Connor Dawson

{{Short description|American baseball coach (born 1993)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2021}}

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|team=Milwaukee Brewers

|position=Hitting Coach

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1993|9|15}}

|birth_place=Merriam, Kansas, U.S.

|number=70

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Connor Dawson is an American professional baseball hitting coach for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Career

Dawson graduated from Olathe North High School in Olathe, Kansas, in 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kshb.com/sports/olathe-north-grad-hired-as-a-milwaukee-brewers-hitting-coach|title = Olathe North grad hired as a Milwaukee Brewers hitting coach|date = November 12, 2021}} He played college baseball at Neosho County Community College, and transitioned into coaching. He coached a college prep baseball team and served as a hitting coach at St. Thomas Aquinas High School from 2015 to 2018. In 2019, he coached for Marshalltown Community College.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/mlb/brewers/2021/11/11/brewers-decide-hire-two-new-hitting-coaches-share-those-duties/6383868001/|title=Brewers hire Ozzie Timmons, Connor Dawson to share hitting coach duties in restructuring of that role}}

Dawson joined the Seattle Mariners organization as a minor league hitting coach in 2019. Following the 2021 season, the Milwaukee Brewers fired their major league hitting coach, Andy Haines, and hired Dawson and Ozzie Timmons to replace him.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/32608940/milwaukee-brewers-hire-ozzie-timmons-connor-dawson-hitting-coaches|title=Brewers hire two hitting coaches to assist offense|date=November 11, 2021}}

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