Scott Stricklin (baseball coach)

Scott Stricklin

Stricklin in 2014
Sport(s)	Baseball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Georgia
Conference	Southeastern Conference
Record	52–57–1 (.477)
Biographical details
Born	February 17, 1972 Athens, Ohio, United States
Alma mater	Kent State University
Playing career
1991–1993	Kent State Golden Flashes
1993	Elizabethton Twins
1993–1994	Fort Wayne Wizards
1994	Nashville Xpress
1994	Salt Lake Buzz
1995	Fort Myers Miracle
1996	Greenville Braves
1997	St. Petersburg Devil Rays
Position(s)	Catcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1998–1999	Georgia Tech (vol. asst.)
2000–2001	Vanderbilt (asst.)
2002–2004	Georgia Tech (asst.)
2005–2013	Kent State
2014–present	Georgia
Head coaching record
Overall	402–245–1 (.621)
Tournaments	NCAA: 9–11
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
7 Mid-American Conference East Division championships (2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) 5 Mid-American Conference Regular Season championships (2006, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013) 5 Mid-American Conference Tournament championships (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) 5 NCAA Regional appearances (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) 1 NCAA Super Regional appearance (2012) 1 College World Series appearance (2012)
Awards
1 CollegeBaseballInsider.com Co-National Coach of the Year Award (2012) 2 ABCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year Awards (2011, 2012) 3 Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year Awards (2006, 2011, 2012)

Scott Stricklin (born February 17, 1972) is an American college baseball coach, the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs baseball team since the start of the 2014 season. Stricklin was the head coach at Kent State from 2005–2013. Before serving as Kent State's head coach, Stricklin played for Kent State from 1991–1993 and played minor league baseball from 1993–1997. He began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant under former Kent State head coach Danny Hall at Georgia Tech from 1998–1999. In 2000–2001, he served as an assistant at Vanderbilt, and he returned to Georgia Tech as an assistant from 2002–2004.

As the head coach of Kent State, Scott Stricklin head coaching record was 350–188 (.651). Under him, Kent State won five Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament Championships, reaching the NCAA Regionals in each of those seasons. The team also reached one Super Regional, in 2012. After defeating Oregon in that Super Regional, the team advanced to the 2012 College World Series. Stricklin won three Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year Awards and one ABCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year Award.

Following Kent State's performance in the 2012 postseason, several news outlets, including the Detroit News, speculated that Michigan was interested in hiring Stricklin to replace former head coach Rich Maloney, whose contract was not extended at the end of the 2012 season. Stricklin later confirmed that Michigan had contacted him, but that he elected to stay at Kent State. Michigan instead hired then-Maryland head coach Erik Bakich.