UMSL Baseball Coaching Staff
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Jim Brady - Head Coach |
| Phone: 314-516-5647 | |
| E-mail: bradyja@msx.umsl.edu | |
Jim Brady is entering his 23rd season as head coach at UMSL and going into the 2008 season, he looks to continue the success the program has had throughout his coaching tenure.
Brady has a career record of 618-403-5, the most wins for any head coach in any sport in UMSL athletics. Entering the 2007 season, he ranked in the top 20 among NCAA Division II coaches for most career wins with 618, and is 31st among Division II coaches in career winning percentage at .612.
Early in the 2003 season, he recorded career
victory number 500 with an 11-4 victory over the University of Central
Missouri, and last year recorded his 600th career win with a victory
over Saint Rose (NY). Brady became the 47th coach in NCAA Division II
history to reach the 600-win milestone, and was the 29th active Division
II coach to reach 500 wins. His longevity and stability in the program
has been a key ingredient to the success the UMSL program has shown
under the tutelage of Brady.
| UMSL has had a winning season for all but three years that Brady has been the head coach. The teams have had 30 or more wins 11 times in the last 14 years, including a school-record of 39-15 record in 2003. In that historic 2003 season, Brady led UMSL to a first-place regular season finish in the GLVC and also won the GLVC Tournament, recording UMSL’s first ever conference title since joining the GLVC. UMSL also earned a bid and a first-place seed to the NCAA Regionals, their first trip to the regionals since the 1998 season. The 1998 team
finished with a 32-15 record and a bid to the NCAA Regionals.
In 1996, Brady guided the team to a then school record 37-9 record,
a first-place conference regular season finish, an NCAA Regional
title and a birth in the Division II College World Series. In
addition, Brady also led UMSL to back-to-back NCAA Regional appearances
in 1992 and 1993. In 1993, Brady led the team to its first appearance
in the Division II College World Series since the 1977 season,
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Thus far in his career at UMSL, Brady has coached 13 All-American players, 54 all-regional players and 85 all-conference players in either the MIAA or the GLVC. He has also coached five players who earned All-Conference and All-Region Player or Pitcher of the Year, and one Conference Freshman of the Year. Brady has been awarded with the Central Region Coach of the Year Award twice, in 1993 and again in 1996. In addition
to his coaching duties at UM-St. Louis, Brady has served as an
assistant coach at the U.S. Olympic National Baseball trials in
1992, and was honored by the Multiple Sclerosis Society for excellence
in coaching in 1994.
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Prior to being named the head coach, he assumed the pitching coach duties at UM-St. Louis in 1984 under former head coach Jim Dix. That year, Brady guided UMSL to a league-leading ERA as a team.
Before arriving at UMSL, Brady served as a teacher and assistant baseball and football coach at Parkway South High School for five years. He has also served as an assistant coach at Missouri State and helped guide the Bears to back-to-back post-season appearances in 1977 and 1978.
Brady
played collegiate baseball at nearby Meramec Community College, and
later went on to play at Division I Missouri State University in Springfield,
Mo. Brady has two sons, Kyle (20) who attends Washington University
in St. Louis, and Tyler (19), who attends Miami University (Ohio). His
grandfather, the late William C. Brady, is a member of the St. Louis
Soccer Hall of Fame.
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Joe Goodmann - Assistant Coach |
| Phone: 314-516-5647 | |
| E-mail: goodmannj@umsl.edu | |
Joe Goodmann is currently in his third season as the assistant baseball coach at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he handles the pitching staff. He has had previous coaching stops for the independent Springfield/Ozark Mountain Ducks, LaGrange College (LaGrange, Ga.) and at his alma mater, St. Mary’s University (San Antonio, Texas), where he was a volunteer coach for the 2001 NCAA Division II National Champions.
As a player, Goodmann finished up his seventh season of professional independent baseball this past summer for the Coastal Bend Aviators of the new American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. For the Aviators, Goodmann assumed the closer role and posted a 0-0 record with a 1.31 ERA and 6 saves. His professional career highlight came in 2004 where he helped the Edinburg (Texas) Roadrunners to the Central Baseball League championship and posted a 5-3 record with a 1.17 ERA. His professional career ERA is a 2.80 and he has averaged more than one strikeout per inning.
Goodmann graduated from St. Mary's University (Texas) with a degree in exercise and sports science with a teaching certification. He earned a masters degree in sports management from the University of Texas. He currently resides in St. Louis, MO, with his wife Julie.
| Logan Hughes - Assistant Coach | |
| Phone: 314-516-5647 | |
Logan Hughes is in his first season as an assistant coach at UMSL. Hughes will work with hitting and fielding instruction for the team, along with various other roles associated with the program.
Hughes played two seasons at UMSL, and put together an impressive list of accomplishments and honors during his career. In 2003, he helped lead the team to the 2003 NCAA Regionals and was named the GLVC Baseball Scholar Athlete of the Year. In 2004, he again was named GLVC Scholar Athlete of the Year as well as the recipient of the prestigious GLVC Paragon Award. He was a second team all-conference and all-region selection on the field, and earned academic all-district and academic all-conference honors as well.
Hughes entered the UMSL record books in many catagories depsite playing just two seasons. He tied the single season record for most games played with 54 in the 2003 season, and is ninth in the records for most hits in the season. The single season record for most RBI in a year is 56, which was accomplished three times in UMSL history, with Hughes reaching that mark two of those three times. He is second in the record books for most doubles in a season and eighth for most doubles in a career, and also ranks seventh in career RBI.