George Horton (baseball coach)

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George Horton
Title	Head coach
College	University of Oregon
Sport	College Baseball
Team record	452-187-1
Career highlights
Championships
2004 College World Series
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1976-1977 1978-1980 1980-1985 1985-1990 1990-1996 1996-2007 2007-present	Cerritos College (Asst.) Los Angeles Valley College (Asst.) Cerritos College (Asst.) Cerritos College (Head Coach) Cal State Fullerton (Asst.) Cal State Fullerton (Head Coach) University of Oregon (Head Coach)

George Horton (born October 5, 1953) is the head baseball coach of the Oregon Ducks baseball team.

1 Playing career
2 Coaching career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Playing career

Horton played on the Cerritos College baseball team in 1972 and 1973. Horton then played two seasons under head coach Augie Garrido at Cal State Fullerton in 1975 and 1976. He was on the Fullerton team that made the schools first appearance in the College World Series in 1975.

[edit] Coaching career

He began his coaching career the same place he began his collegiate playing career, Cerritos College. He coached there for 2 season before moving onto Los Angeles Valley College. From there he went back to Cerritos College as an assistant before eventually becoming the head coach. He was later hired by his former coach, Augie Garrido, to be an assistant at Cal State Fullerton. When Garrido left in 1996, Horton was hired to replace him.

In 2004, Horton would face off against his old boss in the 2004 College World Series championship series. The Fullerton Titans won the series and the national championship.

In September 2007, Horton was named the head coach of the University of Oregon, which reinstated its baseball program in 2007 after a 26-year span as a club sport.^[1]