Chad Oxendine Explained

Chad Oxendine
Current Title:Associate Head coach
Current Team:Coastal Carolina
Current Conference:Big South
Birth Date:June 10, 1981
Birth Place:Lumberton, North Carolina
Player Years1:2001–2004
Player Team1:Coastal Carolina
Player Positions:Catcher
Coach Years1:2006
Coach Team1:UNC Wilmington (V)
Coach Years2:2007
Coach Team2:Alabama (V)
Coach Years3:2008–2010
Coach Team3:Richmond (Asst.)
Coach Years4:2011
Coach Team4:Myrtle Beach Pelicans (H)
Coach Years5:2012
Coach Team5:Coastal Carolina (V)
Coach Years6:2015–2017
Coach Team6:Longwood (Asst.)
Coach Years7:2022–2024
Coach Team7:Longwood
Coach Years8:2025–present
Coach Team8:Coastal Carolina (AHC)
Admin Years1:2018–2020
Admin Team1:Coastal Carolina
Admin Years2:2021
Admin Team2:Coastal Carolina
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Chad Oxendine (born June 10, 1981) is an American baseball coach and former catcher who is the currently the associate head baseball coach of the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers. He previously was the head coach of the Longwood Lancers. He played college baseball at Coastal Carolina for head coach Gary Gilmore from 2001 to 2004.

Playing career

Oxendine was a catcher at Coastal Carolina from 2001 to 2004, where he was a co-captain his junior and senior seasons, as well as a second-team All-Big South Conference player as a senior. He signed with the Chicago White Sox after college, spending one season with the Bristol White Sox of the Appalachian League before turning to coaching.

Coaching career

Oxendine began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at UNC Wilmington and later Alabama. He was named a full-time assistant at Richmond in July 2007 and spent three seasons with the program before joining the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, a single-A baseball team that was a part of the Texas Rangers system at the time, as their hitting coach in 2011.[1] He spent one season at his alma mater Coastal Carolina as a volunteer assistant, and did not coach college baseball until he was named an assistant coach at Longwood in 2015.

Oxendine returned to Coastal Carolina in 2017 to serve as the program's director of baseball operations. He was promoted to director of player development in 2020, also adding operations and data analytics duties.

Oxendine was named head coach at Longwood on June 28, 2021.[2]

Oxendine returned home to his alma mater (Coastal Carolina) on June 11, 2024 to be the Associate Head Coach and Recruiting Coordinator under new Head Coach Kevin Schnall[3]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Chad Oxendine Named Assistant Baseball Coach . University of Richmond Athletics . 3 August 2021.
  2. Web site: Former Lancer Assistant & Coastal Standout Oxendine Named Head Coach . Longwood University Athletics . 3 August 2021.
  3. https://goccusports.com/news/2024/6/11/baseball-oxendine-named-associate-head-coach-and-recruiting-coordinator.aspx