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Four finalists named for baseball coach
South Dakota State will interview four candidates for the head baseball coach position next week.
The interview schedule:
* July 5-6; Rob Bishop, head coach at Miles Community College, Miles City, Mont.;
* July 6-7; Reggie Christiansen, assistant coach at the University of Kansas;
* July 7-8; John Weber, head coach at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wis.;
* July 8-9; Chris Calciano, head coach at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.
Bishop, who played at Jamestown College, was a graduate assistant at SDSU, earning his masters degree in 1999. He coached at Huron University, winning the SDIC title in 2000, then moved to Miles CC where he started the school's baseball program. Miles has won the MonDak Conference each of its four seasons, and Bishop has a 177-72 record as a collegiate head coach.
Christiansen has been an assistant (outfield) coach at Kansas the past two seasons after serving as head coach at Division III Menlo College in California. Christiansen played at Menlo, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1998. He became that school's head coach in June 2001. He expects to complete his master's degree at KU in July.
Weber guided Lakeland to its fourth straight Lake Michigan Conference title in 2004. Lakeland qualified for the NCAA Division III playoffs in 2002 and 2003, finishing fifth in 2002. Weber has been conference coach of the year four times. He has coached at Lakeland since August, 1998. He earned a bachelor's degree at Lewis University (Ill.) in 1993, and added a master's at Benedictine University in Lisle, Ill., in 1996.
Calciano guided West Chester to the 2004 NCAA Division II playoffs, finishing with a 36-12-2 record. He was an assistant coach at Division I Drexel (Pa.) when that university dropped baseball after the 2000 season. At West Chester, he turned around a program which had won just 22 games from 1998-2000. He has guided the Rams to three straight 30-win seasons.
Four finalists named for baseball coach
South Dakota State will interview four candidates for the head baseball coach position next week.
The interview schedule:
* July 5-6; Rob Bishop, head coach at Miles Community College, Miles City, Mont.;
* July 6-7; Reggie Christiansen, assistant coach at the University of Kansas;
* July 7-8; John Weber, head coach at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wis.;
* July 8-9; Chris Calciano, head coach at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.
Bishop, who played at Jamestown College, was a graduate assistant at SDSU, earning his masters degree in 1999. He coached at Huron University, winning the SDIC title in 2000, then moved to Miles CC where he started the school's baseball program. Miles has won the MonDak Conference each of its four seasons, and Bishop has a 177-72 record as a collegiate head coach.
Christiansen has been an assistant (outfield) coach at Kansas the past two seasons after serving as head coach at Division III Menlo College in California. Christiansen played at Menlo, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1998. He became that school's head coach in June 2001. He expects to complete his master's degree at KU in July.
Weber guided Lakeland to its fourth straight Lake Michigan Conference title in 2004. Lakeland qualified for the NCAA Division III playoffs in 2002 and 2003, finishing fifth in 2002. Weber has been conference coach of the year four times. He has coached at Lakeland since August, 1998. He earned a bachelor's degree at Lewis University (Ill.) in 1993, and added a master's at Benedictine University in Lisle, Ill., in 1996.
Calciano guided West Chester to the 2004 NCAA Division II playoffs, finishing with a 36-12-2 record. He was an assistant coach at Division I Drexel (Pa.) when that university dropped baseball after the 2000 season. At West Chester, he turned around a program which had won just 22 games from 1998-2000. He has guided the Rams to three straight 30-win seasons.
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