Dallas Baptist pitching coach, Tallahassee native Micah Posey earns conference award
Dallas Baptist baseball has been impressive on the mound this season under pitching coach Micah Posey.
The 16th-ranked Patriots boast the lowest-team ERA (4.51) in Conference USA with three shutouts.
Additionally the staff ranks 14th nationally in strikeouts-per-nine innings (10.6) and strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.68) entering the conference tournament that starts Wednesday.
Posey’s efforts were recognized this week, when he was named the league’s Assistant Coach of the Year.
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DBU pitching coach Micah Posey in his third season with Patriots
The former North Florida Christian player, coach and son of Eagles coach Mike Posey, is in his third season at DBU.
In each of Posey’s first two seasons with the Patriots, DBU has reached the NCAA postseason, highlighted by a trip to the Columbia Super Regional in 2021.
During Posey's 10 years at the collegiate level, he has coached 29 players who were either drafted or signed professional baseball contracts.
Prior to his coaching career, Posey was a 15th round selection of the Anaheim Angels in 2001 out of NFC.
A left-handed pitcher, Posey spent four seasons in the Angels' minor league system and was a Midwest League All-Star selection in 2004. Following his professional baseball career, Posey graduated from Florida State with a degree in Marketing in 2011.
The Patriots (42-13 overall, 25-5 conference) are one of six teams to advance to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last eight seasons and have made regionals in 10 of the last 11 seasons, averaging 40 wins per year in that stretch.
They are on their first year with Conference USA after nine years in the Missouri Valley Conference.
And it has been a historic season for the Patriots.
DBU won every Conference USA series in its inaugural season as a member of the league.
The top-seed Patriots open the conference tournament Wednesday against No. 8 Rice at Reckling Park on the campus of Rice.
This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Former NFC star Posey named Conference USA's Assistant Coach of the Year
