List of UConn Huskies head baseball coaches

The UConn Huskies baseball program is a college baseball team that represents the University of Connecticut in the American Athletic Conference. The Huskies compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. The current head coach is Jim Penders, who will coach his seventeenth season in 2020.

The team has had nineteen head coaches since its first season of baseball in 1896. There was no team in 1918 due to World War I. Since its creation in 1947, the Huskies have made five appearances in the College World Series, two under J. Orlean Christian and three under Larry Panciera.

Panciera holds the highest winning percentage in Connecticut baseball history, with a .648 mark over his eighteen seasons. James Nicholas and Charles A. Reed both failed to win a game and share the mark for lowest winning percentage. Christian coached the longest, staying for 26 seasons, while nine coaches served only one season. Baylock delivered both Husky Big East Conference baseball tournament championships in 1990 and 1994, along with the only divisional championship (1985) of the seven seasons the Big East played in a two division format. Penders won the only conference regular season championship in 2011.[1]

Key

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Coaches

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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[h] GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PA PW PL WA WW WL DCs CCs CTs NCs Awards[i]
1 No Coach 1896–1898, 1912 27 12 15 0 .444 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
2 T. D. Knowles 1899–1901 21 12 8 1 .595 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
3 Edwin O. Smith 1902–1905 22 12 9 1 .568 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
4 George E. Lamson 1906–1908 26 12 13 1 .481 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
5 John Sullivan 1909–1910 16 9 7 0 .563 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
6 James Nicholas 1911 9 0 9 0 .000 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
7 Robert Edger 1913 10 4 6 0 .400 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
8 Charles A. Reed 1914 4 0 4 0 .000 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
9 J. J. Donovan 1915 8 1 7 0 .125 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
10 D. E. Chase 1916 9 1 8 0 .111 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
11 John J. Donahue 1917 2 1 1 0 .500 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
12 Roy J. Guyer 1919 12 6 6 0 .500 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
13 William Mellor 1920 11 3 8 0 .273 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
14 Ross Swartz 1921 14 2 11 1 .179 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
15 J. Wilder Tasker 1922–1923 30 12 18 0 .400 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
16 Sumner Dole 1924–1935 156 64 90 2 .417 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 —
17 J. Orlean Christian 1936–1961 431 254 170 7 .597 — — — — 5 8 9 2 1 4 — 7 — 0 —
18 Larry Panciera 1962–1979 462 297 160 5 .648 — — — — 7 15 16 3 2 6 — — — 0 NCAA Northeast Region (1979)
19 Andy Baylock 1980–2003 1056 556 492 8 .530 205 206 0 .499 3 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 Big East (1992)
20 Jim Penders 2004–present 1,027 656 432 5 .611 243 281 1 .464 8 17 18 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 Big East (2006, 10, 11, 21); AAC (2016)

Notes

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  1. ^ A running total of the number of head coaches.
  2. ^ UConn's joined the Eastern College Athletic Conference in 1980, but conference records are incomplete. The Big East Conference began sponsoring baseball in 1985.
  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 Big East Conference used a divisional format for seven seasons: 1985–1989 and 1996–1997. Regular season conference championships were not recognized in those seasons.
  7. ^ The Big East Conference baseball tournament began in 1985.
  8. ^ Connecticut did not sponsor a baseball team in 1918.
  9. ^ National, regional and conference coach of the year awards.

References

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  1. ^ 2012 Baseball Online Media Guide. uconnhuskies.com. p. 46. Archived from the original on June 15, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
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