Ehren Larry Earleywine (born November 4, 1970) is an American sports coach and administrator who is currently athletic director at

Jefferson City High School Jefferson City High School (JCHS) is a public secondary school in Jefferson City, Missouri. It is one of the five public high schools in Cole County, Missouri, Cole County and is one of two in Jefferson City. History The Jefferson City Public Sc ...

. From 1997 to 1999, Earleywine was head baseball coach at Westminster College in Missouri. He later became a college softball head coach, first at

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from 2004 to 2006, then at

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from 2007 to 2018.

Early life and education

Born and raised in

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, Earleywine played college baseball as a

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at Southwest Missouri State (now

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) in the 1990 season, then at Westminster College in

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from 1991 to 1993 before graduating with a

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in 1994.

Baseball coaching career

From 1994 to 1996, Earleywine was an assistant coach at Westminster under former Major League Baseball player and

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alum Phil Bradley. After Bradley left the college, Earleywine became head coach at Westminster beginning in the 1997 season. Earleywine had a 63–44 cumulative record at Westminster from 1997 to 1999. In 2000, Earleywine joined Texas A&M–Corpus Christi as an assistant coach on the inaugural baseball team under head coach Hector Salinas.

Softball playing career

Earleywine was a member of the

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in the 1998, 1999, 2002, and 2003 seasons, being team captain in the last two seasons. He earned six Amateur Softball Association All-American honors and 1999 All-World honors from the International Softball Congress. In the

2003 Pan American Games The 2003 Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from August 1 to 17, 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when Dominican Republic had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America. Al ...

, Earleywine led the United States to a silver medal.

Softball coaching career

Georgia Tech (2002–2006)

Earleywine became a softball coach, beginning in 2002 as an assistant coach at

under Kate Madden. Earleywine became Georgia Tech head coach after two seasons as an assistant. From 2004 to 2006, Earleywine built a cumulative 146–55 record as Georgia Tech head coach, with three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2005, the

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(ACC) named Earleywine the Coach of the Year in softball for winning the ACC title.

Missouri (2007–2017)

Returning to his home state, Earleywine was head coach at

from 2007 to 2018, accumulating a 482–182 record. Missouri made every NCAA Tournament from 2007 to 2017, including eight Super Regional appearances (2008 to 2013, 2015, and 2016) and three consecutive

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appearances from 2009 to 2011. In the

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, Earleywine led Missouri to the 2009 Big 12 Tournament title and 2011 regular season title; the Big 12 named him

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in 2007 and 2011. Missouri moved from the Big 12 to SEC effective in the 2013 season. Missouri finished third in the SEC standings in 2013 and 2014. Despite finishing seventh in 2015 and sixth in 2016, Missouri made Super Regionals in both seasons. In 2017, which would become Earleywine's final season, the team finished one game over .500 at 29–28, eleventh in the SEC, and winless in NCAA Regionals. Nearly two weeks before the beginning of the season, Missouri athletic director Jim Sterk fired Earleywine on January 26, 2018. In 2016, he was investigated by the athletic department and Missouri Title IX office for nearly five months after being accused by players of verbal abuse. When the 2016 season ended, seven players left the program including pitching aces

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and Tori Finucane. Hired in March 2018, Earleywine became athletic director for Jefferson City Public Schools on July 1, 2018.

Head coaching record

Baseball

Sources:

Softball

References

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