Dave Serrano new baseball coach

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Dave Serrano Named Tennessee Baseball Head Coach University of Tennessee Athletics

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University of Tennessee announced the hiring of Cal State Fullerton head coach Dave Serrano as the 24th head coach of the Volunteer baseball program on Wednesday. He will be introduced at a press conference at 2 p.m. on Thursday in the MVP Club Room at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

"Dave is a proven winner and is a perfect fit as the head baseball coach at the University of Tennessee," said interim vice chancellor for athletics Joan Cronan. "He has taken two programs to the College World Series as a head coach, and we are confident that he is the right coach to lead our program to national prominence."

A veteran of seven College World Series and one of just 11 coaches to lead two different programs to Omaha, Serrano arrives at Rocky Top with a career record of 289-139-1 (.675) in seven seasons as a Division I head coach. After leading UC Irvine to the 2007 CWS in his third year at the helm of the Anteaters, he moved on to Cal State Fullerton where he averaged 43.75 wins per season in his four campaigns with the Titans, including an appearance in Omaha in 2009.

Serrano, 46, returns to the site of his first Division I job, as he served two seasons as an assistant coach at Tennessee from 1995-96, following seven years at Cerritos Junior College. His first taste of Omaha came as a Volunteer, as he helped lead a Big Orange squad featuring all-time UT greats Todd Helton and R.A. Dickey to the College World Series for the first time in over four decades in 1995. During Serrano's first stint in Knoxville, Tennessee posted an impressive 97-36 (.729) record, including a school-record 54 wins in 1995.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

ANOTHER NEW CORCH FOR TENNESSEE????????????

 

[UTVolCountry]

ANOTHER NEW CORCH FOR TENNESSEE????????????

 

[UTVolCountry]

Maybe he can bring the baesball program back to life.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

I still don't know what that dadburn thing is.