Danny Price is a former college baseball coach and former player. He was the head coach of the Florida International University (FIU) baseball team, a position that he held from 1980 until May 2007.[1] During that span, he recorded a thousand coaching victories, reaching that milestone on March 10, 2005.[2] He was then head coach at Miami Dade College from 2011 until his retirement in 2019, after which he planned to engage in charitable work.[3]
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Miami Dade College |
| Conference | Southern |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | North Carolina, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Florida International University |
| Playing career | |
| 1973–1974 | FIU |
| Position(s) | Outfielder |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1976–1979 | FIU (asst) |
| 1980–2007 | FIU |
| 2011–present | Miami Dade College |
| Head coaching record | |
| Tournaments | NCAA DI: 7–14 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
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Price, the son of a sharecropper born in North Carolina, attended FIU and played on its baseball team as a student in 1973–74. He made the first hit for FIU, which had opened its doors a year before. He graduated in 1974, and returned as a hitting instructor in 1976.
Former FIU baseball players coached by Price include Major League Baseball star Mike Lowell, and over one hundred other students signed to play professional baseball with major and minor league teams.
At FIU, he was named TAAC Coach of the Year three times.
In 2011, Price was named the head coach at Miami Dade College.[4]
Head coaching record
edit| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIU Panthers (Independent) (1980–1990) | |||||||||
| 1980 | FIU | 40–15 | NCAA World Series | ||||||
| 1981 | FIU | 41–17 | |||||||
| 1982 | FIU | 51–12 | NCAA Regional | ||||||
| 1983 | FIU | 35–22 | |||||||
| 1984 | FIU | 37–26 | |||||||
| 1985 | FIU | 37–21 | |||||||
| 1986 | FIU | 41–18 | |||||||
| 1987 | FIU | 40–20 | |||||||
| 1988 | FIU | 40–19 | |||||||
| 1989 | FIU | 39–21 | |||||||
| 1990 | FIU | 40–20 | |||||||
| FIU: | 441–221 | ||||||||
| FIU Panthers (Trans America Athletic Conference) (1991–1998) | |||||||||
| 1991 | FIU | 43–23 | 11–7 | 2nd (East) | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 1992 | FIU | 36–23 | 11–5 | T-1st (East) | |||||
| 1993 | FIU | 27–29 | 7–11 | 4th (East) | |||||
| 1994 | FIU | 38–21 | 12–6 | 1st (East) | |||||
| 1995 | FIU | 50–11 | 27–3 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 1996 | FIU | 31–24 | 6–12 | 4th (South) | |||||
| 1997 | FIU | 42–21 | 10–8 | 1st (South) | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 1998 | FIU | 41–24 | 13–5 | 1st (South) | |||||
| FIU: | 308–176 | 97–57 | |||||||
| FIU Panthers (Sun Belt Conference) (1999–2007) | |||||||||
| 1999 | FIU | 45–18 | 17–16 | 4th | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2000 | FIU | 42–20 | 15–12 | 3rd | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2001 | FIU | 43–21 | 16–11 | 2nd | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2002 | FIU | 42–19 | 15–13 | 4th | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2003 | FIU | 37–22 | 12–12 | 5th | |||||
| 2004 | FIU | 29–33 | 5–12 | 5th | |||||
| 2005[5] | FIU | 38–21 | 14–10 | 3rd | |||||
| 2006 | FIU | 36–24 | 12–12 | 4th | |||||
| 2007 | FIU | 26–29 | 12–17 | 10th | |||||
| FIU: | 284–207 | 104–115 | |||||||
| Total: | 1,033–604 | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
edit- ^ Doug Kroll (May 20, 2007). "FIU Fires Danny Price". www.slog.cstv.com. CSTV Networks, Inc. Archived from the original on November 16, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
- ^ "Baseball Drops Season Opener 10–5 at Florida International". CSTV. 10 March 2005. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
- ^ "Danny Price steps down from the Sharks Helm". Miami Dade College. June 6, 2019.
- ^ Arthur Lantigua (April 13, 2017). "Price Vies For Winning On And Off The Field". www.mdcthereporter.com. The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
- ^ Craig Barnes , "Gonzalez anchors strengthened bullpen", South Florida Sun Sentinel (January 28, 2006), p. 10C.
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