College of Charleston Cougars baseball

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Charleston Cougars
Baseball current event.svg 2023 College of Charleston Cougars baseball team
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Founded1991
University College of Charleston
Head coach Chad Holbrook (6th season)
Conference Colonial Athletic
Location Charleston, South Carolina
Home stadium CofC Baseball Stadium at Patriot's Point
(Capacity: 2,000)
Nickname Cougars
ColorsMaroon and white [1]
   
NCAA regional champions
2006, 2014
NCAA Tournament appearances
2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015
Conference tournament champions
SoCon: 2006
CAA: 2014
Regular season conference champions
SoCon: 2004, 2005, 2007, 2012
CAA: 2015, 2022
For information on all College of Charleston sports, see College of Charleston Cougars

The Charleston Cougars baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. [2] The team is a member of the Colonial Athletic Association, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at CofC Baseball Stadium at Patriot's Point in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The Cougars are currently coached by Chad Holbrook, who was previously the head coach at the University of South Carolina.

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History

The College of Charleston baseball team has been a member of NCAA Division I since 1991. The Cougars have won six regular season conference titles and two conference tournament championships, one in the Southern Conference (2006) and one in the Colonial Athletic Association (2014). The Cougars have appeared in the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament seven times, most recently in 2015. They have advanced to the Super Regional round of the NCAA Tournament twice (2006, 2014), accounting for their deepest postseason run. The Cougars swept the 2006 Lexington Regional and the 2014 Gainesville Regional, before falling to Georgia Tech and Texas Tech, respectively.

From 2009 until 2015, the Cougars were coached by Monte Lee, a former player for Charleston. During Lee's tenure at CofC, the Cougars went 276–145, qualifying for the NCAA Tournament in four of Lee's six seasons. Lee coached three players that were drafted in the first five rounds in the MLB Draft: Taylor Clarke (3rd RD, 2015), Carl Wise (4th RD, 2015) and Heath Hembree (5th RD, 2010), who reached the MLB in 2013. Lee left Charleston after the 2015 season to take the same position with the Clemson Tigers.

In 2017, Chad Holbrook was hired on as head coach after a four year stint with South Carolina. Chad was previously recruiter of the year and assistant coach of the year as an assistant coach with South Carolina lead the Gamecocks to the NCAA Super Regionals twice during his tenure as head coach. In 2022, the Cougars were the CAA regular season champions for the first time since 2015.

Charleston has produced 28 college All-Americans and 62 professional players, including Brett Gardner of the New York Yankees. From 2004 to 2015, the College of Charleston has the 13th best winning percentage in all of Division I baseball. [3] Oliver Marmol, the current manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, is a former Cougar baseball player.

Year-by-year results

Charleston's history since joining Division I in 1991. [4]

Cougars yearly records
YearOverall recordConference recordAccomplishments
199122–12–1Ind
199216–292–19 (TAAC)
199318–249–9 (TAAC)
199427–217–11 (TAAC)
199517–298–22 (TAAC)
199628–238–10 (TAAC)
199725–29–17–11 (TAAC)
199831–269–9 (TAAC)
199931–2419–10 (SoCon)
200028–28–114–15–1 (SoCon)
200124–2810–16 (SoCon)
200236–2219–11 (SoCon)
200331–2717–13 (SoCon)
200447–1625–5 (SoCon)SoCon Regular Season Champions, NCAA Regional
200548–1527–3 (SoCon)SoCon Regular Season Champions, NCAA Regional
200646–1720–7 (SoCon)SoCon Tournament Champions, NCAA Super Regional
200739–1920–7 (SoCon)SoCon Regular Season Champions
200839–2019–8 (SoCon)
200935–2217–13 (SoCon)
201044–1922–8 (SoCon)NCAA Regional
201139–2218–12 (SoCon)
201238–2221–9 (SoCon)SoCon Regular Season Champions, NCAA Regional
201331–2617–13 (SoCon)
201444–1915–6 (CAA)CAA Tournament Champions, NCAA Super Regional
201545–1521–3 (CAA)CAA Regular Season Champions, NCAA Regional
201631–25–112–12 (CAA)
201728–3113–11 (CAA)
201836-1915-8 (CAA)
201936-2116-8 (CAA)
202012-20-0 (CAA)Season cancelled
202127-2512-12 (CAA)
202237-1919-5 (CAA)CAA Regular Season Champions

NCAA tournament results

Charleston has appeared in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship seven times, most recently in 2015 when the Cougars lost in the Tallahassee Regional final to Florida State. Charleston's overall record in the NCAA Tournament is 14–14.

YearSeedRoundOpponentsResults
2004#3Baton Rouge Regional#2 Southern Mississippi
#4 Army
#2 Southern Mississippi
#1 LSU		L 6–5
W 2–1
W 7–3
L 11–3
2005#2Clemson Regional#3 Oral Roberts
#1 Clemson
#3 Oral Roberts		W 5–2
L 6–0
L 6–0
2006#2Lexington Regional#3 Notre Dame
#4 Ball State
#1 Kentucky		W 5–4
W 11–0
W 7–4
2006#2Atlanta Super Regional#1 Georgia TechL 5–0
L 12–3
2010#2Myrtle Beach Regional#3 NC State
#1 Coastal Carolina
#1 Coastal Carolina
#1 Coastal Carolina		W 9–6
W 16–6
L 8–7
L 11–10
2012#3Gainesville Regional#2 Georgia Tech
#4 Bethune-Cookman
#2 Georgia Tech		L 8–4
W 8–2
L 3–0
2014#4Gainesville Regional#1 Florida
#2 Long Beach State
#2 Long Beach State		W 3–2
W 6–3
W 4–2
2014#4Lubbock Super Regional#1 Texas TechL 1–0
L 1–0
2015#2Tallahassee Regional#3 Auburn
#1 Florida State
#3 Auburn
#1 Florida State		W 7–6
L 3–2
W 3–2
L 8–1

(Bold indicates furthest advancement.)

Major League Baseball

The College of Charleston has had 60 Major League Baseball Draft selections since the draft began in 1965. [5] In 2015, pitcher Taylor Clarke eclipsed outfielder Brett Gardner as the highest Charleston player ever drafted, as Clarke was the first pick of the third round (76th overall) which bested Gardner's 109th overall selection in the third round of 2005. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ College of Charleston Athletics Identity Standards (PDF). June 11, 2018. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  2. ↑ "College of Charleston Cougars". d1baseball.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-16. Retrieved 2014-01-15.
  3. ↑ "Charleston Baseball Record Book 2015" (PDF). CofCSports. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-13. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
  4. ↑ College of Charleston 2014 Baseball Reference Book. CofCSports.com. 2014.
  5. ↑ "MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from "College of Charleston (Charleston, SC)"". Baseball-Reference.com . Retrieved 2022-05-11.
  6. ↑ "Taylor Clarke Becomes @CofCBaseball's Highest-Ever Draft Pick". CofCSports.
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