Carl Iwasaki

Carl Iwasaki
Sport(s) Baseball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Northern Colorado
Conference Western Athletic Conference
Playing career
1981–1984 Northern Colorado
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2002–2003
2003–2004
2005–2010
2011–Present		 Saddleback (Asst.)
Austin (Asst.)
Austin
Northern Colorado
Head coaching record
Overall 197–272
Accomplishments and honors

Awards

Great West Coach of the Year: 2013

Carl Iwasaki is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Northern Colorado Bears baseball team. He was named to that position prior to the 2011 season.[1]

Iwasaki played four seasons at Northern Colorado from 1981 through 1984, graduating in 1985. He later spent five years coaching the Bakersfield Braves select team and three years with Hawaii Winter Baseball. He then served as an assistant coach for two seasons with the Saddleback Gauchos junior college team in Mission Viejo, California. Next, he worked two seasons at Division III Austin before being elevated to the top job for five seasons. He made the rare jump from Division III to newly Division I Northern Colorado in the summer of 2010.[2][3][4][5][6]

In his three seasons with the Bears, he has led the team to a Great West Conference title and the championship game of the 2011 Great West Conference Baseball Tournament. Iwasaki earned GWC Coach of the Year honors in 2013. The Bears joined the Western Athletic Conference for the 2014 season.[1]

Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Austin (Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference) (2005–2010)
2005 Austin 10–25
2006 Austin 19–22
2007 Austin 22–25 NCAA Regional
2008 Austin 18–24
2009 Austin 15–24
2010 Austin 19–20
Austin: 103–140
Northern Colorado (Great West Conference) (2011–2013)
2011 Northern Colorado 24–32 19–7 2nd (8) GWC Tournament[lower-alpha 1]
2012 Northern Colorado 27–33 15–13 4th (8) GWC Tournament[lower-alpha 2]
2013 Northern Colorado 33–24 20–7 1st (8) GWC Tournament[lower-alpha 3]
Northern Colorado (Western Athletic Conference) (2014–present)
2014 Northern Colorado 10–43 4–23 10th (10)
Northern Colorado (GWC): 94–133 58–50
Total: 197–272

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

  1. ↑ All eight of the GWC's teams qualified for the tournament in 2011.
  2. ↑ All eight of the GWC's teams qualified for the tournament in 2012.
  3. ↑ All eight of the GWC's teams qualified for the tournament in 2013.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Carl Iwasaki". Northern Colorado Bears. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Iwasaki Set to Take Division I Job". Austin College. August 4, 2010. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Iwasaki Named Head Coach at Northern Colorado". College Baseball Insider. August 5, 2010. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Austin College baseball coach leaving for Northern Colorado". KXII. August 3, 2010. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
  5. ↑ "UNC selects baseball coach". Denver Post. August 5, 2010. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Carl Iwaski to be named Head Coach at Northern Colorado". College Baseball Daily. August 4, 2010. Retrieved January 1, 2014.

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