Steve Coleman

Hardin-Simmons University

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Coleman is in his 27th season as the Cowboys' head coach.
He is the longest-tenured head coach at Hardin-Simmons and first among baseball coaches in the American Southwest Conference.
In his first 26 seasons, Coleman has posted a 554-513 record and he is the school's all-time leader in wins.
He has led the Cowboys to the American Southwest Conference Playoffs on 18 different occasions, including finals appearances in 2001, 2005, 2016 and 2023.
He has coached 97 All-American Southwest Conference selections and seven All-Americans.
HSU won its first ASC West title in 2008 and also claimed the ASC West title in 2011.
His team has posted a cumulative GPA of over 3.0 each of the last 30 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 was hired as an assistant baseball and football coach at Coronado High School in Lubbock in 1986, where he remained until 1990.
He led Wolfforth Frenship to the 1993 4A state title game and went 70-30 in three seasons.
He then went to Odessa Permian High School for four years. 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 an 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.
He was inducted into the Lubbock ISD Hall of Honor in 2017.
Inducted into the LCU Hall of Honor in 1996.

Married the former Lisa Everett in 1982.
They have two adult sons, Chad and Brad, both of whom played for their father at HSU.
Chad is a football and baseball coach at Abilene Cooper.
Brad lives and works in Abilene with his wife Lori and three children Tucker, Taytum and Taylor.
Coleman earned a B.S. in Secondary Education from LCU in 1985.