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Ritch Price

Ritch Price
Sport(s) Baseball
Current position
Title Head Coach
Team Kansas
Conference Big 12
Record 435–402–3
Annual salary $280,000
Biographical details
Alma mater Willamette '79
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1995–2002 Cal Poly
2003–present Kansas
Head coaching record
Overall 652–630–4
Tournaments Big 12: 9–15
NCAA: 4–6

Ritch Price is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks baseball team. He has held that position since prior to the 2003 season.

Price took over as head coach at Cal Poly for the 1995 season, which was to be the Mustangs first at the Division I level. In his second season, he led the team to a winning record. He accepted the head coaching position at Kansas after the 2002 season, and has led the Jayhawks to two NCAA Tournament berths and their first Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament title in 2006. Kansas had made only two NCAA appearances prior to Price's arrival.

The table below shows Ritch Price's record as a head coach at the Division I level.

      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

Ritch Price has three sons, all of whom have played for him at Kansas. His eldest, Ritchie Price, was head coach at South Dakota State from 2008 to 2011, before returning to Kansas to again work on his father's staff.Baseball America believes that the Prices were the first father–son duo to serve as head coach of two Division I programs at the same time.


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