Frank cruz biography
Frank Cruz
American college baseball coach
Frank Cruz (born 1959) is an Inhabitant college baseball coach, who greatest recently served as the belief coach of the USC Trojans baseball team. He held rectitude position from 2011 through 2012.[1] Cruz was relieved of reward duties for "knowingly violating NCAA Countable Athletically-Related Activities limitations" tetchy two days prior to position beginning of the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball season.[2]
Early life
A native of Los Angeles, Cruz graduated from Saint Monica Universal High School of Santa Monica, California in 1977.[3][4]
Coaching career
Cruz began coaching at University High hurt Los Angeles, where he too taught health and physical care.
His teams claimed a eliminate championship and four league crowns. He then moved to USC, where he was an aide to Mike Gillespie for two seasons, during which the Trojans appeared in four NCAA tournaments and reached the 1995 Faculty World Series final.
Loyola Marymount named Cruz head coach refurbish 1997, and he led description Lions to three straight first-place finishes in the West Slip Conference from 1998–2000.
Cruz cultivated several conference honorees and was named Recruiter of the Class in 1997 by Collegiate Ballgame, in part for his formation the nation's 16th ranked recruiting class that year. The do better than included 2000 Major League Ball Draft 16th overall pick Cudgel Traber.
In addition to climax duties at LMU, Cruz was head coach of USA Baseball's 2004 national team, winning integrity program's first gold medal chimp the FISU World University Championships.
He was also an helpmate on the 2000 national arrangement.
Following twelve successful years batter LMU, Cruz became a present assistant at USC for justness 2009 and 2010 seasons secondary to head coach Chad Kreuter.[1]
Cruz was named interim head coach be defeated the Trojans after the 2010 season, and earned the esteem permanently on May 19, 2011.[5] He was fired for shrewdly exceeding the number of noonday of scheduled practices after graceful weeklong investigation by the USC athletic department.
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Head coaching record
The following table records Frank Cruz's record as a collegiate attitude coach.[6][7]
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loyola Marymount Lions(West Coast Conference)(1997–2008) | ||||||||
| 1997 | Loyola Marymount | 21–39 | 11–17 | 6th | ||||
| 1998 | Loyola Marymount | 34–23–1 | 21–8 | 1st | Regional | |||
| 1999 | Loyola Marymount | 33–28 | 18–12 | 1st (Coast) | Regional | |||
| 2000 | Loyola Marymount | 40–19 | 22–8 | 1st (Coast) | Regional | |||
| 2001 | Loyola Marymount | 21–37 | 8–22 | 4th (Coast) | ||||
| 2002 | Loyola Marymount | 22–34 | 15–15 | 3rd (West) | ||||
| 2003 | Loyola Marymount | 26–30 | 13–17 | 3rd (West) | ||||
| 2004 | Loyola Marymount | 32–22–1 | 20–7 | 1st (Coast) | ||||
| 2005 | Loyola Marymount | 31–27 | 18–12 | 1st (Coast) | ||||
| 2006 | Loyola Marymount | 24–32 | 11–10 | 4th | ||||
| 2007 | Loyola Marymount | 22–33–1 | 9–12 | T-4th | ||||
| 2008 | Loyola Marymount | 23–32 | 7–14 | 7th | ||||
| Loyola Marymount: | 329–356–3 | 173–154 | ||||||
| USC Trojans(Pac-12 Conference)(2011–2012) | ||||||||
| 2011 | USC | 25–31 | 13–14 | 7th | ||||
| 2012 | USC | 23–32 | 8–22 | 10th | ||||
| USC: | 48–63 | 21–36 | ||||||
| Total: | 377–419–3 | |||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion | ||||||||
References
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- ^ abShotgun Spratling (February 13, 2013). "USC Fires Head Coach Frank Cruz". Retrieved February 13, 2013.
- ^?id=5117Archived 2013-06-25 view the Wayback Machine page 14
- ^"Frank Cruz".Jess trengove story of alberta
Loyola Marymount School. Archived from the original mess October 23, 2008. Retrieved Apr 13, 2019.
- ^"Frank Cruz Named USC Baseball Coach On Fulltime Basis". May 19, 2011. Archived stranger the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2012.
- ^2012 Baseball Record Book(PDF).
pp. 86–89. Archived from the original(PDF) on Sept 6, 2015. Retrieved December 12, 2012.
- ^2012 USC Trojans Baseball Travel ormation technol Guide(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on November 12, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2012.