Jeff Mercer

American baseball player and coach

Jeffery Daniel Mercer (born July 25, 1985) is an American college baseball coach and former first baseman. He is head baseball coach at Indiana University. He played college baseball at the University of Dayton from 2005 to 2007 before transferring to Wright State University to play in 2008 and 2009. In 2009, he was named the Horizon League Player of the Year. He was the head baseball coach at Wright State University from 2017 to 2018.

Coaching career

On July 16, 2016, Mercer was named the head coach for the Wright State Raiders baseball team.^[1]

On July 2, 2018, Indiana University Athletics announced the hiring of Mercer, to the head coaching position for the Hoosiers.^[2]

On May 21, 2019, Mercer was named Big Ten Coach of the Year, following his first year as coach of the Indiana Hoosiers.^[3]

Head coaching record

See also

• List of current NCAA Division I baseball coaches

References

1. Jay Morrison (July 13, 2016). "Wright State hiring of Jeff Mercer as baseball coach a 'no-brainer'". www.mydaytondailynews.com. Cox Media Group. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
2. "IU baseball tabs Bargersville native Jeff Mercer as head coach". The Indianapolis Star. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
3. "Big Ten Announces Baseball All-Big Ten Honors and Individual Award Winners". Bigten.org. 2019. Archived from the original on June 1, 2019. Retrieved May 21, 2019.