Mike Batesole
Batesole in 2017 at Falcon Baseball Field.
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| Sport(s) | Baseball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Fresno State |
| Conference | Mountain West |
| Record | 411–308 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 28, 1964 Anaheim, California |
| Alma mater | California State University, Northridge |
| Playing career | |
| 1983–1984 | Oral Roberts |
| 1985 | Great Falls Dodgers |
| 1986 | Bakersfield Dodgers |
| 1987–1988 | Vero Beach Dodgers |
| 1988 | San Antonio Missions |
| Position(s) | First baseman/third baseman |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1994–1995 | Cal State Northridge (asst.) |
| 1996–2002 | Cal State Northrdge |
| 2003–present | Fresno State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 667–466 |
| Tournaments | NCAA: 18–12 WAC: 27–4 MWC: 3–4 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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1996 WAC Championship |
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| Awards | |
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1998 Collegiate Baseball National Coach of the Year |
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1996 WAC Championship
2002 Big West Championship
2006 WAC Championship
2007 WAC Championship
2008 WAC Championship
2008 College World Series
1998 Collegiate Baseball National Coach of the Year
2002 Big West Coach of the Year
Michael Harold Batesole (born March 28, 1964) is the head baseball coach of the Fresno State Bulldogs baseball team. In 5 seasons as head coach, he has compiled a 360–246 record, as of the end of the 2012 season. He previously coached for 7 seasons at Cal State Northridge. His overall record stands at 616–404–1, as of the end of the 2012 season. In 2006 and 2007, his teams won back-to-back WAC championships in baseball. He led Fresno State to tournament appearances in 2006 and 2007, due to winning the conference tournament.
In 2008, he coached Fresno State to their first College World Series appearance in seventeen years by defeating #3 Arizona State, and then defeating #6 Rice University, #2 University of North Carolina to advance to the championship, and then defeating #8 University of Georgia in the final two games in a best two-out-of-three championship series winning 19–10 in the second game, and 6–1 in the third game to win Fresno State their first NCAA Men's Championship.
He also went to the NCAA tournament in 1996 and 2002 with Cal State Northridge. He has coached 55 professional baseball players. He went 256–158–1 at CS Northridge and posted the second most wins in school history.
The following is a list of Batesole'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
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