Danny Price is a former

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coach and former player. He was the head coach of the

Florida International University Florida International University (FIU) is a public university, public research university with its main campus in Miami-Dade County. Founded in 1965, the school opened its doors to students in 1972. FIU has grown to become the third-largest uni ...

(FIU)

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team, a position that he held from 1980 until May 2007. During that span, he recorded a thousand coaching victories, reaching that milestone on March 10, 2005. He was then head coach at

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from 2011 until his retirement in 2019, after which he planned to engage in charitable work. Price, the son of a

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born in

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, attended FIU and played on its baseball team as a student in 1973–74. He made the first

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for FIU, which had opened its doors a year before. He graduated in 1974, and returned as a hitting instructor in 1976. Former FIU baseball players coached by Price include

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star

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, and over one hundred other students signed to play professional baseball with major and minor league teams. At FIU, he was named TAAC Coach of the Year three times. In 2011, Price was named the head coach at

Head coaching record

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