Army Hires Foster As New Coach

Jim Foster, the head coach at Rhode Island for nine seasons and associate head coach at Boston College the past two years, was named head coach at Army on Thursday.

Athletic director Boo Corrigan said in a statement that Foster is a good fit for the Black Knights.

“Jim brings a wealth of winning experience,” Corrigan said. “His commitment to excellence while upholding a standard fits well with our dedication to duty, honor, country.  I am confident he will lead our baseball program to new levels of success and support our mission of developing leaders at West Point.”

Foster was the head coach at Rhode Island for nine seasons before moving to Boston College. At Army, he replaces Matt Reid, who led the Black Knights for the past four years.

Foster, 44, went 268-230-3 at Rhode Island, and is the winningest coach in program history. Under his direction, the Rams won at least 30 games for six straight seasons from 2008-13. At Boston College, Foster was pitching coach and helped coach Mike Gambino lead the Eagles this season to super regionals for the first time in school history. All-American righthander Justin Dunn, his star pupil, was drafted 19th overall by the Mets earlier this month.

The hiring of Foster will add a new dimension to the Army-Navy rivalry. Foster played at Providence for coach Paul Kostacopoulos, now the Navy coach.

2016 COACHING CHANGES
School	Departures	Arrivals
Alabama	Mitch Gaspard	Greg Goff
Appalachian State	Billy Jones
Army	Matt Reid	Jim Foster
Butler	Steve Farley
Florida International	Turtle Thomas
Furman	Ron Smith
Jacksonville	Tim Montez
Kentucky	Gary Henderson	Nick Mingione
Lamar	Jim Gilligan (ret.)	Will Davis
Louisiana Tech	Greg Goff	Lane Burroughs
Missouri	Tim Jamieson
Northwestern State	Lane Burroughs	Bobby Barbier
Purdue	Doug Schreiber
San Jose State	Dave Nakama
SIU-Edwardsville	Tony Stoecklin	Sean Lyons
Texas	Augie Garrido
Villanova	Joe Godri
Youngstown State	Steve Gillispie	Dan Bertolini