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List of Oklahoma Sooners head baseball coaches

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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

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Postseason play involving the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.
  3. ^ Postseason appearances include seasons with NCAA Division I Baseball Championship bids since the tournament began in 1947.
  4. ^ College World Series appearances include seasons with CWS bids since the tournament began in 1947.
  5. ^ The Big Eight Conference began a baseball tournament in 1976. The Big 12 Conference began a baseball tournament in 1997.
  6. ^ Oklahoma did not sponsor a baseball team in 1901–1903, 1908, 1917 and 1943–1945.
  7. ^ 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 2009-11-09. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
  • "2009 Baseball Media Guide" (PDF). University of Oklahoma Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Archived from the original on 2009-11-09. 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.