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,
and it’s first during his tenure.
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| Coaching
Record
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|
| Year |
W |
L |
T |
| 1986 |
24 |
17 |
0 |
| 1987 |
27 |
20 |
0 |
| 1988 |
24 |
21 |
1 |
| 1989 |
24 |
21 |
0 |
| 1990 |
25 |
16 |
1 |
| 1991 |
26 |
18 |
1 |
| 1992 |
30 |
20 |
0 |
| 1993 |
31 |
11 |
0 |
| 1994 |
31 |
16 |
0 |
| 1995 |
33 |
16 |
0 |
| 1996 |
37 |
9 |
0 |
| 1997 |
24 |
13 |
0 |
| 1998 |
32 |
15 |
0 |
| 1999 |
31 |
12 |
0 |
| 2000 |
33 |
12 |
1 |
| 2001 |
29 |
23 |
0 |
| 2002 |
30 |
21 |
0 |
| 2003 |
39 |
15 |
0 |
| 2004 |
30 |
23 |
1 |
| 2005 |
18 |
33 |
0 |
| 2006 |
20 |
26 |
0 |
| 2007 |
20 |
24 |
0 |
| Total |
618 |
403 |
5 |
|
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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.
