March 25, 2014

LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - UNLV baseball (16-7/9-3 Mountain West) head coach Tim Chambers will enter the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame as a part of the 2014 class, which will be inducted on May 30 at the Orleans Arena.

Chambers, who has been the skipper of UNLV baseball since 2010, has coached in Las Vegas for more than 25 years at the high school level, junior college level and now at the Division I college level.

"It was humbling," Chambers told the Las Vegas Sun. "You usually go into those things at the end of your career, and I feel like we have another 20 years left."

Chambers got his start in coaching at Bishop Gorman High School in 1991 and coached the Gaels for nine seasons. He helped Bishop Gorman reach the playoff for the first time in nearly four decades and won six straight Sunset championships. He also coached the Las Vegas Knights to the American Legion World Series.

He then started the baseball program at the College of Southern Nevada in 1999, which was the state's first junior college athletic team, and led CSN to a national championship in 2003. In his last season with the Coyotes in 2010, he led CSN to another Junior College World Series appearance and coached Bryce Harper who went on to be the No. 1 overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft.

Since taking over the UNLV program in 2010, Chambers became the fastest Rebel coach to reach 100 wins, doing it in 176 games. He entered the year with a 55.8 winning percentage, which ranked second in program history after three years.

"I've been so fortunate to be able to coach in one city and and be able to do it at three levels," Chambers told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "But it's not just about baseball. It's about the relationships you form with the players and the people you work with."

Joining Chambers in the 2014 class will be former UNLV golfer Chris Riley, motocross star Carey Hart, drag racing team owner Ken Black and the Herbst family.