Bill Currier (baseball)

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Bill Currier
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Fairfield
Conference MAAC
Record356–289–0 (.552)
Biographical details
Born (1960-01-27) January 27, 1960 (age 64)
Essex Junction, Vermont, U.S.
Playing career
1979–1981 Vermont
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1983–1984 Vermont (assistant)
1985–1986 Western Carolina (assistant)
1987 Mitchell JC
1988–2009Vermont
2010 Tennessee (assistant)
2011 Fairfield (assistant)
2012–presentFairfield
Head coaching record
Overall842–780–2 (.519)
TournamentsNCAA: 2–4
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
2 America East (2003, 2006)
4 MAAC (2016, 2021, 2023, 2024)
Awards
Coach of the Year
3x America East (2002, 2003, 2006)
3x MAAC (2012, 2016, 2021)

Willard F. Currier is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Fairfield Stags baseball team. He was named to that position prior to the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball season. He was previously the head coach at Vermont (its winningest ever) before the university cut the baseball program after the 2009 season. [1]

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Playing career

Currier played at Vermont under Jack Leggett from 1979 through 1981. He was drafted in the sixth round of the 1981 MLB Draft by the Philadelphia Phillies. He played three seasons in the Phillies organization in Class A.

Coaching career

He returned to Vermont as an assistant coach and completed his degree in 1984. He then assisted Leggett at Western Carolina before earning his first head coaching job at Mitchell College, then a junior college. In 1988, Currier succeeded Mike Stone as head coach at Vermont. Currier would coach the Catamounts for 22 seasons, compiling a 486–470 record prior to the program's end in 2009. He was named America East Coach of the Year three times. He then served the 2010 season at Tennessee before being named head coach in waiting at Fairfield for the 2011 season and being elevated to the top job in 2012. [2] [3] [4] [5]

At Fairfield, Currier was named the MAAC Coach of the Year in 2012, his first season as the Stags' head coach. That year, the team went 14–10 in MAAC play and reached the playoffs for the first time since 2000. Senior shortstop Larry Cornelia and sophomore outfielder Ryan Plourde were both all-conference selections, giving Fairfield multiple all-league honorees for the first time since 2008. In 2014, Fairfield went 32-24 (15-8 MAAC), finishing third in the program's first 30-win season. Plourde, Jake Salpietro, and EJ Ashworth were named to the All-MAAC First Team. The Stags won their first two games in the MAAC Tournament, defeating #6 seed Manhattan and #2 Siena before losses to top-seeded Canisius and Siena knocked them out of the tournament. [6] [7]

Head coaching record

Below is a table of Currier's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach. [8] [9] [10] [11]

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Vermont Catamounts (Eastern College Athletic Conference)(1988–1989)
1988 Vermont 10–215–95th
1989 Vermont 11–194–116th
:9–20–0 (.310)
Vermont Catamounts (North Atlantic/America East [lower-alpha 1] )(1990–2009)
1990 Vermont 18–135–94th
1991 Vermont 18–146–83rd
1992 Vermont 28–1313–93rdECAC Tournament
1993 Vermont 25–1815–134th North Atlantic tournament [lower-alpha 2]
1994 Vermont 16–2210–136th North Atlantic tournament [lower-alpha 2]
1995 Vermont 27–1815–93rd North Atlantic tournament
1996 Vermont 12–21–18–127th
1997 Vermont 27–1915–93rd America East tournament
1998 Vermont 26–2115–123rd America East tournament
1999 Vermont 21–2610–186th
2000 Vermont 28–2216–103rd America East tournament
2001 Vermont 23–2210–17T–6th
2002 Vermont 27–2214–82nd America East tournament
2003 Vermont 32–1417–51st America East tournament
2004 Vermont 18–2610–115th
2005 Vermont 29–1914–7T–2nd America East tournament
2006 Vermont 19–3416–81st America East tournament
2007 Vermont 21–29–110–135th
2008 Vermont 27–2412–114th America East tournament
2009 Vermont 23–3314–10T–3rd America East tournament
Vermont:486–491–2 (.497)245–213–0 (.535)
Fairfield Stags (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference)(2012–present)
2012 Fairfield 27–2814–103rd MAAC tournament
2013 Fairfield 20–2911–13T–5th
2014 Fairfield 32–2415–83rd MAAC tournament
2015 Fairfield 14–287–118th
2016 Fairfield 32–2421–71st NCAA Regional
2017 Fairfield 31–2417–71st MAAC tournament
2018 Fairfield 22–299–149th
2019 Fairfield 35–2515–9T-3rd
2020 Fairfield 2–90–0Season canceled due to COVID-19
2021 Fairfield 39–533–11st NCAA Regional
2022 Fairfield 31–2118–51st MAAC tournament
2023 Fairfield 37–1816–51st MAAC tournament
2024 Fairfield 34–2420–4T-1st MAAC tournament
Fairfield:356–289–0 (.552)196–94–0 (.676)
Total:842–780–2 (.519)

      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

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The America East was known as the North Atlantic Conference from 1990 to 1996.
  2. 1 2 In this season, all of the North Atlantic's members qualified for the postseason.

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