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 | |
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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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