Coleman enters his 13th season as the Cowboys' head coach,
making him the second longest-tenured head coach at Hardin-Simmons
and first among baseball coaches in the American Southwest
Conference.
In his first 12 seasons, Coleman has posted a 286-219 record and
he is the school's all-time leader in wins. He has led the Cowboys
to the American Southwest Conference Playoffs on nine different
occasions, including finals appearances in 2001 and 2005. He has
coached 56 All-American Southwest Conference selections and three
All-Americans.
HSU won its first ASC West title in 2008.
His team has posted a cumulative GPA of over 3.0 each of the
last three semesters as he has a simple philosophy on academics, if
you can’t do both then we will eliminate baseball from the
equation.
Coleman became Hardin-Simmons' 22nd head coach in the 67-season
history of the program on June 18, 1997. He joined the Cowboys
after seven years in the high school coaching ranks, in which his
teams went to the playoffs five times. He led Wolfforth Frenship to
the 1993 4A state title game and went 70-30 in three seasons,
before moving to Odessa Permian High School. His Panther teams went
to the playoffs twice.
Coleman was a standout third baseman and catcher at Lubbock
Christian University from 1983 to 1985. He helped the Chaps win the
NAIA World Series in 1983 and was honorable-mention All-American in
1983. He transferred to LCU after one year at Oklahoma University,
where he earned a scholarship after a stellar career at Monterey
High School in Lubbock. In 1981, he helped the Plainsmen to the
Class 5A state title and, in the process, set four batting records
that still stand today.
Coleman earned a B.S. in Secondary Education from LCU in 1985.
He was hired as an assistant baseball and football coach at
Coronado High School in Lubbock in 1986, where he remained until
1990. Coleman, who was inducted into the LCU Hall of Honor in 1996,
married the former Lisa Everett in 1982.
They have two sons, Chad, 26, and Brad, 24. Brad is a graduate
assistant at Abilene Christian and Chad is a football and baseball
coach and history teacher in the Brownwood School District. Both
played baseball for their father at HSU.
