Kevin B. "Mac" McMullan is an American

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, currently the assistant baseball coach for the

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Cavaliers of the

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(NCAA). As a member of the Cavaliers baseball coaching staff, McMullan recruits and trains players to develop the quality of the baseball program at the university; under his

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baseball classes have achieved rankings of 12th (2004), 10th (2005), 8th (2006), 13th (2007), and 14th (2008) in inter-college NCAA competitions. Four of five teams coached by McMullan have been placed in USA's top 40 for

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.virginiasports.com: Kevin McMullan Biography
retrieved March 12, 2011

Biography

Raised in

Dumont, New Jersey Dumont is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 17,479,Dumont High School Dumont High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Dumont, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Dumont Public Schoo ...

. He studied at the

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) is a public research university in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. As of fall 2021, the university enrolled 7,044 undergraduates and 1,865 postgraduates, for a total enrollment of 9,009 students. The uni ...

, where he was a

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athlete. He played as

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for the IUP baseball baseball team and as

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for the IUP football

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; he was awarded the honor of

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n for both sports. During his college career, he was a part of six

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teams at IUP. After

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in 1990 he became a

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player for the

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(1990–92) and the

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(1990 and 1992). In 1990, he was a Pioneer League All-Star with the Trappers. McMullan began coaching on the University of Virginia baseball program in 2003. Previously he had coached within other

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and was a

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and coordinator for the

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, coaching the club's catchers and

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s during

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. In 2009, he was named the ABCA/''Baseball America'' Assistant Coach of the Year. In 2001–02, he was a

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, and

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for the Pirates,

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; he later became the Pirate's acting head coach. Under McMullan's three-year

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, the Pirates recorded 138 wins and 46 losses, finished within the top 25 teams each year, and won three conference championships and an NCAA Regional Championship. Players coached by McMullan have gone on to play in

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, including

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(

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), Mark Reynolds (

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) and

Joe Koshansky Joseph Stephen Koshansky (born May 26, 1982) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman. Early life Koshansky graduated from Chantilly High School in Chantilly, Virginia, in 2000. He played baseball as a pitcher and first baseman. He graduat ...

(

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).collegebaseball360.com: UVA’s McMullan Named Assistant Coach Of The Year
retrieved March 12, 2011

References

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All Star Baseball Academy 2009
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