July 6, 2001
LAS VEGAS - Jim Schlossnagle, one of college baseball's top assistants, has been selected to take over the UNLV program, UNLV Athletics Director Charles Cavagnaro announced Friday.
The fifth head coach in Hustlin' Rebel history, Schlossnagle comes to UNLV following an eight-year stint at Tulane as associate head coach and recruiting coordinator for the Green Wave.
"First and foremost I want to personally thank the selection committee for a job well done," Cavagnaro said. "It is very obvious that the time and effort spent during this process brought forward an excellent pool of candidates.
"Coach Schlossnagle brings a wealth of collegiate coaching experience as well as being one of the best recruiters in the country. It will certainly be an exciting time for UNLV baseball. Schlossnagle is an excellent coach and we look forward to the upcoming season."
"I'm tremendously excited to continue a great tradition at UNLV," Schlossnagle said. "I look forward to making UNLV a great option for the best players in the city of Las Vegas and the state of Nevada. I also am excited to engrain my family and our program into the local community and look forward to their support."
Schlossnagle joined the Tulane program in August of 1993 and has been an integral part of the Green Wave's success, helping Tulane to five NCAA Regional appearances during his tenure.
According to the January 2001 issue of Baseball America, Schlossnagle was one of the top-10 assistant coaches who "looked like one of the best candidates to take a head coaching position with a major program."
On the field, Schlossnagle served as the pitching coach for the Green Wave. In 2000, Sports Illustrated ranked Tulane's pitching staff in the top five among Division I programs.
The nation's winningest team in 2001, Tulane finished the season with a 56-13 overall record and 21-6 in Conference USA. The Green Wave defeated defending national champion LSU 7-1 to win the New Orleans Super Regional and advance to the College World Series for the first time in school history where it eliminated Nebraska before losing to Stanford and Cal-State Fullerton.
Since 1994, Tulane's baseball program has ranked first or second in Conference USA in earned run average and has placed at least one pitcher on the all-conference team seven times. In the same time period, 18 Tulane pitchers have signed professional baseball contracts.
Schlossnagle served as the Green Wave recruiting coordinator for the last five years and has garnered three nationally ranked recruiting classes which have helped produce two 48-win seasons and a number one NCAA Regional seed.
Prior to arriving in New Orleans, Schlossnagle served as the pitching coach at Clemson in 1993. The Tigers finished that season with a 45-20 record, an Atlantic Coast Conference Championship and a second place finish in the NCAA Mideast Regional. Seven members of the '93 Clemson pitching staff were drafted into professional baseball.
Schlossnagle spent three seasons as an assistant at Elon (N.C.) College where he helped lead his alma mater to a 99-40 record, two South Atlantic Conference Championships, a District 26 title and an Area 7 Regional appearance.
In 1990, the Fightin' Christians recorded a school-record 40 wins and ranked second nationally in ERA (2.41) under the guidance of Schlossnagle, who served as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator. In 1991, Schlossnagle's pitching staff ranked third nationally with a 2.85 ERA.
A native of Hagerstown, Md., Schlossnagle was a pitcher on the 1989 Elon squad that finished 39-7 and appeared in the NAIA World Series. He graduated magna cum laude from Elon with a bachelor's degree in physical education and earned his master's of education in human performance and health promotion from the University of New Orleans in 1995.
Schlossnagle and his wife, Kami, have a 2-year-old son, Jackson Lambert, and a newborn daughter, Kathleen Grace.
UNLV COACHING HISTORYYear Coach Record1960-66 Chub Drakulich records incomplete1967-73 Bob Doering 158-127-3 (.554)1974-96 Fred Dallimore 794-558-2 (.587)1997-01 Rod Soesbe 129-155 (.454)Present Jim Schlossnagle
JIM SCHLOSSNAGLE'S CAREERYear School1990-92 Elon College1993 Clemson1994-01 TulanePresent UNLV
