Sherman Reed | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Coppin State |
Current Conference: | NEC |
Current Record: | 179–436–3 |
Birth Place: | Baltimore, Maryland |
Player Years1: | 1979–1983 |
Player Team1: | Towson |
Coach Years1: | ????–???? |
Coach Team1: | Western Tech HS |
Coach Years2: | ????–???? |
Coach Team2: | Catonsville HS |
Coach Years3: | 2008–2009 |
Coach Team3: | Coppin State (asst.) |
Coach Years4: | 2011–present |
Coach Team4: | Coppin State |
Overall Record: | 179–436–3 |
Tournament Record: | NCAA: 0–2 |
Championships: | MEAC Tournament (2022) |
Awards: |
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Sherman Reed is an American baseball coach and former player, who is the head baseball coach of the Coppin State Eagles. He played college baseball at Towson from 1979 to 1983.
Reed played collegiality for the Towson Tigers baseball team from 1979 to 1983. He then went on to play ten years of independent baseball.
Reed served as a coach at Western School of Technology and Environmental Science and Catonsville High School.[1] Reed also spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons as an assistant at Coppin State.
On July 9, 2010, Reed was named the head coach of the Coppin State baseball team.[2] On May 9, 2018, Reed broke the Coppin State record for career wins with his 84th win.[3] In 2018, Reed lead the Eagles to their first ever Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Northern Division title.[4] On May 15, 2018, Reed was named the MEAC Coach of the Year.[5]
Reed's wife is named Dorothy. Together, they had at least one son, Sherman Jr.
Reed's son, Sherman Jr., played college baseball at Southern University. He was shot and killed in his Violetville home in August 2019 at 31 years old.[6]