Rick Jones (baseball)

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Rick Jones
Sport(s)	College baseball
Current position
Title	Head Coach
Team	Tulane
Conference	C-USA
Biographical details
Born	Bennett, North Carolina, United States
Playing career
1972-1973 1974-1975	Sandhills CC UNC Wilmington
Position(s)	Pitcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1982-1984 1985-1989 1990-1993 1994 – present	Ferrum College Elon Georgia Tech (Asst.) Tulane
Head coaching record
Overall	804-428-2
Tournaments	C-USA: 39-23 NCAA: 28-26
Accomplishments and honors
Championships Carolina Conference Regular Season (1985, 1987, 1989) Conference USA Regular Season (1997, 1998, 2001, 2005) Conference USA Tournament (1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005)
Awards Carolina Conference Coach of the Year (1985, 1987, 1989) Conference USA Coach of the Year (1997, 2001, 2005) Baseball America National Coach of the Year (2005)

Rick Jones is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as the head coach of the Tulane Green Wave baseball team. He has held that position since the start of the 1994 season.

Jones took over the Tulane baseball program in 1994 and has led the Green Wave to 12 NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2001 his team advanced to the College World Series for the first time in school history. In 2005 he again led his team to the CWS, this time as the overall #1 seed in the tournament.

Jones' teams have won four Conference USA regular-season championships (1997, 1998, 2001, 2005) and five Conference USA tournament championships (1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005).

Early his coaching career, Jones coaches at Ferrum College, while it was an NJCAA member, and at Elon College, while it was an NAIA member.

Head coaching records

The following is a table of Jones's yearly records as an NCAA Division I head baseball coach.^[1]^[2]

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Tulane Green Wave (Metro Conference) (1994–1995)
1994	Tulane	41-24	10-8	4th	NCAA Regional
1995	Tulane	32-26	8-10	5th
Tulane Green Wave (Conference USA) (1996–present)
1996	Tulane	43-20	18-6	2nd	NCAA Regional
1997	Tulane	40-21	19-7	1st	C-USA Tournament
1998	Tulane	48-15	22-5	1st	NCAA Regional
1999	Tulane	48-17	19-8	2nd	NCAA Regional
2000	Tulane	38-22-1	20-6-1	2nd	NCAA Regional
2001	Tulane	56-13	21-6	1st	College World Series (#5 National Seed)
2002	Tulane	36-27	17-13	5th	NCAA Regional
2003	Tulane	44-19	20-10	3rd	NCAA Regional
2004	Tulane	41-21	21-9	t-2nd	NCAA Super Regional
2005	Tulane	56-12	24-6	1st	College World Series (#1 National Seed)
2006	Tulane	43-21	15-9	3rd	NCAA Regional
2007	Tulane	34-26	9-15	7th	C-USA Tournament
2008	Tulane	39-22-1	13-9-1	3rd	NCAA Regional
2009	Tulane	34-24	13-11	t-3rd	C-USA Tournament
2010	Tulane	32-24	10-14	t-8th
2011	Tulane	31-26	10-14	7th	C-USA Tournament
2012	Tulane	38-20	14-10	t-3rd	C-USA Tournament
2013	Tulane	30-28	11-13	7th	C-USA Tournament
Tulane:		804-428-2	314-179-2
Total:		804-428-2
National champion Conference regular season champion Conference tournament champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Conference division champion

References

↑ "Annual Conference Standings". BoydsWorld.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2013. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
↑ "2013 Conference USA Baseball Media Guide". Archived from the original on February 9, 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2013.

External links

Tulane Profile

Elon Phoenix head baseball coaches

Unknown (1900–1901)
No team (1902)
Unknown (1903–1906)
Ralph McLaurin (1907)
M. B. Morrow (1908)
Hoffman (1909)
L. L. Hobbs, Jr. (1910)
Bunn Hearne (1911)
Bob Doak (1912–1915)
Jack Johnson (1916–1920)
Frank Corboy (1921–1926)
Charlie Carroll (1927)
Peahead Walker (1928–1937)
Horace Hendrickson (1938–1941)
Joe Brunansky (1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Jet Pierce (1946)
Hap Perry (1947)
James Mallory (1948–1953)
Graham Mathis (1954–1956)
Jack Sanford (1957–1966)
Jerry Drake (1967–1974)
Bill Miller (1975)
Bobby Jones (1976)
Bob McBee (1977–1984)
Rick Jones (1985–1989)
Mike Hardin (1990–1993)
Billy Best (1994–1996)
Mike Kennedy (1997– )

Tulane Green Wave head baseball coaches

J. P. Clinton (1892–1893)
Jack Dowling & T. L. Bayne (1894–1895)
No team (1896)
F. B. Manis (1897–1898)
Unknown (1899–1901)
H. T. Summersgill (1902)
Thomas Willis (1903–1905)
J. Richard (1906–1907)
No team (1908–1909)
Unknown (1910)
Bruce Hays (1911–1915)
Unknown (1916)
No team (1917–1918)
John Gondolfi (1919)
No team (1920–1922)
Bruce Hays (1923)
Claude Simons, Sr. (1924–1927)
Peggy Flournoy (1928)
Unknown (1929)
Ted Bank (1930)
No team (1931)
Ted Bank (1932)
No team (1933–1936)
Bill Vegan (1937)
Claude Simons, Jr. (1938–1941)
Robert Kellog (1942)
Claude Simons, Jr. (1943–1949)
John Reed (1950–1951)
Dennis Vinzant (1952–1954)
Ben Abadie (1955–1957)
Mel Parnell (1958)
Bob Whitman (1959)
Jack Orsley (1960–1961)
Doug Hafner (1962–1963)
Ben Abadie (1964–1966)
Milt Retif (1967–1974)
Joe Brockhoff (1975–1993)
Rick Jones (1994– )

v t e Current head baseball coaches of Conference USA

Loren Hibbs (Charlotte) Billy Godwin (East Carolina) John McCormack (Florida Atlantic) Turtle Thomas (FIU) Wade Simoneaux (Louisiana Tech) Jeff Waggoner (Marshall) Jim McGuire (Middle Tennessee) Chris Finwood (Old Dominion) Wayne Graham (Rice) Scott Berry (Southern Miss) Rick Jones (Tulane) Brian Shoop (UAB) Jason Marshall (UTSA)

Persondata
Name	Jones, Rick
Alternative names
Short description	American baseball coach
Date of birth
Place of birth	Bennett, NC
Date of death
Place of death

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