Baldwin Wallace University Men's Baseball

Harrison recently completed his sixth season as the head baseball coach at Baldwin Wallace University in 2015-2016. He is the 10th head coach in the history of the Yellow Jacket baseball program and succeeded the legendary Bob Fisher '63. Harrison's goals are to lead the Yellow Jackets to the Ohio Athletic Conference, an NCAA Division III Regional and an NCAA Division III National Championship. Simply put, Harrison is a winner and he works tirelessly to make his team into a winner each season. This spring, Harrison's team won 23 games and increased its streak of winning 23 or more games to five consecutive seasons seasons -- a 138-78 record during that span. His Yellow Jackets also advanced to the 2016 OAC Championship Game for the second time in the last three years. In 2015, Harrison took his Yellow Jacket team back to the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament. The trip marked BW's second straight appearance in the national tourney. The season included a school single-season record 31 victories and a 31-12 record. In 2014, Harrison led BW to its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Division III College World Series in Appleton, Wisconsin. He led the Yellow Jackets to a then school-record 30 victories, a 30-20 record into the prestigious Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament. BW went on to win the NCAA Division III Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament and advance to the World Series. At the Mid-Atlantic Regional, Harrison's team had a perfect 4-0 record in Moosic, Pennsylvania. BW also played in the 2014 OAC Championship Game. Prior to 2014, Harrison already had his program moving in a positive direction. In both 2012-2013 and 2013-2014, he led BW to a previous school-record 27 wins each season and a 27-13 record.  When Harrison came to BW, he was coming home.  He returned to Greater Cleveland where he grew up in Westlake, Ohio and was a prep standout at Lakewood St. Edward High School. He came to BW following a three-year stint at Dayton where his responsibilities included hitting, outfielders and recruiting.  While at Dayton, the Flyers improved offensively in almost every category. In 2009, Dayton won its first Atlantic 10 Conference Championship in school history behind the 21st ranked offense in all of NCAA Division I baseball.  Prior to his time at Dayton, Coach Harrison served as the head coach at NAIA Urbana University and turned the Blue Knight program into a winner. After going 7-43 in 2005, he coached the Knights to a 37-21 record and a second-place finish in the American Mideast Conference's South Division and a fourth-place finish in the Region IX Tournament in 2006. For his efforts, Coach Harrison was named AMC South Division Coach of the Year. The 30-win difference was one of the best single-season turnarounds in NAIA history. Coach Harrison did it again in 2007 by leading Urbana to a 32-21 record. That marked the fourth time in five years as a head coach that Harrison's teams amassed 30 or more victories in a single season. Coach Harrison had a 76-85 career mark at Urbana, including a very solid, 69-42 slate in his last two seasons. Prior to Urbana, Coach Harrison was the head coach at nearby Cuyahoga Community College, located in Parma Heights, Ohio. In his first season in 2003, Coach Harrison's Challengers came within one victory of the school record and had their first winning season in eight years. The team improved its win total from 16 in 2002 to 35 in 2003 and set 15 school records in the process.  His career mark at Tri-C was 65-41 overall.  He also served as an associate scout for the Cincinnati Reds from 2004-2005.   As a standout collegiate player at NAIA Shawnee State University,  Coach Harrison had more than 40 career homeruns and 200 RBI. He earned NAIA All-America honors after leading the Bears to a fifth-place finish at the 2000 NAIA College World Series and was later named to the Shawnee State Hall of Fame.  He then continued his baseball career at the professional level for two years before deciding to join the coaching ranks.   Coach Harrison, his wife Traci, their two sons, Braden and Luke, and daughter, Harper, currently reside in Olmsted Falls, Ohio. Brian Harrison's Numbers