Scott Googins
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Scott Googins is an American college baseball coach who was most recently the head coach of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats Baseball Team. Googins was hired at Cincinnati on June 6, 2017 and resigned in May of 2023 following the conclusion of the Bearcats' 2023 season, shortly after multiple assistants were fired for failing to report a sports gambling scandal. He left Xavier after being the skipper of the Musketeers baseball team since the start of the 2006 season. Under Googins, Xavier appeared in three NCAA tournaments. In 2008, he was named the A-10 Coach of the Year, and in 2009, he was named the ABCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year. Googins is an alumnus of Ohio Wesleyan University, where he played baseball for the Battling Bishops.[1]
Biographical details | |
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Born | Granville, Ohio, U.S. |
Alma mater | Ohio Wesleyan University '92 |
Playing career | |
1989–1992 | Ohio Wesleyan |
Position(s) | Catcher |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1993–2000 | Indiana (asst.) |
2001–2004 | Miami (OH) (asst.) |
2005 | Xavier (asst.) |
2006–2017 | Xavier |
2018–2023 | Cincinnati |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 482–511 |
Tournaments | NCAA: 7–10 Big East: 9–1 A-10: 12–11 AAC 5–6 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
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Awards | |
ABCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year (2009) A-10 Coach of the Year (2008) Big East Coach of the Year (2016) | |