Gregg Wallis

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Gregg Wallis
Gregg Wallis GCU (cropped).jpg
Wallis as GCU third-base coach
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Grand Canyon
Conference WAC
Record71–44 (.617)
Biographical details
Born (1982-12-18) December 18, 1982 (age 41)
Alma mater UC Irvine
Playing career
2002–2005 UC Irvine
Position(s) Infielder
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2006 UC Irvine (undergrad asst)
2008–2010 Cal State Fullerton (asst)
2011–2013 Tennessee (asst)
2014–2022 Grand Canyon (asst)
2022 Ohio State (asst)
2023–presentGrand Canyon
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2007 UC Irvine (ops)
Head coaching record
Overall71–44 (.617)
TournamentsNCAA: 0–0
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
  • 2x WAC regular season (2023, 2024)
Awards
  • 2x WAC Coach of the Year (2023, 2024)

Gregg Wallis (born December 18, 1982) is an American baseball coach and former infielder, who is the current head baseball coach of the Grand Canyon Antelopes. He played college baseball at UC Irvine under Dave Serrano. He held roles on college baseball coaching staffs at UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton, Tennessee, Grand Canyon and Ohio State before getting his first head coaching opportunity at GCU on July 8, 2022.

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High school and college

Wallis attended Chatsworth High School in Chatsworth, Calif. before playing his college baseball at UC Irvine from 2002 to 2005. [1]

Coaching career

In 2006, his UC Irvine head coach, Dave Serrano, retained Wallis as an undergraduate assistant coach. He was promoted to director of operations in 2007 and was part of a staff that reached the program's first College World Series. [2]

Wallis moved with Serrano to Cal State Fullerton in 2008, serving as an assistant coach. The Titans qualified for the NCAA Tournament in all three seasons Wallis was on staff, highlighted by a College World Series trip in 2009.

Wallis again followed Serrano to his next stop at Tennessee in 2011, spending three seasons as an assistant coach with the program. [3]

In 2014, Andy Stankiewicz hired Wallis as an assistant coach at Grand Canyon for the program's first season back at the Division I level. [4] Wallis was promoted to recruiting coordinator in 2016. [5]

Following the 2022 season, Bill Mosiello was hired as the new head coach at Ohio State and hired Wallis as his lead assistant and recruiting coordinator. [6]

Stankiewicz departed Grand Canyon for USC on July 3, 2022, [7] and Wallis was hired as Grand Canyon's head coach five days later. [1] Several coveted GCU players who had entered the transfer portal — including shortstop Jacob Wilson who was playing with USA Baseball's Collegiate National Team and 2022 Western Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year Daniel Avitia — announced their return to GCU within days of Wallis' hiring. [8]

In his first season as head coach, Wallis led Grand Canyon to its third consecutive WAC regular-season championship [9] and was named the WAC Coach of the Year. [10] He repeated both of these feats in his second season in 2024. [11]

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Grand Canyon Antelopes (Western Athletic Conference)(2023–present)
2023 Grand Canyon 37–2122–71st WAC Tournament
2024 Grand Canyon 34–2323–71st NCAA regional
Total:71–44 (.617)

      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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