UT Arlington Mavericks baseball

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UT Arlington Mavericks
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Founded1969
University University of Texas at Arlington
Head coach Clay Van Hook (2nd season)
Conference WAC
Location Arlington, Texas
Home stadium Clay Gould Ballpark
(Capacity: 1,600)
Nickname Mavericks
ColorsRoyal blue, white, and orange [1]
     
NCAA Tournament appearances
1990, 1992, 2001, 2006, 2012
Conference tournament champions
Southland: 2001, 2006, 2012
Regular season conference champions
Sunbelt: 2017 (West Division)
WAC: 2013
Southland: 1990, 1992

The UT Arlington Mavericks baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, Texas, United States. [2] The team is a member of the Western Athletic Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at Clay Gould Ballpark in Arlington, Texas. The Mavericks are coached by Clay Van Hook.

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History

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Carlisle Military Academy baseball team, 1910 or 1911
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UTA baseball team, circa 1970s
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UTA hosting the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns in 2019

The UTA Mavericks began intercollegiate baseball in 1969 as the Athletic Department moved from the College Division to the University level, which required schools to sponsor more sports than UTA did at that time. As the only founding member of the Southland Conference to not offer the sport, UTA immediately had a conference home.

Tom Beasley became UTA's first head coach. After two losing seasons, Fred Mathews Took the helm and guided the Mavericks to their first winning season and a second-place finish in the SLC. He coached for two more seasons before a legend would guide the Mavericks for the next 26 seasons.

Butch McBroom amassed 756 wins, which is by far the most for any Maverick coach and still second all-time in the Southland. His teams won two Conference Championships, were runners-up six times and participated in two NCAA tournaments. He occasionally landed in national rankings as well. His players earned four pitcher-of the-year awards, one player of-the-year, one hitter-of-the-year and three newcomer-of-the-year while he, himself, won four coach-of-the-year honors.

In 1994, the Mavericks finished four games under .500, breaking a streak of 14-straight winning seasons. It marked the first of six-consecutive sub-.500 years, until he retired after the 1999 season.

Clay Gould was hired as the fourth coach in Maverick history. He played for the Mavericks in the early 1990s during their two NCAA tournament runs and was named the 1993 Southland Conference Player-of-the-Year. His first year was a rebuilding year, but in 2001, UTA won their first Southland Conference tournament and advanced to the NCAA tournament.

Against the Houston Cougars, Craig Martin, who retired as UTA's all-time hits leader and is still currently UTA's all-time doubles leader, hit a late-inning home run to win UTA's first NCAA tournament game. UTA's two losses were to host Rice University, which advanced to the Super Regional.

During the season, Coach Gould was battling colon cancer, and he died shortly after the season ended.

Jeff Curtis succeeded Coach Gould in 2002 and in 2006, UTA won their second Southland Conference tournament.

Former Head coach Darin Thomas, who was an assistant coach under Clay Gould and associate head coach with Jeff Curtis, officially took the reins in 2008. In 2012, his team won the Southland Conference Tournament to advance to an NCAA regional for the fifth time in program history. In 2013, as the team played their first and last season in the Western Athletic Conference, the team was co-champions with California State University-Bakersfield. In 2017, the team won a program record 20 conference games en route to a West Division championship in the Sun Belt.

Since 2013, the baseball team annually plays one game against a Division I opponent in Globe Life Park. [3]

Season-by-season results

Statistics overview
SeasonCoachOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Southland Conference (1969–2012)
1969Beasley 6–160–85th
1970Beasley 10–183–95th
Tom Beasley:16–34 (.320)3–17 (.150)
1971Mathews 22–128–42nd
1972Mathews 18–258–94th
1973Mathews 20–177–74th
Fred Mathews:60–54 (.526)23–20 (.535)
1974McBroom 23–283–126th
1975McBroom 22–276–94th
1976McBroom 29–217–8T–3rd
1977McBroom 14–394–106th
1978McBroom 34–27–19–114th
1979McBroom 21–287–135th
1980McBroom 35–2510–53rd
1981McBroom 38–239–42nd
1982McBroom 37–204–85th
1983McBroom 30–238–8T–2nd
1984McBroom 30–2010–22nd
1985McBroom 35–268–94th
1986McBroom 30–2612–52nd
1987McBroom 32–26
1988McBroom 33–2210–93rd
1989McBroom 33–2311–72nd
1990McBroom 31–3011–51st NCAA Central Regional, L 0–2
1991McBroom 32–228–63rd
1992McBroom 40–1516–51st NCAA Central Regional, L 0–2
1993McBroom 34–2017–62ndSouthland Tournament, L 1–2
1994McBroom 25–2913–115th
1995McBroom 27–3214–104thSouthland Tournament, L 1–2
1996McBroom 23–3513–176thSouthland Tournament, L 0–2
1997McBroom 22–3512–175thSouthland Tournament, L 1–2
1998McBroom 20–299–137th
1999McBroom 26–3514–135thSouthland Tournament, L 3–2
Butch McBroom:756–686–1 (.524)245–223 (.524)
2000Gould 24–309–189th
2001Gould 39–2515–11T–3rdSouthland Tournament, W 4–0
NCAA Houston Regional, L 1–2
Clay Gould:63–55 (.534)24–29 (.453)
2002Curtis 29–2915–114thSouthland Tournament, L 0–2
2003Curtis 37–2518–93rdSouthland Tournament, L 4–2
2004Curtis 32–2614–134thSouthland Tournament, L 1–2
2005Curtis 26–3214–134thSouthland Tournament, L 1–2
2006Curtis 29–3616–125thSouthland Tournament, W 4–1
NCAA Austin Regional, L 0–2
2007Curtis 13–404–2612th
Jeff Curtis:166–188 (.469)111–127 (.466)
2008Thomas 26–3116–146thSouthland Tournament, L 0–2
2009Thomas 30–2619–135thSouthland Tournament, L 1–2
2010Thomas 29–3119–145thSouthland Tournament, L 2–2
2011Thomas 27–2915–18T–7th
2012Thomas 36–2519–14T–3rd Southland tournament, W 4–0
NCAA Waco Regional, L 0–2
Western Athletic Conference (2013)
2013Thomas 31–2718–9T–1st WAC tournament, L 1–2
Sun Belt Conference (2014–2022)
2014Thomas 30–2519–112nd SBC tournament, L 3–1
2015Thomas 24–3214–167th SBC tournament, L 1–2
2016Thomas 30–2815–157th SBC tournament, L 1–2
2017Thomas 30–2520–103rd, 1st in West Division SBC tournament, L 0–1
2018Thomas 22-3511-19t8th, t4th in West Division SBC tournament, L 1–2
2019Thomas 32–2617–124th, 3rd in West Division SBC tournament, L 1–2
2020 Thomas 12–40–0(Season cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic)
2021 Thomas 27–3013–114th, 2nd in West Division
2022 Thomas 15–397–2311th
Darin Thomas:401–414 (.492)222–199 (.527)
Total:1,462–1,430–1 (.506)

      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

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  2. ↑ "UT Arlington Mavericks". d1baseball.com. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  3. ↑ "UT Arlington Official Athletic Site - Baseball". www.utamavs.com. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14.
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