| Ritch Price | |
| Alma Mater: | Willamette '78 Cal State–Hayward '87 |
| Player Years1: | 1975–1976 |
| Player Team1: | Linn–Benton CC |
| Player Years2: | 1977–1978 |
| Player Team2: | Willamette |
| Coach Years1: | 1978–1981 |
| Coach Team1: | Phoenix (OR) |
| Coach Years2: | 1982 |
| Coach Team2: | Jasper (TX) |
| Coach Years3: | 1983–1986 |
| Coach Team3: | Menlo College |
| Coach Years4: | 1987–1994 |
| Coach Team4: | De Anza College |
| Coach Years5: | 1995–2002 |
| Coach Team5: | Cal Poly |
| Coach Years6: | 2003–2022 |
| Coach Team6: | Kansas |
Ritch Price is an American baseball coach and former player. He played college baseball at Linn–Benton Community College (1975–1976) and Willamette (1977–1978). He then served as the head baseball coach of the Menlo Oaks (1983–1986), the De Anza Dons (1987–1994), the Cal Poly Mustangs (1995–2002) and the Kansas Jayhawks (2003–2022).[1]
Price took over as head coach at Cal Poly for the 1995 season, which was to be the Mustangs first at the Division I level. In his second season, he led the team to a winning record.[2]
He accepted the head coaching position at Kansas on July 2, 2002,[3] and has led the Jayhawks to two NCAA tournament berths and their first Big 12 Conference baseball tournament title in 2006. Kansas had made only two NCAA appearances prior to Price's arrival. Price announced his retirement on May 22, 2022. [4]
The table below shows Ritch Price's record as a head coach at the Division I level.[5] [6] [7]
Ritch Price graduated from Sweet Home High School in Sweet Home, Oregon before attending Willamette University. [8] He has three sons, all of whom have played for him at Kansas. His eldest, Ritchie Price, was head coach at South Dakota State from 2008 to 2011, before returning to Kansas to again work on his father's staff.[9] Baseball America believes that the Prices were the first father–son duo to serve as head coach of two Division I programs at the same time.