Mike Batesole
{{Short description|American baseball coach}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Mike Batesole
| image = Mike Batesole in 2017.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Batesole in 2017 at Falcon Baseball Field.
| contract =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|3|28}}
| birth_place = Anaheim, California, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater = California State University, Fullerton
| player_years1 = 1983–1985
| player_team1 = Oral Roberts
| player_positions = Third baseman
| coach_years1 = 1986–1987
| coach_team1 = Orange Coast (asst.)
| coach_years2 = 1991
| coach_team2 = Orange Coast (asst.)
| coach_years3 = 1993
| coach_team3 = Cypress (asst.)
| coach_years4 = 1994–1995
| coach_team4 = Cal State Northridge (asst.)
| coach_years5 = 1996–2002
| coach_team5 = Cal State Northrdge
| coach_years6 = 2003–2022
| coach_team6 = Fresno State
| overall_record = {{winpct|828|615|1|record=y}}
| tournament_record = NCAA: 18–12
| championships =
- College World Series (2008)
- WAC Western Division (1996)
- 7× WAC tournament (1996, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012)
- 6× WAC regular season (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011)
- Big West regular season (2002)
- 2× MW regular season (2016, 2019)
- MW tournament (2019)
| awards =
- 2× Collegiate Baseball National Coach of the Year (1998, 2008)
- Big West Coach of the Year (2002)
- 2× MW Coach of the Year (2016, 2019)
| coaching_records =
}}
Michael Harold Batesole (born March 28, 1964) is a former American college baseball coach. He previously served as coach of the Cal State Northridge Matadors (1996–2002) and the Fresno State Bulldogs (2003–2022).
Early life, playing career, and education
Born in Anaheim, California, Batesole graduated from Garden Grove High School in 1982 and began his college baseball career at Oral Roberts University.{{cite web|url=http://gobulldogs.com/coaches.aspx?rc=812&path=baseball|title=Mike Batesole|publisher=Fresno State|accessdate=May 6, 2018}} At Oral Roberts, Batesole started at third base from 1983 to 1985 and finished with a .285 batting average, 31 home runs, and 148 runs batted in.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-26-sp-39212-story.html|title=Batesole Is Man for CSUN Job|last=Fletcher|first=Jeff|work=Los Angeles Times|date=August 26, 1995|access-date=May 6, 2018}}
From 1985 to 1988, Batesole played minor league baseball in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=bateso001mic|title=Mike Batesole|work=baseball-reference|accessdate=May 6, 2018}} In 1990, Batesole completed his bachelor's degree in kinesiology at California State University, Fullerton. He later completed a master's degree in biomechanics from the same university. During his graduate studies, Batesole was an instructor in the Health and Physical Education Department.{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010418032450/http://www.gomatadors.com/batesolebio.html|archivedate=April 18, 2001|title=Mike Batesole|publisher=CSUN|accessdate=May 6, 2018|url=http://www.gomatadors.com/batesolebio.html|url-status=live}}
Coaching career
=Assistant coach (1986–1995)=
From 1986 to 1987 and again in 1991, Batesole was an assistant coach at Orange Coast College, a junior college in Costa Mesa, California. After completing his master's degree, Batesole was an assistant coach at another Southern California junior college in the 1993 season, Cypress College.
Batesole joined the coaching staff of Bill Kernen at Cal State Northridge in July 1993.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-20-sp-14923-story.html|title=CSUN Hires Assistant to Kernen|last=Hiserman|first=Mike|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 20, 1993|access-date=May 6, 2018}} As an assistant, Batesole specialized in coaching infielders and calling the offense.
=Cal State Northridge (1996–2002)=
Following the resignation of Kernen in August 1995, Cal State Northridge promoted Batesole to interim head coach. Batesole led Cal State Northridge to a 52–18 record, NCAA Regionals runner-up appearance, and first Western Athletic Conference (WAC) title in school history in his debut season of 1996.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-18-sp-25436-story.html|title=Northridge Stays With a Winner: Batesole|last=Haddad|first=Dana|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 18, 1996|access-date=May 6, 2018}} Cal State Northridge promoted Batesole long-term as head coach in July 1996.
Batesole led Cal State Northridge through its transition out of the WAC to independence (1997 to 2000) to the Big West Conference in 2001. In its first year of independence in 1997, Cal State Northridge went 42–20–1. After leading a team largely consisting of freshmen and junior college transfers to a 37–19 record in 1998, Batesole earned National Coach of the Year honors from Collegiate Baseball.
The Big West Coach of the Year in 2002, Batesole reached his 250th career win that season and led Cal State Northridge to a 41–17 season, its first Big West title, as well as an NCAA Regionals appearance.{{cite web|url=http://stats.ncaa.org/people/7028|title=NCAA Statistics: Mike Batesole|publisher=NCAA|accessdate=May 6, 2018}} In seven seasons from 1996 to 2002, Batesole led Cal State Northridge to a cumulative 256–158–1 record, the second most wins for a head coach in program history.
=Fresno State (2003–2022)=
On May 28, 2002, California State University, Fresno hired Batesole to be head coach of the Fresno State Bulldogs baseball team following the retirement of 34-year head coach Bob Bennett.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-29-sp-nwbox29-story.html|title=Northridge Coach Off to Fresno|last=Stephens|first=Eric|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 29, 2002|access-date=May 6, 2018}}{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20021222225838/http://gobulldogs.ocsn.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/052802aab.html|archivedate=December 22, 2002|title=Mike Batesole Named New Baseball Coach|publisher=Fresno State|date=May 28, 2002|url=http://www.gobulldogs.com/news/2002/5/28/Mike_Batesole_Named_New_Baseball_Coach.aspx|accessdate=May 6, 2018|url-status=live}}
Batesole led Fresno State to six WAC tournament titles: four straight from 2006 to 2009 and two more in 2011 and 2012, in addition to five WAC regular season titles: three straight from 2006 to 2008 and two more from 2010 to 2011. Fresno State moved from the WAC to Mountain West Conference (MW) beginning in the 2013 season. In 2016, Fresno State won the MW regular season title for its first championship in that conference, for which Batesole won MW Coach of the Year honors.
On December 8, 2022, Batesole retired from coaching.{{cite web |url=https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/college/mountain-west/fresno-state/article270608392.html |title=Fresno State baseball coach Batesole announces retirement |date=December 8, 2022 |publisher=Fresno Bee |website=www.fresnobee.com |access-date=January 22, 2023}}
==2008 national championship==
{{main|2008 Fresno State Bulldogs baseball team}}
In 2008, he coached Fresno State to their first College World Series appearance in seventeen years by defeating #3 Arizona State, and then defeating #6 Rice University, #2 University of North Carolina to advance to the championship, and then defeating #8 University of Georgia in the final two games in a best two-out-of-three championship series winning 19–10 in the second game, and 6–1 in the third game to win Fresno State their first NCAA Men's Championship.
Head coaching records
The following is a list of Batesole's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.{{cite web|title=2013 Big West Conference Baseball Record Book |url=http://www.bigwest.org/sports/baseball/info/records.pdf |work=BigWest.org |accessdate=May 6, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114053711/http://www.bigwest.org/sports/baseball/info/records.pdf |archivedate=January 14, 2014 }}{{Cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/mountainwest.sidearmsports.com/documents/2021/9/1/2022_Baseball_Record_Book.pdf|title=All-time standings|work=2022 Mountain West Baseball Record Book|year=2022|publisher=Mountain West Conference|pages=37–39|accessdate=May 28, 2022}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wacsports.com/pdf9/1542788.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=10100|title=2013 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Media Guide|year=2013|publisher=Western Athletic Conference|accessdate=May 28, 2022|pages=82–83|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116182530/http://www.wacsports.com/pdf9/1542788.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=10100|archivedate=January 16, 2014|url-status=dead}}
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Cal State Northridge Matadors
| conference= Western Athletic Conference
| startyear = 1996
| endyear = single
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 1996
| name = Cal State Northridge
| overall = 52–18
| conference = 21–9
| confstanding = 1st (West)
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Cal State Northridge Matadors
| conference= NCAA Division I independent
| startyear = 1997
| endyear = 2000
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1997
| name = Cal State Northridge
| overall = 42–20–1
| conference =
| confstanding =
| postseason =
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1998
| name = Cal State Northridge
| overall = 37–19
| conference =
| confstanding =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1999
| name = Cal State Northridge
| overall = 27–29
| conference =
| confstanding =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2000
| name = Cal State Northridge
| overall = 23–33
| conference =
| confstanding =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Cal State Northridge Matadors
| conference= Big West Conference
| startyear = 2001
| endyear = 2002
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2001
| name = Cal State Northridge
| overall = 34–22
| conference = 9–9
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2002
| name = Cal State Northridge
| overall = 41–17
| conference = 19–5
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record subtotal
| name = Cal State Northridge
| overall = {{winpct|256|158|1|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{winpct|49|23|record=y}}
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Fresno State Bulldogs
| conference= Western Athletic Conference
| startyear = 2003
| endyear = 2012
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2003
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 30–29
| conference = 14–16
| confstanding = 3rd
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2004
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 29–29
| conference = 17–12
| confstanding = 2nd
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2005
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 30–29
| conference = 16–14
| confstanding = 2nd
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2006
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 45–18
| conference = 18–6
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2007
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 38–29
| conference = 17–7
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = national
| season = 2008
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 47–31
| conference = 21–11
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series champions
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = conference tournament
| season = 2009
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 32–30
| conference = 12–12
| confstanding = T–3rd
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2010
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 38–25
| conference = 16–8
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2011
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 40–16
| conference = 17–7
| confstanding = T–1st
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = conference tournament
| season = 2012
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 31–28
| conference = 8–10
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Fresno State Bulldogs
| conference= Mountain West Conference
| startyear = 2013
| endyear = 2022
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2013
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 23–33
| conference = 14–16
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2014
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 28–29
| conference = 13–17
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2015
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 31–28
| conference = 18–12
| confstanding = 3rd
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2016
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 36–22
| conference = 21–9
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2017
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 35–24
| conference = 18–12
| confstanding = 3rd
| postseason =
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2018
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 30–27
| conference = 13–17
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2019
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 38–14–1
| conference = 20–8–1
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2020
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 9–7
| conference = 0–0
| confstanding =
| postseason = Season canceled due to COVID-19
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2021
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 20–25
| conference = 16–18
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2022
| name = Fresno State
| overall = 27–28
| conference = 15–15
| confstanding = T–4th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record subtotal
| name = Fresno State
| overall = {{winpct|599|485|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{winpct|148|121|record=y}}
}}
{{CBB yearly record end
| overall = {{winpct|855|643|1|record=y}}
}}
References
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External links
- [http://gobulldogs.com/coaches.aspx?rc=812&path=baseball Official bio]
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