List of Nebraska Cornhuskers head baseball coaches

The Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team competes as part of NCAA Division I, representing the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference.

In its early years, Nebraska's program cycled through head coaches, most of whom led the program for a single year. The Cornhuskers competed as an independent until 1929, when John Rhodes led the team to the Big Six championship. W. W. Knight, hired forty-four years after the program's first season of competition, was Nebraska's first head coach to hold the position for more than three years.

After decades of heavy coaching turnover, the hire of Tony Sharpe in 1947 brought stability to the program for the first time; Sharpe and his successor John Sanders led Nebraska for a combined fifty-one years. However, this consistency did not translate to on-field success, as the two coaches combined for just three NCAA Tournament appearances. NU's first national success arrived with the hire of Dave Van Horn in 1998, who took the program to its first College World Series appearances in 2001 and 2002. When Van Horn resigned to return to his alma mater Arkansas after the 2002 season, assistant Mike Anderson succeeded him and led NU to a program-record fifty-seven wins and another College World Series appearance in 2005.

Nebraska has been coached by Will Bolt since 2020.

Coaching history

No.	Coach[A 1][A 2]	Tenure	Overall	Accomplishments
1	C. D. Chandler	1889–91	4–5 (.444)
2	Charles Stroman	1892–93	3–2–1 (.583)
3	Eddie N. Robinson	1897	8–5–1 (.607)
4	F. B. Ryons	1898	6–4 (.600)
5	Mike Henderson	1901	9–11 (.450)
6	Geo P. Shidler	1902	17–8 (.680)
7	J. H. Bell	1904	10–3 (.769)
8	S. S. Eager	1906	5–12–1 (.306)
9	Ducky Holmes	1907	5–11–1 (.324)
10	Billy Fox	1908–09	16–26–2 (.386)
11	Paul J. Schissler	1919–21	20–14 (.588)
12	Owen Frank	1922	12–4 (.750)
13	Scotty Dye	1923	4–4 (.500)
14	Earl Carr	1923	2–8 (.200)
15	William G. Kline	1924–25	18–15 (.545)
16	John Rhodes	1929–30	12–12–1 (.500)	Big Six champion (1929)
17	W. H. Browne	1931	2–10 (.167)
18	W. W. Knight	1933–41	38–92 (.292)
19	Adolph J. Lewandowski	1942	3–11 (.214)
20	Frank Smagacz	1946	9–7 (.563)
21	Tony Sharpe	1947–77	394–388–6 (.504)	Big Seven champion (1948,1950)
22	John Sanders	1978–97	767–453–1 (.629)	Big Eight champion (1980)
23	Dave Van Horn	1998–2002	214–92 (.699)	College World Series (2001,2002) Big 12 champion (2001) Big 12 tournament champion (1999–2001) Baseball America National Coach of the Year (2001)
24	Mike Anderson	2003–11	337–196–2 (.632)	College World Series (2005) Big 12 champion (2003,2005) Big 12 tournament champion (2005)
25	Darin Erstad	2012–19	267–193–1 (.580)	Big Ten champion (2017)
26	Will Bolt	2020–	97–75–1 (.564)	Big Ten champion (2021)

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Notes

1. Coaching information not available from 1899, 1900, 1905, 1907, and 1912^[1]
2. Nebraska did not field a team in 1903, 1913–18, 1926–28, 1932, and 1943–45

References

1. 2008 Nebraska Baseball Media and Recruiting Guide: Records Archived 2009-05-12 at WebCite
2. "Media Guide 2020" (PDF). Huskers.com. Retrieved 2020-10-02.