Jason Kelly Named Assistant Coach Of The Year By D1Baseball.com
July 11, 2018 | Baseball
Washington Associate Head Coach Jason Kelly was named the national Assistant Coach of the Year, D1Baseball.com announced on Friday. Kelly, who has been a vital member of Lindsay Meggs' staff since 2014, serves as the Huskies' pitching coach, and up until 2017, served as the primary recruiting coordinator.
As recruiting coordinator, Kelly helped assemble the Huskies' 2018 squad that advanced to the first College World Series in school history. The Huskies also won the program's first-ever NCAA Regional and Super Regional, finished third in the Pac-12 with a 20-10 record and ended the year 35-26 overall.
Washington's 2018 pitching staff logged the second most innings among all Pac-12 teams, trailing only Oregon State, yet they put on an impressive display of control. Husky hurlers threw the fewest amount of wild pitches, hit the fewest number of batters and issued just one more walk than the lowest total by any other Conference staff. Under Kelly's direction, the Huskies were fourth in the Pac-12 with a 3.81 ERA.
Kelly also mentored a pair of All-Pac-12 performers in 2018, Joe DeMers and Alex Hardy. Kelly spear-headed the first-ever perfect game thrown by a Husky, calling an 84-pitch masterpiece by DeMers against UC Riverside. DeMers would go on to be selected in the 11th-round of the MLB Draft, yet another Kelly protégé to hear their name called in the draft.
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