Sport(s) | Baseball |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Michigan State |
Conference | Big Ten |
Record | 264–180 |
Biographical details | |
Alma mater | Alma College |
Playing career | |
1990–1993 | Alma |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1996–1997 | Iowa Central CC (asst.) |
1998–2004 | Eastern Michigan (asst.) |
2005–2007 | Michigan (asst.) |
2008 | Eastern Michigan |
2009–Present | Michigan State |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 253–204 |
Tournaments | NCAA: 0–4 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
1 MAC West Division Championship (2008) 1 MAC Tournament Championship (2008) 1 Big Ten Regular Season Championship (2011) 2 NCAA Regional Appearances (2008, 2012) |
Jake Boss is an American college baseball coach, currently the head coach of Michigan State. He is the former head baseball coach of Eastern Michigan.
Boss played college baseball at Division III Alma College from 1990–1993. In the mid-1990s, Boss served as a high school and community college baseball coach before accepting an assistant coaching position at Eastern Michigan prior to the 1997 season. He left Eastern Michigan after the 2004 season to serve as an assistant at Michigan from 2005–2007.
Boss was named the head coach at Eastern Michigan for the 2008 season and spent one year there. Under Boss, the team lost its first 17 games but went 25–17 for the remainder of the season. The Eagles won the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Western Division Title and the MAC Tournament, thus qualifying for the NCAA Tournament.
On July 1, 2008, Boss was named head baseball coach at Michigan State. Boss made his first NCAA Tournament appearance with Michigan State in 2012.
Below is a table of Boss's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.
National champion Postseason invitational champion
Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion
Conference tournament champion