The Oklahoma Sooners baseball program is a college baseball team that represents the University of Oklahoma. The team has had eleven head coaches since organized baseball began 1898. The current head coach is Skip Johnson who was hired in 2018.
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 has the lowest winning percentage.
Key
| Overall OW | Wins | OL | Losses | OT | Ties | O% | Winning percentage | | Conference CW | Wins | CL | Losses | CT | Ties | C% | Winning percentage | | Postseason[A 2] PA | Total Appearances[A 3] | PW | Total Wins | PL | Total Losses | WA | College World Series appearances[A 4] | WW | College World Series wins | WL | College World Series losses | | Championships DC | Division regular season | CC | Conference regular season | CT | Conference tournament[A 5] | |
Coaches
List of head baseball coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards *Statistics correct as of the end of the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball season # | Name | Term[A 6] | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PA | PW | PL | WA | WW | WL | DCs | CCs | CTs | NCs | Awards[A 7] |
1 | No coach | 1898–1900, 1904–05 | 24 | 10 | 13 | 1 | .438 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
2 | Bennie Owen | 1906–1922 | 250 | 142 | 104 | 4 | .576 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
3 | Bill Owen | 1923–1926 | 55 | 42 | 13 | 0 | .764 | 18 | 5 | 0 | .783 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 – 1925, 1926 | — | — | — |
4 | Lawrence Haskell | 1927–1941 | 252 | 176 | 74 | 2 | .702 | 89 | 29 | 1 | .752 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8 – 1927, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1940 | — | — | — |
5 | Jack Baer | 1942–1967 | 531 | 281 | 250 | 0 | .529 | 192 | 136 | 0 | .585 | 5 | | | 1 | | | — | 6 – 1946, 1947, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1956 | — | 1 – 1951 | National (1951) |
6 | Enos Semore | 1968–1989 | 1222 | 851 | 370 | 1 | .697 | 297 | 129 | 0 | .697 | | | | 5 | | | — | 5 – 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1986 | 2 – 1977, 1979 | — | — |
7 | Stan Meek | 1990 | 57 | 31 | 26 | 0 | .544 | 9 | 15 | 0 | .375 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
8 | Larry Cochell | 1991–2005 | 848 | 511 | 336 | 1 | .603 | 223 | 163 | 1 | .578 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 – 1997 | 1 – 1994 | National (1994) |
9 | Sunny Golloway | 2005–2013 | 510 | 334 | 175 | 1 | .656 | 61 | 55 | 1 | .526 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |
10 | Pete Hughes | 2014–2017 | 236 | 128 | 107 | 1 | .544 | 44 | 51 | 1 | .464 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
11 | Skip Johnson | 2018–present | 119 | 71 | 48 | 0 | .597 | 25 | 23 | 0 | .521 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Notes
- ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Oklahoma Sooners. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is counted only once.
- ^ Postseason play involving the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.
- ^ Postseason appearances include seasons with NCAA Division I Baseball Championship bids since the tournament began in 1947.
- ^ College World Series appearances include seasons with CWS bids since the tournament began in 1947.
- ^ The Big Eight Conference began a baseball tournament in 1976. The Big 12 Conference began a baseball tournament in 1997.
- ^ Oklahoma did not sponsor a baseball team in 1901–1903, 1908, 1917 and 1943–1945.
- ^ National, regional and conference coach of the year awards.
References
- General
- "All-Time Coaches". University of Oklahoma Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Archived from the original on 2009-11-23. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- "2009 Baseball Media Guide" (PDF). University of Oklahoma Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Archived from the original on 2009-02-22. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- "2009 Box Scores". University of Oklahoma Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Archived from the original on 2009-11-23. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
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- Established: 1890
- Endowment: $1.65 billion
- Students: 30,303
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