Ryan Shotzberger

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Ryan Shotzberger
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Incarnate Word
Conference Southland
Record79–92
Biographical details
Born (1982-04-12) April 12, 1982 (age 41)
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
Playing career
2001–2004 McDaniel College
Position(s) Shortstop
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2005 Cecil College (assistant)
2006 Duke (assistant)
2007–2011 TCU (assistant)
2012–2014,
2018–2019
Houston (assistant)
2020–present Incarnate Word
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2015–2017Houston (DPD)
Head coaching record
Overall79–92
TournamentsSouthland: 2–2
NCAA: 0–0

Ryan Shotzberger (April 12, 1982) is an American college baseball coach and former shortstop. He is the head baseball coach at the University of the Incarnate Word. Shotzberger played college baseball at McDaniel College from 2001 to 2004 for coach Dave Seibert. He served as the head assistant at the University of Houston from 2012 to 2019.

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Playing career

Shotzberger attended Wilmington Friends School in Wilmington, Delaware. [1] He was a member of the schools varsity baseball team. He then enrolled at McDaniel College, to play college baseball for the McDaniel Green Terror baseball team. He was named First Team All-Centennial Conference in 2003 and 2004. [2]

Coaching career

Shotzberger began his coaching career in 2005 as an assistant coach at Cecil College. [3] He was named an assistant coach at Duke for the 2006 season. On August 22, 2006, he was named an assistant at TCU. [4] While at TCU, Shotzberger was an assistant with Todd Whitting, who would add Shotzberger to his coaching staff at the University of Houston on August 11, 2011. [5] Following the 2014 season, he stepped back into a Director of Player Development role. In 2018, he returned to the field as a coach.

On June 24, 2019, Shotzberger was named the 5th coach in program history for the Incarnate Word Cardinals baseball program. [6]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Incarnate Word Cardinals (Southland Conference)(2020–present)
2020 Incarnate Word 9–71–2Season canceled due to COVID-19
2021 Incarnate Word 21–2817–2311th
2022 Incarnate Word 21–319–158th
2023 Incarnate Word 28–2614–102nd Southland Tournament
Incarnate Word:79–9241–50
Total:79–92

      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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