Mike Sansing

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Mike Sansing
Sport(s) Baseball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Kennesaw State
Conference Atlantic Sun Conference
Playing career
Gordon (GA)
West Georgia
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985–1986
1987–1988
1989–1991
1992–Present		 West Georgia (Asst.)
Southern Poly (Asst.)
Shorter (GA)
Kennesaw State

Mike Sansing is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Kennesaw State Owls baseball team. He was named to that position prior to the 1992 season, when Kennesaw State was an NAIA team. He led the Owls as they joined the NCAA's Division II in 1994, and in 2005 began the process to elevate the program to Division I, completed for the 2010 season.[1]

Sansing played at Gordon College and West Georgia, being named all-conference all four years, and team MVP honors three times. He began his coaching career with the Wolves in 1985. He served two seasons as an assistant, then two seasons at Southern Poly before his first head coaching position at Shorter. In his final year with the Hawks, he led the team to the 1991 conference title. He then moved to Kennesaw State. In his time with the Owls, he led Kennesaw State to the 1994 NAIA World Series title in their final season in the NAIA. The Owls then claimed the 1996 NCAA Division II Baseball Championship and a pair of national runner-up finishes in 1998 and 1999. Nine of his teams have won 40 or more games, including six in a row and 61 in 1998, a national record. Baseball America named Kennesaw State the "Best Division II program of the 1990s." After moving to Division I, the Owls joined the Atlantic Sun Conference and advanced to the finals of the 2013 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament.[1][2][3][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "2011-12 Baseball Coaching Staff". Kennesaw State Owls. Retrieved January 5, 2014. 
  2. ↑ "Kennesaw State's Mike Sansing Notches 800th Career Win". Atlantic Sun Conference. February 21, 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2014. 
  3. ↑ Jim O'Hara (September 27, 2008). "Hawks to play marathon". Rome News-Tribune. Retrieved January 5, 2014. 
  4. ↑ Jim Shonerd (February 10, 2009). "Heckathorn's success helps put Kennesaw State on Division I map". ESPN. Retrieved January 5, 2014. 

External links

Current head baseball coaches of the Atlantic Sun Conference
  • Tony Skole (East Tennessee State)
  • Dave Tollett (Florida Gulf Coast)
  • Tim Montez (Jacksonville)
  • Mike Sansing (Kennesaw State)
  • Jeff Forehand (Lipscomb)
  • Craig Gibson (Mercer)
  • Smoke Laval (North Florida)
  • Todd Asalon (Northern Kentucky)
  • Pete Dunn (Stetson)
  • Matt Fincher (South Carolina Upstate)
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