Tulane Hires Jewett As Coach

Travis Jewett, the hitting coach and recruiting coordinator responsible for two No. 1 recruit classes at Vanderbilt the past four seasons, was introduced Tuesday as Tulane’s new head coach.

Jewett helped Vanderbilt reach the College World Series in each of his first three seasons and win the national championship in 2014. His recruiting classes all ranked in the top 25, and his 2012 and 2015 classes ranked No. 1 in the country.

At Tulane, Jewett will replace David Pierce, who was the Green Wave’s coach the past two years before being hired by Texas last month. Tulane went 41-21 and won the American Athletic Conference this season, its first conference championship since winning Conference USA in 2005.

Jewett will now be charged with helping Tulane take the next step of advancing past regionals for the first time since 2005. He has had success throughout his coaching career, which began at Tacoma (Wash.) CC  in 1994. After a season as an assistant, he spent two years as head coach, followed by two years as the coach at Edmonds (Wash.) CC.

Since 1999, Jewett has been an assistant coach at the Division I level, beginning with three seasons at Gonzaga. He left Gonzaga following the 2011 season for Washington State, his alma mater. That move began an 11-year run as an assistant coach in the Pac-12 Conference. He also coached at Washington and Arizona State.

Jewett becomes the third assistant coach in Tim Corbin’s 14-year tenure as Vanderbilt coach to become a head coach, joining Michigan’s Erik Bakich (who originally left for Maryland) and Oklahoma State’s Josh Holliday. All three were recruiting coordinators under Corbin, while former pitching coach Derek Johnson left to become the Cubs pitching coordinator in 2012 and is now in his first season as the Brewers pitching coach. Scott Brown, who replaced Johnson as pitching coach, remains at Vanderbilt.

2016 COACHING CHANGES
School	Departures	Arrivals
Alabama	Mitch Gaspard	Greg Goff
Alabama State	Mervyl Melendez	Jose Vazquez
Appalachian State	Billy Jones	Kermit Smith
Army	Matt Reid	Jim Foster
Butler	Steve Farley	Dave Schrage
Central Florida	Terry Rooney	Greg Lovelady
Florida International	Turtle Thomas	Mervyl Melendez
Furman	Ron Smith	Brett Harker
Jacksonville	Tim Montez	Chris Hayes
Kentucky	Gary Henderson	Nick Mingione
Lamar	Jim Gilligan (ret.)	Will Davis
Liberty	Jim Toman
Louisiana Tech	Greg Goff	Lane Burroughs
Missouri	Tim Jamieson	Steve Bieser
Nebraska-Omaha	Bob Herold
Northwestern State	Lane Burroughs	Bobby Barbier
Oakland	John Musachio	Jacke Healey, Colin Kaline
Purdue	Doug Schreiber	Mark Wasikowski
San Jose State	Dave Nakama	Jason Hawkins
South Dakota State	Dave Schrage
SIU-Edwardsville	Tony Stoecklin	Sean Lyons
Southeast Missouri State	Steve Bieser
Texas	Augie Garrido	David Pierce
Tulane	David Pierce	Travis Jewett
Villanova	Joe Godri	Kevin Mulvey
Wright State	Greg Lovelady	Jeff Mercer
Youngstown State	Steve Gillispie	Dan Bertolini