional and conference coach of the year awards.

References

  1. ^ "University of Arizona". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  2. ^ Gleason, Brett (2022). 2022 Arizona Baseball Media Guide (PDF). Arizona Wildcats. pp. 122–123. Retrieved December 19, 2019.