USD Baseball 2003

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2003 University of San Diego Baseball

The USO Coaching Staff

Assistant Coach Sean Kenny 5th-year Central Michigan '84

Sean Ken ny , USD 's pitching coach and recruiting coordinator, has been essential in the success of San Diego baseball since joining the coaching staff with Coach Hill four seasons ago . Kenny has helped the Toreros amass L 36 wins (an average of 34 per season) d uring hi s tenure at Alcala Park .

Kenny is now rn hi s fifth year directing the San Diego pitching staff. Kenny was a standout pitcher for three years at Eastern Michigan University, where he completed a Bachelor's degree in Eng li sh Li terature with a minor in coaching in 1997. Kenny was drafted by the Mets and played for three seasons in the New York system. He would later earn a Master's deg ree in Physical Education from Saint Mary's College. As a proven recruiter, Kenny overseas San Diego's recruiting efforts, bringing in and developing some of t he best arms in the college game. Ken ny directed a Torero p itching staff in 2002 that included the West Coast Conference Pitcher of the Year in Ricky Barrett , who was taken in the seventh round of the Major Leag ue Draft after earn ing Third Team All-American honors by Baseball America. No stranger to baseball in the W es t Coast Conference, Kenny began his coaching career as a volunteer ass istant at Saint Mary's College, where he worked with the Gaels pitching staff in 1996-97. I n L997-98 he served as pitching coach at Laney Commun ity College.

Assistant Coach Michael Kramer 1st-year Pepperdine '93

The University of San Diego baseball program was p leased to announce the addition of assisrant coach Michael Kramer thi s past off-season. Kramer , a 1999 Pepperdine graduate and four-year colleg iate player for the W aves, rerurns to the West Coast Conference after spend ing two seasons as an assistant at UNC Greensboro. As a college player, Kramer helped Pepperdine amass a 46-1 6 record during his senior year playing mostly as a

ca tcher. After graduating in 1999 he began hi s coaching career as an ass ista nt at Pepperd ine the fol lowing season. Kramer will take on the role of the Torero's second assisrant und er fifth- year head coach Ri ch Hill. H e wi ll serve as USD's first base coach and direct the efforts of San Diego's offense as the Toreros primary hitting coach.

Volunteer Assistant Coach Craig da Luz 1st-year Fresno State '98

The University of San Diego baseba ll program welcomed Craig da Luz to the coaching staff as a volunteer assistant in 200 _'.3. Craig da Lu z played four years at Fresno State Un iversity , where he completed a Bachelor's Deg ree 111 Phys ical Education in l 998. Craig was drafted by the Tigers and played for three seasons in the Detroit sys tem . After hi s playing career, da Luz served as an associate scout for the Colorado Rock ies and as an assistant coach at hi s Alma Mater, St. Augustine Hig h School in San Di ego.

Craig J a Luz currently teaches Physica l Eductation at local St. Columba School.