Mallernee named to coach VU

Scott Mallernee, a volunteer assistant at the University of Michigan

the last two seasons, has been named baseball coach at Vanguard

University, the school announced Monday.

Mallernee, 27, replaces Kevin Kasper, who resigned after nine

seasons.

Mallernee was a volunteer assistant coach in 2002 at the

University of Kansas and spent the 2001 season as an assistant at

Eastern Kentucky. He earned a master’s degree in education at

Mississippi State University, where he served as a baseball intern in

2000.

Mallernee played collegiately at Missouri Western (two years),

Oral Roberts (one) and Jefferson Community College in Missouri (one).

He caught for Missouri Western, where he was team captain and an

academic All-American in District VII as a senior.

He said he looks forward to his first head-coaching position.

“I am excited, honored, and humbled that Vanguard University has

offered me this opportunity to become the Lions baseball coach,”

Mallernee said in a school press release. “I look at this position as

an opportunity to develop a ministry and build a baseball program

that I envision can become a national contender.”

Mallernee takes over a Lion program that was 13-35, 6-22 in the

Golden State Athletic Conference in 2004.

“We had an extensive process in selecting Scott Mallernee as our

new baseball coach,” Bob Wilson, VU athletic director, said. “Scott

brings to our baseball program a renewed enthusiasm and intensity for

pursuing excellence, along with a strong commitment for the

development of Christian values and character. We feel fortunate to

have been able to attract a person with the baseball knowledge, work

ethic, communicative skills, and character of Scott Mallernee.”