LAWRENCE, Kan. — University of Kansas Athletic Director Travis Goff announced Wednesday the school has hired LSU assistant/recruiting coordinator Dan Fitzgerald as head coach for the Kansas Jayhawks baseball team.
News of Fitzgerald's hiring was first reported by Kendall Rogers of D1Baseball.com.
🚨BREAKING: @KUBaseball will hire @LSUbaseball assistant/recruiting coordinator Dan Fitzgerald as its next head coach, sources tell @D1Baseball. Fitzgerald spent the '22 season with #LSU, nine seasons at #DBU and was previously a head coach at Des Moines (IA) College. #RockChalk
— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogers) June 15, 2022
Fitzgerald was hired by LSU on July 9, 2021. He had spent the previous nine seasons at Dallas Baptist, where they had 30 recruits selected in the MLB Draft , including 11 in the top 10 rounds.
Fitzgerald also had 69 players that received Missouri Valley All-Conference honors during his time at Dallas Baptist. Nine of them earned All-America honors.
Dallas Baptist finished 41-13 during Fitzgerald’s final season there and fell one win short of reaching the College World Series during the 2021 season.
90 head coaches were surveyed by Baseball America in 2020. Of that poll, Fitzgerald was ranked as the seventh best assistant coach across the country that had great head coaching potential.
Dallas Baptist finished 41-13 and fell one win short of reaching the College World Series during the 2021 season.
Fitzgerald was previously the head coach at Des Moines Area Community College in Boone, Iowa, from 2008-2012. His team reached the Junior College World Series four times during his five season there.
He began his career in 2000 at the University of Iowa.
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