07-12-2016, 11:53 AM
I'm really liking the hires of Travis Jewett (Tulane) and Greg Lovelady (UCF).
Lovelady's roots are in Florida. He's a Miami native and later played for the hometown Hurricanes. He was a starting catcher for their 1999 and 2001 national championship teams, the latter of which was a team captain. He later returned to Omaha as an assistant coach with Miami in 2003 and 2004.
Hired by Rob Cooper to join the Wright State staff in 2005, Lovelady was elevated to an associate head coach role a couple years later in 2007. When Cooper was hired at Penn State following the 2013 season, Wright State promoted Lovelady who took the program to even greater heights, posting a 124-56 record in three seasons while dominating the Horizon League. Wright State won a school-record 43 and 46 games the past two seasons and came just short both years of advancing to an NCAA Super Regional as the runner-up of the 2015 Champaign and 2016 Louisville regionals.
Lovelady was the 2016 ABCA/Diamond Mideast Region and Horizon League Coach of the Year. He also won league Coach of the Year honors in 2014.
Full article here:
https://ucf.n.rivals.com/news/the-wright...ball-coach
Lovelady's roots are in Florida. He's a Miami native and later played for the hometown Hurricanes. He was a starting catcher for their 1999 and 2001 national championship teams, the latter of which was a team captain. He later returned to Omaha as an assistant coach with Miami in 2003 and 2004.
Hired by Rob Cooper to join the Wright State staff in 2005, Lovelady was elevated to an associate head coach role a couple years later in 2007. When Cooper was hired at Penn State following the 2013 season, Wright State promoted Lovelady who took the program to even greater heights, posting a 124-56 record in three seasons while dominating the Horizon League. Wright State won a school-record 43 and 46 games the past two seasons and came just short both years of advancing to an NCAA Super Regional as the runner-up of the 2015 Champaign and 2016 Louisville regionals.
Lovelady was the 2016 ABCA/Diamond Mideast Region and Horizon League Coach of the Year. He also won league Coach of the Year honors in 2014.
Full article here:
https://ucf.n.rivals.com/news/the-wright...ball-coach
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