E. B. In his two seasons at Tyler Junior College, he won two NJCAA DIII National Championships and was a first team All-American. Sam graduated from Auburn University-Montgomery with a degree in Kinesiology and has recently started his masters at the University of Alabama through the Bama by Distance. No coach's tenure lasted longer than two seasons, with the exception of C. C. Stroud, who was head coach for eight seasons. He had a career batting average of .339, hit 24 homeruns and 132 RBIs. Brad comes to Shreveport after a short stint as the pitching coach at Division I Southern Illinois University. Prior to his time at Charles Henderson, he was the recruiting coordinator and hitting coach at Auburn University-Montgomery. Mainieri completed his undergraduate degree requirement at Florida International University in 1980, earning a B.S. Baseball News Schedule Roster Coaches Stats Tickets Additional Links. Renny will go down as one of the best pitchers to ever put on a Pilots uniform and we look forward to what he will do for our program on the coaching side.". Young has the highest winning percentage of any Tiger coach with a 1–0–0 record (1.000) in his one season at LSU. Mainieri replaced Smoke Laval at the end of the LSU Tigers' 2006 season. Prior to his collegiate coaching, he worked as a prep coach in Oregon from 2005-10. Renny Tolentino hails from Miami, FL (St. Brendan Catholic School) and came to LSUS via Kishwaukee CC in Malta, Illiniois. After one year he transferred to the University of New Orleans where he played for two years and helped the team win two Sun Belt Conference titles and earn an appearance in the 1979 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. College World Series appearances include seasons with CWS bids since the tournament began in 1947. Postseason appearances include seasons with NCAA Division I Baseball Championship bids since the tournament began in 1947. The Bulldogs won conference championships in each of Neffendorf's four seasons there and spent 18 weeks ranked in the top-10 nationally. Pitchers have flourished under Neffendorf’s guidance. Coach Judah comes to LSU Shreveport after coaching at Charles Henderson High School in Troy, Alabama. Head Coach: Brad Neffendorf, Assistant Coach: Sam Judah, Assistant Coach: Renny Tolentino, Student Assistant: Jordan Trahan. Moving to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in 1995, Mainieri turned the Fighting Irish into a perennial postseason contender winning the Big East tournament a record 5 straight seasons, making the NCAA Tournament 9 out of 12 seasons, and leading the Irish to one College World Series appearance in 2002. He had a career batting average of .338, hit 30 homeruns and 122 RBIs. The Southeastern Conference began a baseball tournament in 1977. Opponents hit .175 against Renny as he went on to be the RRAC Pitcher of the Year and named a NAIA All-American. While at Parkland Judah served as the hitting coach, strength coach and assisted with recruiting. The LSU Tigers baseball program is a college baseball team that represents Louisiana State University in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Under Mainieri's leadership, the team swept the Baton Rouge Regional bracket of the NCAA baseball post-season and won their first Super-Regional since 2004. He also has experience working in collegiate summer leagues, coaching for the Winchester Royals in 2011 and Front Royal Cardinals in 2014 and 2015. Stroud coached LSU from 1914–1921 and had an overall record of 73–58–5 (.595). In four seasons at Tennessee Wesleyan as the recruiting coordinator and pitching coach, Neffendorf helped guide the Bulldogs to a combined 186-66 record (.738), which included two 50-win seasons and a school-record 56 wins during the national championship 2019 season. [1], In 2006, Bertman was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.[3]. 2 national ranking and a trip to the NAIA World Series. I'm excited to join a coaching staff with such great baseball minds and I look forward to helping the program in its' continued success.". As a Senior, Renny went 11-3 with a 2.89 ERA in 93 IP while striking out 126 and giving up only 58 hits. The 2009 title was the sixth in LSU baseball history, tying Texas for the second most national championships in college baseball history, and Mainieri joined Skip Bertman as the only LSU baseball coaches to win a national championship. [1] The current coach is Paul Mainieri, who took over the head coaching position in 2007. Paul Mainieri asked the university to include his middle name, Demie, in the naming of the field because it is the same name as his father's first name. Spanning 12 seasons, the Paul Mainieri Era at LSU has been distinguished by tremendous success in all facets of the Fighting Tiger baseball program.