USD Baseball 2010

Assistant Coach TYLER KINCAID First Season as Assistant Coach

Tyler Kincaid enters his first season as an assistant coach with the Toreros. Kincaid will serve as USD's pitching coach and help assist head coach Rich Hill with all aspects of the game. Kincaid comes to the Toreros from nearby Palomar College, where he had served as the pitching coach from 2005-09. In 2009, Palomar finished the season with an overall record of 36-

13-1, winning the Pacific Coast Conference Championship and setting a new school record for wins. Kincaid's pitching staff ranked No. 1 in California with a team ERA of 2.60. During his tenure at Palomar, the Comets twice won the conference title, advanced to the playoffs three times, and led the conference in ERA three times. Kincaid coached two California Community College All– Americans, one first-team All-Southern California selection, one sec– ond-team All-State honoree, and six first-team All-Pacific Coast Con– ference selections. Kincaid helped develop and move on twenty-six pitchers to four year institutions, of which nine moved on to Division I, and three were taken in the MLB amateur draft. Prior to working at Palomar College, Kincaid had success at San Francisco State as the pitching coach from 2002-2005, where he helped lead the 2004 Gator pitching staff to its first 30-win season since 1995, the lowest team ERA since 1991 at 4.99, and its first back-to-back winning seasons since the 1990-91 seasons. He has also served as the pitching coach with the Chatham A's baseball team in the prestigious Cape Cod League for five summers. In the summers of 2005 and 2006, he helped guide the A's pitching staff to the second low- est ERA in the league, while also giving up the fewest number of hits. The A's advanced to the Cape Cod playoffs in three of the five years Kincaid coached them and he coached two of the Most Outstanding Pitcher award winners of the CBBL in current Major Leaguer Andrew Miller (2005) from North Carolina and former USC pitcher Tom Milone (2007) . Eleven of his pitchers were CCBL All Star selections. Kincaid earned his bachelor's degree in Kinesiology- Physical Education from San Francisco State in 2001. And he holds a master degree in Secondary Education from San Francisco State that he earned in 2005.

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