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Mark Wasikowski

Mark Wasikowski
Sport(s) Baseball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Purdue
Conference Big Ten
Record 29–27
Biographical details
Born Seal Beach, California
Playing career
1990 Hawaii
1991 Rancho Santiago
1992–1993 Pepperdine
Position(s) Third baseman
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1997–1998 Southeast Missouri State (assistant)
1999–2001 Florida (assistant)
2002–2011 Arizona (assistant)
2012–2016 Oregon (assistant)
2017–present Purdue
Head coaching record
Overall 29–27
Accomplishments and honors
Awards

Mark Wasikowski is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Purdue Boilermakers baseball team.

Wasikowski was a third baseman at Hawaii, Rancho Santiago and Pepperdine and was on the team that won the 1992 College World Series. He later earned All-West Coast Conference honors twice and was a team captain as a senior in 1993. Following the 1993 season, Wasikowski was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers, but he opted to stay at Pepperdine to complete his bachelor's degree. Beginning in 1997, Wasikowski was a graduate assistant at Southeast Missouri State University. Upon completion of the 1998 season, Wasikowski was named an assistant at Florida, where he was reunited with his former coach, Andy Lopez. Wasikowski would go with Lopez to Arizona, where he spent 10 season with the Wildcats. In 2012, Wasikowski was hired to be an assistant at Oregon.

On July 24, 2016, Wasikowski earned his first head coaching job at Purdue. On February 17, 2017, Wasikowski won his first ever game as a college coach.

Wasikowski inherited a team that went 10–44 in 2016 finishing last in the Big Ten Conference. Wasikowski guided the Boilermakers to a 29–25 regular season, clinching the 8th seed in the 2017 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament. Purdue's 19 win improvement in 2017 from 2016 was the largest improvement in NCAA Division I baseball during the 2017 season.

      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


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