Jim Morris (baseball coach)

Jim Morris

Morris in 2014
Sport(s)	Baseball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Miami (FL)
Record	981–405–3
Biographical details
Born	(1950-02-20) February 20, 1950 Lexington, North Carolina
Alma mater	Elon College '73
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1975	Appalachian State (AC)
1976–1979	DeKalb CC
1980–1981	Florida State (AC)
1982–1993	Georgia Tech
1994–present	Miami (FL)
Head coaching record
Overall	1,485–647–4
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1999 College World Series 2001 College World Series
Awards
1983 ACC Coach of the Year 1987 ACC Coach of the Year 1993 ACC Coach of the Year 2008 ACC Coach of the Year

Jim Morris (born February 20, 1950) is the head baseball coach at the University of Miami and previously held the same position at Georgia Tech. His teams have qualified for NCAA Regionals for the last 31 years, 22 at Miami and nine at Georgia Tech.^[1] Morris won national championships in 1999 and 2001, and earned National Coach of the Year honors in both seasons.

Early career

Morris began his coaching career as an assistant at Appalachian State in 1975. In 1976, he then accepted the challenge of building, from scratch, a baseball program at Atlanta's DeKalb Community College.

At DeKalb, Morris started with no players and no field, but he quickly made a name for himself. His Eagles were nationally ranked three times in four years and advanced to the 1977 Junior College World Series. DeKalb finished second in just his second season. Morris added two more winning years at DeKalb before moving on to become an assistant coach at Florida State.

Georgia Tech

After a two–year stint with the Seminoles, Morris would accept the head coaching job at Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets were on the backside of four straight losing seasons and were 4–23 in their first two seasons in the Atlantic Coast Conference. At Georgia Tech, Morris was the all-time leader in coaching victories, in any of the school's varsity sports, as he had 12 straight winning seasons, nine straight NCAA regional berths, four straight Atlantic Coast Conference titles (1985–88) and a school–record 51 wins in 1987.

Miami

In his tenure at the University of Miami, no other program has qualified for the College World Series as often as Morris and his Hurricanes. Miami, which has qualified for the NCAA Tournament a record 43 consecutive years, has made it to Omaha in 11 of Morris' 21 seasons in Coral Gables. Morris set an NCAA record for guiding a program to the College World Series in each of his first six years at Miami.

Head coaching record

See also

• List of college baseball coaches with 1,100 wins
• List of current NCAA Division I baseball coaches

References