Larry Lee | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Cal Poly |
Current Conference: | Big West |
Birth Date: | 12 December 1959 |
Birth Place: | San Luis Obispo, California, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1980 |
Player Team1: | Santa Barbara CC |
Player Years2: | 1981 |
Player Team2: | Orange Coast |
Player Years3: | 1982–1983 |
Player Team3: | Pepperdine |
Player Positions: | Second baseman Third baseman |
Coach Years1: | 1984–1985 |
Coach Team1: | Cuesta (asst.) |
Coach Years2: | 1986 |
Coach Team2: | Cal Poly (asst.) |
Coach Years3: | 1987–2002 |
Coach Team3: | Cuesta |
Coach Years4: | 2003–present |
Coach Team4: | Cal Poly |
Overall Record: | (junior college) (NCAA) |
Tournament Record: | NCAA: 3–6 |
Championships: | |
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Larry Patrick Lee (born December 12, 1959) is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as the head coach of the Cal Poly Mustangs baseball team. He began this job prior to the 2003 season.[1]
After graduating from San Luis Obispo High School in 1979, Lee played at two junior colleges, Santa Barbara City College in 1980 and Orange Coast College and 1981, before using his final two years of eligibility at Pepperdine.[2] He then played briefly as a professional, appearing with the Class-A Utica Blue Sox in 1983.[3]
Lee coached for sixteen years at Cuesta College, a community college in San Luis Obispo, California. He was named head coach at Cal Poly, also in San Luis Obispo, to replace Ritch Price, the school's first Division I coach, with the official announcement of his introduction taking place on July 22, 2002.[4]
Lee built on Price's success with the Mustangs, earning the school's first invitation to the NCAA tournament in 2009. As of 2023, he has coached 13 All-Americans and 79 players who would later sign professional contracts.
Lee and his wife, Liz, have a son and a daughter together. Their son, Brooks, played on the Cal Poly baseball team and was a first-round selection in the 2022 Major League Baseball draft.[5]
The table below shows Lee's record as a junior college head coach.[6]
The table below shows Lee's record as a head coach at the NCAA Division I level.[7] [8]