Chad Oxendine
Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | Longwood |
Conference | Big South |
Record | 20–33 (.377) |
Biographical details | |
Born | Lumberton, North Carolina | June 10, 1981
Playing career | |
2001–2004 | Coastal Carolina |
Position(s) | Catcher |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2006 | UNC Wilmington (V) |
2007 | Alabama (V) |
2008–2010 | Richmond (Asst.) |
2011 | Myrtle Beach Pelicans (H) |
2012 | Coastal Carolina (V) |
2015–2017 | Longwood (Asst.) |
2022–present | Longwood |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
2018–2020 | Coastal Carolina (DBO) |
2021 | Coastal Carolina (DPD) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 20–33 (.377) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Awards | |
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Chad Oxendine (born June 10, 1981) is an American baseball coach and former catcher who is the current the head baseball coach of the Longwood Lancers. He played college baseball at Coastal Carolina for head coach Gary Gilmore from 2001 to 2004.
Playing career
Oxendine was a catcher at Coastal Carolina from 2001 to 2004, where he was a co-captain his junior and senior seasons, as well as a second-team All-Big South Conference player as a senior. He signed with the Chicago White Sox after college, spending one season with the Bristol White Sox of the Appalachian League before turning to coaching.
Coaching career
Oxendine began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at UNC Wilmington and later Alabama. He was named a full-time assistant at Richmond in July 2007 and spent three seasons with the program before joining the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, a single-A baseball team that was a part of the Texas Rangers system at the time, as their hitting coach in 2011.[1] He spent one season at his alma mater Coastal Carolina as a volunteer assistant, and did not coach college baseball until he was named an assistant coach at Longwood in 2015.
Oxendine returned to Coastal Carolina in 2017 to serve as the program's director of baseball operations. He was promoted to director of player development in 2020, also adding operations and data analytics duties.
Oxendine was named head coach at Longwood on June 28, 2021.[2]
Head coaching record
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Longwood Lancers (Big South Conference) (2022–present) | |||||||||
2022 | Longwood | 20–33 | 10–14 | 8th | |||||
Longwood: | 20–33 (.377) | 10–14 (.417) | |||||||
Total: | 20–33 (.377) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
- ^ "Chad Oxendine Named Assistant Baseball Coach". University of Richmond Athletics. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ "Former Lancer Assistant & Coastal Standout Oxendine Named Head Coach". Longwood University Athletics. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
External links
- Chad Oxendine on Twitter
- Longwood Lancers profile
- Chad Oxendine Minor League Statistics at Baseball-Reference.com
- Articles with short description
- Twitter username not in Wikidata
- 1981 births
- Living people
- People from Lumberton, North Carolina
- Baseball players from North Carolina
- Baseball coaches from North Carolina
- Baseball catchers
- Coastal Carolina Chanticleers baseball players
- Bristol White Sox players
- UNC Wilmington Seahawks baseball coaches
- Alabama Crimson Tide baseball coaches
- Richmond Spiders baseball coaches
- Coastal Carolina Chanticleers baseball coaches
- Longwood Lancers baseball coaches
- Myrtle Beach Pelicans players