The Kennesaw State Owls baseball team represents
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw State University (KSU) is a public research university located in the state of Georgia with two different campuses in the Atlanta metropolitan area, one in Kennesaw and the other in Marietta on a combined of land. The school was fou ...
, which is located in
Kennesaw, Georgia
Kennesaw is a suburban city northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area. Known from its original settlement in the 1830s until 1887 as Big Shanty, it became Kennesaw under its ...
. The Owls are an
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 ...
college baseball
College baseball is baseball that is played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education. In comparison to football and basketball, college competition in the United States plays a smaller role in developing professional pl ...
program that competes in the
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 Divisio ...
. They began competing in Division I in 2006 and joined the ASUN Conference the same season.
The Kennesaw State Owls play all home games on campus at
Fred Stillwell Stadium
Fred Stillwell Stadium is a baseball venue located in Kennesaw, Georgia, USA. It is home to the Kennesaw State Owls of the NCAA Division I ASUN Conference. Stillwell Stadium has been home to the program since its 1984 inception. Its seating c ...
. Under the direction of Head Coach
Mike Sansing, the Owls have played in one NCAA Tournament. Over their fifteen seasons in the ASUN Conference, they have won one ASUN regular season title and two ASUN tournaments.
Since the program's inception in 1984, eight Owls have gone on to play in
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...
, highlighted by 2005 World Series champion
Willie Harris
William Charles Harris (born June 22, 1978) is an American professional baseball coach who is currently the third base coach for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is also a former Major League Baseball outfielder and second bas ...
. Over the program's 37 seasons, 55 Owls have been drafted, including
Max Pentecost
Maxwell Glen Pentecost (born March 10, 1993) is an American former professional baseball catcher. Prior to playing professionally, Pentecost attended Kennesaw State University, where he played college baseball for the Kennesaw State Owls baseball ...
and
Chad Jenkins
Stephen Chadwick Jenkins (born December 22, 1987) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Career
Jenkins played high school baseball at Cherokee High School in Ge ...
who were selected in the first round of the
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
and
2009
File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...
drafts, respectively.
Before joining the NCAA in 1994, the Owls additionally won the NAIA World Series in
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
.
Conference membership history (Division I only)
*2006–present:
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 Divisio ...
Fred Stillwell Stadium
Fred Stillwell Stadium is a baseball
stadium
A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...
on the Kennesaw State campus in
Kennesaw, Georgia
Kennesaw is a suburban city northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area. Known from its original settlement in the 1830s until 1887 as Big Shanty, it became Kennesaw under its ...
, that seats 900 people. It opened in 1984. A record attendance of 1,314 was set on April 3, 2012 in a game against
Georgia Tech
The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...
.
Head coaches (Division I only)
Records taken from the 2020 KSU baseball record book.
Year-by-year NCAA Division I results
Records taken from the 2020 KSU baseball record book.
NCAA Division I Tournament history
*The
NCAA Division I baseball tournament
The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship is held each year from May through June and features 64 college baseball teams in the United States, culminating in the eight-team Men's College World Series at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebr ...
started in 1947.
*The
format
Format may refer to:
Printing and visual media
* Text formatting, the typesetting of text elements
* Paper formats, or paper size standards
* Newspaper format, the size of the paper page
Computing
* File format, particular way that informatio ...
of the tournament has changed through the years.
*Kennesaw State began playing Division I baseball in 2006.
Awards and honors (Division I only)
* Over their 15 seasons in Division I, two Owls have been named to an NCAA-recognized All-America team.
* Over their 15 seasons in the ASUN Conference, 18 different Owls have been named to the all-conference first-team.
Johnny Bench/Buster Posey Award
All-Americans
Freshman All-Americans
ASUN Conference Player of the Year
ASUN Conference Defensive Player of the Year
ASUN Conference Pitcher of the Year
ASUN Conference Coach of the Year
ASUN Conference Freshman of the Year
Taken from the 2020 KSU baseball record book.
Owls in the Major Leagues
Taken from the KSU MLB draft history.
See also
*
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
{{ASUN Conference baseball navbox