Sport(s) | Baseball |
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Current position | |
Title | Head Coach |
Team | Texas State |
Conference | Sun Belt |
Record | 507–388 |
Playing career | |
1985–1988 | Texas |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1988–1991 | Texas (asst.) |
1991–1994 | Arkansas State (asst.) |
1995–1998 | Northeast Texas |
1999 | Blinn |
2000–Present | Texas State |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Southland Tournament: 2000, 2011 Southland Conference: 2009, 2010, 2011 |
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Awards | |
Southland Conference Coach of the Year: 2009, 2011 |
Ty Harrington is the current head baseball coach at Texas State. He has held that position since the beginning of the 2000 season. Harrington has led the Bobcats to three NCAA Tournament appearances, two Southland Conference Baseball Tournament championships, and three Southland Conference baseball regular season championships. Harrington is the winningest coach in program history. After one year in the Western Athletic Conference, Texas State begins competition in the Sun Belt Conference in the 2014 NCAA Division I baseball season.
Harrington played for Texas, lettering twice. He was a member of three Longhorn teams that advanced to the College World Series, serving as a captain of the 1987 team.
Following his playing career, Harrington became a student coach and graduate assistant coach at Texas. He then became an assistant at Arkansas State. During his tenure, the team established many school records, won the Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament and made an NCAA appearance. He then served as head coach at a pair of Texas junior colleges, the first of which was Northeast Texas Community College from 1995 to 1998, where he claimed the 1996 NJCAA championship and Coach of the Year awards. Harrington then coached Blinn College for one season before taking over at Texas State.