Austin College Men's Baseball

Shawn Counts enters his third season as the head coach of the Austin College baseball team in 2022-23, serving in that role in an interim capacity during the 2022 campaign. Counts, a native of Tom Bean, began working with the 'Roos as an assistant in 2019 and previously served as an assistant coach at Grayson College from 2008-2018. During his time at Grayson, he helped develop 25 players who have gone on to play within Major League Baseball organizations and assisted in guiding the Vikings to the Junior College World Series in 2011. Grayson won four conference titles while Counts worked as assistant, and made nine consecutive NJCAA Region V tournament appearances. Counts helped lead [Austin College](http://acroos.com/) to upticks in both overall wins and [Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference](http://scacsports.com/) victories this season, as well as coaching three players to All-SCAC accolades. Along with his experience at both Grayson and [Austin College](http://acroos.com/), Counts also previously was the Head Coach the Melville Millionaires of the Western Canadian Baseball League to the WMBL championship in 2013, a year in which he was also named the WMBL Coach of the Year.