Eddie Uschold - Staff Profile
Asst. Athletic Director/Head Baseball Coach/Coordinator of Outdoor Facilities /Instructor of Health & Sports Sciences
Eddie
Uschold enters his ninth season as Head Baseball Coach at Missouri Baptist
University. The 2006-2007 school year is Uschold’s sixteenth
season coaching at the collegiate level. After leading the Spartans
to a record 38-19 in 2006, Uschold’s overall record at MBU is 268–151
(284-175 overall). Uschold led the Spartans to three consecutive American
Midwest Conference Championships in 2002, 2003 & 2004. The 2006 Spartan
squad produced four first team all-conference players, three first team
all-region players and three all-americans. The team was ranked as high
as # 18 in the nation. During the 2006 campaign, Coach Uschold became the
Spartans all time win leader at the helm of the Baseball program. Uschold
tied the old mark of 251 career wins set in 1991 by Coach Penning in a 4-3
win against Ashford University on March 25th. Uschold then broke the all
time wins total later that day with a 6-1 victory over Ashford in game two
of the double header. Uschold was named American Midwest Conference Coach
of the Year following the 2003 & 2004 seasons. In 2003 Uschold was tabbed
the Region V Coach of the Year and was a finalist for the NAIA National
Coach of the Year. Uschold spent part of this past summer organizing free
baseball clinics for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina in Long Beach, Mississippi.
Uschold spent eight years preparing for the job of Skipper at Missouri Baptist University. Coach Uschold started his coaching journey in 1992 as a graduate assistant at Kent State University. The 1992 team was the first team since 1964 to win the Mid American Conference and qualify for the regional tournament. While coaching at Kent State, Uschold coached three future Major Leaguers. Dustin Hermanson and Travis Miller were freshmen on the “92” team and Mike Gulen was drafted after that season in the second round by the St. Louis Cardinals. Uschold worked under head Coach Danny Hall at Kent State University. Hall is currently the head baseball coach at Georgia Tech. The 1992 Kent State team ended with a 45-13 record. After his time at Kent State, Uschold moved to Tyler, Texas where he became the assistant coach at Tyler Junior College. He assisted Jon Groth in starting the program at Tyler and by the fifth season the Apaches hit .345 as a team and qualified for the regional tournament. While in Tyler, Uschold also worked for the Tyler Wildcatters of the Texas-Louisiana Professional Baseball League. Uschold also was involved with youth baseball in the summer throughout the East Texas area.
In the summer of 1997, Uschold was the head coach of the Athletes in Action team that toured Atlanta, Georgia and Central America. After his mission trip to Nicaragua and Costa Rica Uschold signed on as the assistant coach at Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana. In one year at Manchester the team hit a school record .345, received their first regional ranking, competed in their first conference championship game and the next season sent two players to the professional ranks. This led Uschold to his first head coaching opportunity at Olivet College located in Olivet, Michigan. Uschold took over a program that had no recruiting for two years and made them competitive. He had 22 new recruits entering the school when Andy Carter called to talk to him about the job at MBU. In his seven years at Missouri Baptist University, Uschold has won 268 games, coached nineteen all-Americans, nineteen all-region players, 40 first team all-conference players, sixteen conference players of the week, fourteen conference pitchers of the week, three regional pitchers of the week, three regional players of the week, one national player of the week and twenty-three players have signed professional contracts.
Coach Uschold is a native of Bedford Heights, Ohio. He received his undergraduate degree from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. Uschold double majored in Business Administration and Health & Physical Education with an emphasis in Sport Management. Kent State University in Kent, Ohio is where Uschold received his Master’s Degree in Physical Education with an emphasis in Athletic Administration. Coach Uschold is the assistant director of athletics, a full time faculty member in the Health and Sport Sciences department and Director of Outdoor Facilities at Missouri Baptist University. He is married to the former Ann Lester of Fairbanks, Indiana. Ann is the former Director of Student Activities at Missouri Baptist University. The Uschold’s reside in Manchester, Missouri. They are members of Ballwin Baptist Church in Ballwin, Missouri and are the proud parents of Sarah, Edward and Elizabeth.
Office Phone: (314) 392-2384
Email: uschoer@mobap.edu
