Craig Gibson
| Sport(s) | Baseball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Mercer |
| Conference | SoCon |
| Record | 358–268 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | Macon, Georgia |
| Alma mater | Mercer University '86 |
| Playing career | |
| 1983–1986 | Mercer |
| Position(s) | 1B |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1987–1988 | Mercer (asst.) |
| 1994–2003 | Mercer (asst.) |
| 2004–present | Mercer |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 358–268 |
| Tournaments | NCAA: 1–4 A-Sun: 12–15 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| A-Sun: 2013, 2017 A-Sun Tournament: 2010 |
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| Awards | |
| A-Sun Coach of the Year (2013) Georgia Dugout Club Division I Coach of the Year (2010) |
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Craig Gibson is an American college baseball coach who has been the head coach of Mercer since the start of the 2004 season. Under Gibson, Mercer has appeared in its first two NCAA Tournaments. A Macon native, Gibson is a Mercer alumnus and played baseball for the Bears from 1983–1986, winning a conference player of the year award as a junior.
After he completed his playing career and undergraduate degree at Mercer in 1986, Gibson spent the next two seasons as an assistant coach at Mercer while earning his graduate degree. He left after the 1988 season and spent the next six years as a high school coach in South Florida. He returned to Mercer as an assistant for the 1994 season.
After a ten-year stint as a Mercer assistant in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Gibson succeeded Barry Myers as the Bears' head coach for the start of the 2004 season. For his first two seasons, Link Jarrett, who would later coach against Gibson in the Southern Conference as UNC Greensboro, served as one of Gibson's assistants. The Bears made their first postseason appearance under Gibson in 2006, when they finished 3rd in the Atlantic Sun Conference (A-Sun) to qualify for the A-Sun Tournament. As the second seed (second-place North Florida was ineligible), Mercer went 2–2. They defeated East Tennessee State in the opening game, then lost to Stetson, 6–5 in extra innings, in their second. In the losers bracket, the Bears knocked out top-seeded Jacksonville, before being eliminated with another one-run loss to Stetson.
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