Chris Prescott enters his fourth year with the Rebels, spending the 2020-21 season as a volunteer assistant coach before assuming his current role as the Director of Operations at UNLV after being added to the the program's staff by Rebel head coach Stan Stolte in June 2020.
Prescott comes to UNLV after spending his entire playing and coaching career in Southern California. Most recently, the Anaheim native served as an assistant coach the past two years (2019 and '20) at Orange Coast College (Costa Mesa) for the late John Altobelli and current Pirates' skipper Nate Johnson, respectively. At OCC, he served as the team's first base coach, created scouting reports and assisted with recruiting. Additionally, he worked with the outfielders as well as helped with hitting and base running.
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In his first year at OCC, the Pirates finished the 2019 campaign ranked No. 3 in Perfect Game's Junior College Top 25 backed by a 39-9 overall record, a CCCAA State Championship and an Orange Empire Conference title.
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Following his graduation from Canyon High School (Anaheim) in 2014, Prescott attended OCC and became a two-time all-conference performer during the 2015 and '16 seasons under Altobelli. As a freshman, he helped the Pirates to an overall mark of 30-17 and a state championship. In two years as a Pirate, he saw action in 72 games and batted .338 with 70 hits, 37 runs and 25 RBI.
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Prescott concluded his collegiate career at Cal State Fullerton and helped the Titans achieve postseason success with back-to-back NCAA Super Regional appearances and a trip to the 2017 College World Series. He played in 78 contests with the Big West club and collected 57 hits with 39 runs and 24 RBI. He graduated from Cal State Fullerton in 2018 with an undergraduate degree in communications and earned his masters degree in education from the University of Missouri in 2021.
