Baker University Men's Baseball

Goodwin came to Baker after serving as the head coach at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas for two seasons. In his first season at Wiley in 2014, Goodwin helped improve the Wildcats win total by 15 games and led Wiley to its first appearance in the Red River Athletic Conference Tournament since 2011. Wiley also garnered six Red River All-Conference players in 2014, including one First Team All-Conference performer and five Second Team selections. Coach Goodwin has local ties to the Baldwin City area, as he graduated from Lawrence High School. He has also coached at nearly every collegiate level, serving as the assistant baseball coach at NCAA Division I Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi from 2010-11. He served as the pitching coach and shared recruiting coordinating duties while at Jackson State. Goodwin bookended his time at Jackson State as the assistant baseball coach at NCAA Division II Washburn University and in 2012 helped lead the Ichabods to its best record in 12 years. He also served as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Neosho County Community College from 2004-07. Neosho won a school record 44 games in 2006 while having Goodwin on staff and won the KJCCC Eastern Division Championship. Goodwin played baseball at Highland Community College before a successful pitching career at the University of South Dakota where he still holds the career saves record and helped set the teams school record for team wins in 1999 with 27.