The Appalachian State Mountaineers baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of
Appalachian State University in
Boone, North Carolina
Boone is a town in and the county seat of Watauga County, North Carolina, United States. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Boone is the home of Appalachian State University and the headquarters for the disaster a ...
, United States.
The team is a member of the
Sun Belt Conference, which is part of
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of College athletics, intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major ...
. Appalachian State's first baseball team was fielded in 1903
.The team plays its home games at
Beaver Field at Jim and Bettie Smith Stadium in
Boone, North Carolina
Boone is a town in and the county seat of Watauga County, North Carolina, United States. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Boone is the home of Appalachian State University and the headquarters for the disaster a ...
. The Mountaineers are coached by
Kermit Smith
Kermit Smith is an Americans, American college baseball coach and former player. Smith is the head coach of the Appalachian State Mountaineers baseball team.
Playing career
Smith attended Pfeiffer University, where he was a member of the Falcon ...
.
Major League Baseball
Appalachian State has had 44
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 ...
selections since the draft began in 1965.
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 Charle ...
References
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