Chad Oxendine

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Chad Oxendine
Current position
TitleAssociate Head coach
Team Coastal Carolina
Conference Big South
Biographical details
Born (1981-06-10) June 10, 1981 (age 43)
Lumberton, North Carolina
Playing career
2001–2004 Coastal Carolina
Position(s) Catcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2006 UNC Wilmington (V)
2007 Alabama (V)
2008–2010 Richmond (Asst.)
2011 Myrtle Beach Pelicans (H)
2012 Coastal Carolina (V)
2015–2017 Longwood (Asst.)
2022–2024Longwood
2025–presentCoastal Carolina (AHC)
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2018–2020 Coastal Carolina (DBO)
2021Coastal Carolina (DPD)
Head coaching record
Overall66–93 (.415)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards

Chad Oxendine (born June 10, 1981) is an American baseball coach and former catcher who is the currently the associate head baseball coach of the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers. He previously was the head coach of the Longwood Lancers. He played college baseball at Coastal Carolina for head coach Gary Gilmore from 2001 to 2004.

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Playing career

Oxendine was a catcher at Coastal Carolina from 2001 to 2004, where he was a co-captain his junior and senior seasons, as well as a second-team All-Big South Conference player as a senior. He signed with the Chicago White Sox after college, spending one season with the Bristol White Sox of the Appalachian League before turning to coaching.

Coaching career

Oxendine began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at UNC Wilmington and later Alabama. He was named a full-time assistant at Richmond in July 2007 and spent three seasons with the program before joining the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, a single-A baseball team that was a part of the Texas Rangers system at the time, as their hitting coach in 2011. [1] He spent one season at his alma mater Coastal Carolina as a volunteer assistant, and did not coach college baseball until he was named an assistant coach at Longwood in 2015.

Oxendine returned to Coastal Carolina in 2017 to serve as the program's director of baseball operations. He was promoted to director of player development in 2020, also adding operations and data analytics duties.

Oxendine was named head coach at Longwood on June 28, 2021. [2]

Oxendine returned home to his alma mater (Coastal Carolina) on June 11, 2024 to be the Associate Head Coach and Recruiting Coordinator under new Head Coach Kevin Schnall [3]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Longwood Lancers (Big South Conference)(2022–2024)
2022 Longwood 20–3310–148th
2023 Longwood 23–3111–169th
2024 Longwood 23–2910–14T–5th
Longwood:66–93 (.415)31–44 (.413)
Total:66–93 (.415)

      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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References

  1. "Chad Oxendine Named Assistant Baseball Coach". University of Richmond Athletics. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  2. "Former Lancer Assistant & Coastal Standout Oxendine Named Head Coach". Longwood University Athletics. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  3. https://goccusports.com/news/2024/6/11/baseball-oxendine-named-associate-head-coach-and-recruiting-coordinator.aspx