Jason Hawkins
	Head Baseball Coach hawkins@oxy.edu 323 259 2683

Jason Hawkins enters his second collegiate head coaching position after acquiring more than 14 years of coaching experience at both the high school and collegiate levels.

The Oregon native and son of a long-time high school coach, played for Western Oregon University after a high school career at West Albany HS. Hawkins began his coaching career while still in college, becoming the head coach at Springfield HS in Springfield, OR after graduating in 1995. He went on to obtain his master’s in Education from Pacific University in 1998 while coaching high school ball in North Eugene and Hillsboro.

In 1999 Hawkins took a position as head coach and English teacher at Desert Hot Springs High School near Palm Springs, CA. Over the last eight years he has also served as the Department Chair and ELL Curriculum Coach in the Palm Spring Unified School District. He was the head coach at Desert Hot Springs HS for five seasons before joining the collegiate coaching scene as an infield and hitting coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Redlands.

During his four years at Redlands, Hawkins helped coach the nationally ranked NCAA Division III Bulldogs to a 2006 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship, the program’s first in 15 years. During the past four years, the team posted a 104-57 record, tops in SCIAC.

Over the summers Jason has had opportunities to coach in a pair of summer collegiate baseball leagues. For two season he was an infield and bench coach for the Palm Springs Power of the Southern California Collegiate Baseball Association. While he was coaching the Power, Palm Springs finished 11th at the 2006 NBC World Series and captured a SCCBA championship in 2007.This past summer he returned to his hometown of Corvallis, OR, as the pitching coach for the Knights of the West Coast Collegiate Baseball League, where current Tiger outfielder Glenn Gray spent his summer playing ball.

Jason and his wife of 12 years, Angela, have two young sons, Will (3) and Cal (2).

	James Rise
	Assistant Head Coach / Recruiting Coordinator / Strength & Conditioning Coach rise@oxy.edu 323 259 2683

Education:  Earned a BS in Health/Physical Education from Western Oregon University in 2005.  Rise then went on to Pacific University to earn an MAT in education.   

Background: Born and raised in Springfield, Oregon, Rise attended Springfield High School. He competed in Baseball, Basketball, and Football during all four of his years at SHS. 

During his freshman year in baseball, Rise had the opportunity to play for current Oxy head baseball coach Jason Hawkins. As a junior, Rise helped lead his team to a top 5 finish in state and a league championship as a senior.  After graduating high school he played and coached for College of the Siskiyous before earning his degrees.  Prior to moving on to Occidental, Rise served as a Physical Education instructor at Oak Hill School in Eugene, Oregon.

In his first year serving as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator, Rise helped introduce a new mentality to many facets of the baseball program.  Rise manages a defense which saw both of its middle infielders (Jason Jebbia and Dan Kelly) earn All-Conference accolades, with Jebbia earning All-Region recognition as a shortstop. With only one full-time starter from the previous year, the defense was able to rank in the top 25 nationally a year ago in terms of double plays turned per game.

Rise also took over recruiting responsibilities in his first year.  With the long time tradition Occidental baseball has had, the goal is to bring in proven talent that can help return the program to its championship days.  In the first recruiting class under the direction of Rise, Oxy was able to land three state champions from the state of California, a Division 1 transfer from USF, and three other post season participants from the Spring of 2009.  In addition, the baseball team has added three Junior College transfers to the roster in the past 16 months.

This season Rise will take over the duties of coaching the Oxy shortgame and baserunning while continuing to handle the defense.  The Tigers will try to improve on their 136 stolen bases from a year ago, which ranked them 5th in the country.   

Off of the field, Rise serves as the strength and conditioning coach for the baseball team as well as working with the Oxy softball, lacrosse, and women's basketball teams.  Rise has also worked as a substitute teacher in the area while handling his other duties on campus.  Rise spent the 2009 summer back in Oregon, where he was married to former high school class mate. He currently lives in Eagle Rock. 

Coaching Experience:

College of the Siskiyous: Assistant Head Coach (2005-2006)
Springfield Titans American Legion: Assistant Coach (2003-2005, 2008)
Springfield High School: Assistant Head Coach (2006-2008)
Occidental College: Assistant Head Coach (2009 - Present)

Playing Experience:

Springfield High School: (1997-2004)
College of the Siskiyous: (2003-2004)
 

	Luke Wetmore
	Assistant Coach - Hitting wetmorel@oxy.edu 323 259 2683

Education:  After graduating from Santa Cruz High School, Luke moved to Southern California to work on his undergraduate degree at the University of Redlands.  After earning his BA in Studio Art from Redlands in 2008, Luke started work on both Multiple and Single Subject Teaching Credentials at the University of Redlands while taking the assistant coaching position at Occidental College.

Background:  Born in Santa Rosa, CA, Luke grew up in Santa Cruz where he played baseball, football and wrestled at Santa Cruz High School.  At SCHS Luke was a 2nd Team All League linebacker and tight end his senior year, a two time league champion in wrestling (172 and 189 lbs) and played on three Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Championship teams in baseball. 

After high school Luke played both football and baseball at the University of Redlands.  At Redlands, Luke was a part of two SCIAC championship football teams and one SCIAC championship baseball team.  After a season ending injury at the start of his junior year, ending his football career, Luke played three more seasons of baseball, accumulating a .317 career batting average, slugging .516 and posted a .412 OB%. Out of his 108 career hits, Luke totaled 176 bases with 29 doubles and 13 homeruns while driving in 91 runs. During the four years Luke played at Redlands the Bulldogs posted a 99-61 record

Coaching Experience:
Luke enters his second year of coaching at Occidental after playing outfield for the Bulldogs for four years.  In his first season as Oxy's hitting coach the Tiger's hit .283 and were ranked fifth in the nation in stolen bases (134 of 171) and HBP (80).  On the year the Tigers drove in 245 and hit 93 extra base hits and posted a .380 OB% and .396 SLG%.  In his second year Luke will be coaching outfielders as well as continuing his work with hitters.

Playing Experience:
University of Redlands: (2004-08)
Santa Cruz HS: (1998-2002)  

	Adam Morgan
	Volunteer Assistant Coach - Pitching 323 259 2683

Education:   From 1998-2002, Adam attended Woodland Christian High School in Woodland, CA. After graduation, Adam went on to earn his Associate's Degree in General Education from College of the Siskiyous in Weed, CA. In the fall of 2004, he transferred to California State University, Sacramento where he received his Bachelor's Degree in History in 2007. Currently, Adam is attending National University for both a multiple and a single subject teaching credential.

Background:   Adam was born and raised in Woodland, CA. He attended Woodland Christian High School where he played four years of baseball.  At Woodland Christian, Adam was named 1^st Team All-League his junior and senior years and named league MVP his senior year. Adam went on to pitch for two years at College of the Siskiyous.

For the 2009 baseball season, Adam was the head freshman baseball coach at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, CA. He was also a co-head coach for the Rio Americano High School baseball summer program.

For the upcoming season, Coach Jason Hawkins has given Adam the opportunity to work with the pitching staff at Oxy that looks to improve on last year's numbers. 

Off the field, Adam is a substitute teacher for Options for Youth Charter School in the San Gabriel Valley. He currently lives in Monrovia, CA.

Playing Experience:

College of the Siskiyous: (2002-2004)  
Woodland Christian High School: (1998-2002)

Coaching Experience:

Rio Americano High School: Head Freshman Coach. (2008-2009)

Rio Americano High School: Co-head Coach Summer Program. (2009)

Occidental College: Pitching Coach. (2009-Present)