Charleston Cougars baseball
The Charleston Cougars baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The team is a member of the Colonial Athletic Association, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at CofC Baseball Stadium at Patriot's Point in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The Cougars are currently coached by Chad Holbrook, who was previously the head coach at the University of South Carolina.
History
The College of Charleston baseball team has been a member of NCAA Division I since 1991. The Cougars have won six regular season conference titles and two conference tournament championships, one in the Southern Conference and one in the Colonial Athletic Association. The Cougars have appeared in the NCAA Division I baseball tournament seven times, most recently in 2015. They have advanced to the Super Regional round of the NCAA tournament twice, accounting for their deepest postseason run. The Cougars swept the 2006 Lexington Regional and the 2014 Gainesville Regional, before falling to Georgia Tech and Texas Tech, respectively.From 2009 until 2015, the Cougars were coached by Monte Lee, a former player for Charleston. During Lee's tenure at CofC, the Cougars went 276–145, qualifying for the NCAA tournament in four of Lee's six seasons. Lee coached three players that were drafted in the first five rounds in the MLB Draft: Taylor Clarke, Carl Wise and Heath Hembree, who reached MLB in 2013. Lee left Charleston after the 2015 season to take the same position with the Clemson Tigers.
In 2017, Chad Holbrook was hired on as head coach after a four year stint with South Carolina. Chad was previously recruiter of the year and assistant coach of the year as an assistant coach with South Carolina lead the Gamecocks to the NCAA Super Regionals twice during his tenure as head coach. In 2022, the Cougars were the CAA regular season champions for the first time since 2015.
Charleston has produced 28 college All-Americans and 62 professional players, including Brett Gardner of the New York Yankees. From 2004 to 2015, the College of Charleston has the 13th best winning percentage in all of Division I baseball. Oliver Marmol, the current manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, is a former Cougar baseball player.
Year-by-year results
Charleston's history since joining Division I in 1991.NCAA tournament results
Charleston has appeared in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship seven times, most recently in 2015 when the Cougars lost in the Tallahassee Regional final to Florida State. Charleston's overall record in the NCAA tournament is 14–14.| Year | Seed | Round | Opponents | Results |
| 2004 | #3 | Baton Rouge Regional | #2 Southern Mississippi
| L 6–5W 2–1 W 7–3 L 11–3 |
| 2005 | #2 | Clemson Regional | #3 Oral Roberts
| W 5–2L 6–0 L 6–0 |
| 2006 | #2 | Lexington Regional | #3 Notre Dame
| W 5–4W 11–0 W 7–4 |
| 2006 | #2 | Atlanta Super Regional | #1 Georgia Tech | L 5–0 L 12–3 |
| 2010 | #2 | Myrtle Beach Regional | #3 NC State
| W 9–6W 16–6 L 8–7 L 11–10 |
| 2012 | #3 | Gainesville Regional | #2 Georgia Tech
| L 8–4W 8–2 L 3–0 |
| 2014 | #4 | Gainesville Regional | #1 Florida
| W 3–2W 6–3 W 4–2 |
| 2014 | #4 | Lubbock Super Regional | #1 Texas Tech | L 1–0 L 1–0 |
| 2015 | #2 | Tallahassee Regional | #3 Auburn
| W 7–6L 3–2 W 3–2 L 8–1 |