Meggs Agrees To Two-Year Extension Through 2025
January 18, 2019 | Baseball
SEATTLE - Washington Athletic Director Jen Cohen announced that Lindsay Meggs has signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him as the UW baseball coach through the 2025 season.
"I'd like to thank Jen Cohen for her support of Husky Baseball and for her confidence in me," said Meggs, who is in his 10th year of leading the Diamond Dawgs. "It's a privilege to work at the University of Washington with Jen, my coaches and our players. I believe our program is in a great place, and yet I think our best days are still ahead of us."
In 2018, Meggs guided the Huskies to one of the most momentous years in the program's 118-year history. Under his leadership, the Huskies overcame numerous injuries and setbacks to come within three outs of winning the Pac-12 regular season title. UW would finish 35-26 and third in the Pac-12 at 20-10. The 20 wins in Conference action were the second most by a Husky team since 1994 and tied for second most in school history.
The team earned its third NCAA Regional bid over the last five seasons and Meggs would navigate the Huskies to the their first-ever Super Regional, followed by the team's inaugural College World Series appearance.
"Coach Meggs has done an outstanding job with our baseball program both on and off the field and has built Washington into a national contender," said Cohen. "I am thrilled to extend his contract and look forward to seeing where he takes the program after last year's historic run to Omaha."
Meggs was instrumental in getting Husky Ballpark built and since moving into their new home five years ago, Washington has the second most wins and post-season appearances among Pac-12 schools. In nine years overall at UW, Meggs has compiled a 265-239-1 (.526) record and earned Pac-12 Coach of the Year in 2014. Eighteen Huskies have been named to the Pac-12 All-Conference team and 33 have heard their names called during the Major League Baseball Draft.
Off the field, Meggs has helped the Huskies make perhaps their greatest strides in the classroom. Since his arrival, the UW Baseball team has consistently posted a 3.0 or higher grade point average, doing so in 18 of the last 20 quarters. In the most recent quarter this past fall, the baseball team earned the UW athletic department's most improved team with a 3.16 GPA and had 22 student-athletes obtain 3.0 or higher – six of which made the Dean's List.
"I'd like to thank Jen Cohen for her support of Husky Baseball and for her confidence in me," said Meggs, who is in his 10th year of leading the Diamond Dawgs. "It's a privilege to work at the University of Washington with Jen, my coaches and our players. I believe our program is in a great place, and yet I think our best days are still ahead of us."
In 2018, Meggs guided the Huskies to one of the most momentous years in the program's 118-year history. Under his leadership, the Huskies overcame numerous injuries and setbacks to come within three outs of winning the Pac-12 regular season title. UW would finish 35-26 and third in the Pac-12 at 20-10. The 20 wins in Conference action were the second most by a Husky team since 1994 and tied for second most in school history.
The team earned its third NCAA Regional bid over the last five seasons and Meggs would navigate the Huskies to the their first-ever Super Regional, followed by the team's inaugural College World Series appearance.
"Coach Meggs has done an outstanding job with our baseball program both on and off the field and has built Washington into a national contender," said Cohen. "I am thrilled to extend his contract and look forward to seeing where he takes the program after last year's historic run to Omaha."
Meggs was instrumental in getting Husky Ballpark built and since moving into their new home five years ago, Washington has the second most wins and post-season appearances among Pac-12 schools. In nine years overall at UW, Meggs has compiled a 265-239-1 (.526) record and earned Pac-12 Coach of the Year in 2014. Eighteen Huskies have been named to the Pac-12 All-Conference team and 33 have heard their names called during the Major League Baseball Draft.
Off the field, Meggs has helped the Huskies make perhaps their greatest strides in the classroom. Since his arrival, the UW Baseball team has consistently posted a 3.0 or higher grade point average, doing so in 18 of the last 20 quarters. In the most recent quarter this past fall, the baseball team earned the UW athletic department's most improved team with a 3.16 GPA and had 22 student-athletes obtain 3.0 or higher – six of which made the Dean's List.
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