List of Oklahoma Sooners head baseball coaches

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The Oklahoma Sooners baseball program is a college baseball team that represents the University of Oklahoma. The team has had eight head coaches since organized baseball began 1898 with the nickname Sooners. The Sooners have played in more than 3,400 games during its 110 seasons. In those seasons, five coaches have won conference championships with the Sooners: Bill Owen, Lawrence Haskell, Jack Baer, Enos Semore and Larry Cochell. Two coaches have won national championships: Baer and Cochell. Semore is the all-time leader in games coached, years coached and wins. Owen is the overall leader in winning percentage. Baer is, in terms of winning percentage, the worst coach the Sooners have had. Of the eight head coaches, two have received National Coach of the Year honors. The current head coach is Sunny Golloway who was hired in July 2005.[1]

Key

Coaches

Statistics correct as of the end of the 2009 college baseball season.
# Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% CCs NCs National awards
1 Bennie Owen 1906–1922 250 142 104 4 .581 — — — — — — —
2 Bill Owen 1923–1926 55 42 13 0 .765 18 5 0 0.783 2 – 1925*, 1926* — —
3 Lawrence Haskell 1927–1941 252 176 74 2 .702 89 29 1 0.752 8 – 1927*, 1930*, 1931*, 1933*, 1935*, 1936*, 1939*, 1940* — —
4 Jack Baer 1942–1967 531 281 250 0 .529 192 136 0 0.585 6 – 1946*, 1947*, 1950*, 1953*, 1955*, 1956* 1 – 1951 National Coach of the Year (1951)
5 Enos Semore 1968–1989 1222 851 370 1 .697 297 129 0 0.697 7 – 1972*, 1973*, 1974*, 1975*, 1977*^, 1979^, 1986* — —
6 Stan Meek 1990 57 31 26 0 .544 9 15 0 0.375 — — —
7 Larry Cochell 1991–2005 848 511 336 1 .603 223 163 1 0.578 1 – 1997^ 1 – 1994 National Coach of the Year (1994)
8 Sunny Golloway 2005–present 269 170 98 1 .634 61 55 1 0.526 — — —

Notes

  1. ↑ A running total of the number of coaches of the Sooners. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is counted only once.

References

General
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