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Eastern Kentucky Colonels
The Eastern Kentucky Colonels are the intercollegiate athletic teams of Eastern Kentucky University (EKU), located in Richmond, Kentucky, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the NCAA Division I ranks, primarily competing in the ASUN Confer ...
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The Eastern Kentucky Colonels baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of
Eastern Kentucky University
Eastern Kentucky University (Eastern or EKU) is a public university in Richmond, Kentucky. As a regional comprehensive institution, EKU also maintains branch campuses in Corbin, Hazard, Lancaster, and Manchester and offers over 40 online ...
in
Richmond, Kentucky,
USA.
The team is a member of
ASUN Conference
The ASUN Conference, formerly the Atlantic Sun Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference operating mostly in the Southeastern United States. The league participates at the NCAA Division I level, and began sponsoring football at the Divisi ...
, which is part of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athlete, student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic sports, ...
's
Division I. Eastern Kentucky's first baseball team was fielded in 1925. The team plays its home games at
Turkey Hughes Field in
Richmond, Kentucky. The Colonels are coached by
Chris Prothro.
Colonels in Major League Baseball
Since the
Major League Baseball Draft
The first-year player draft is the primary mechanism of Major League Baseball (MLB) for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is determined based on a lo ...
began in 1965, Eastern Kentucky has had 34 players selected.
See also
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List of NCAA Division I baseball programs
The following is a list of schools that participate in NCAA Division I baseball. In the 2022 season, 301 Division I schools competed. These teams compete to go to the 64-team Division I baseball tournament and then to Omaha, Nebraska, and Charles ...
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Eastern Kentucky Colonels Baseball
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Sports clubs established in 1925