The Speaker for our next meeting will be Elliott Avent, Head Baseball Coach at NC State. Avent, who is NC State’s all-time winningest coach with 998 victories (1,222 in his 35-year head coaching career), has taken the Wolfpack to the NCAA Tournament in 20 of the last 27 seasons and 15 of the last 19. Avent captured both ACC and National Coach of the Year honors in 2003 and was named USA Baseball’s College Coach of the Year in 2021.
In 2023, Avent reached another impressive milestone, notching his 1,200th career victory with a resounding 14-4 win at Miami on March 12. Avent became the 29th Division I coach to ever reach 1,200 career victories and concludes the 2023 season as one of just six active head coaches with more than 1,200 career wins. The 27th-year skipper led the Wolfpack back to the NCAA Tournament in 2023, finishing the season with a 36-21 record. Avent enters the 2024 campaign in Raleigh just two wins shy of 1,000 coaching victories at NC State.
Under Avent’s tutelage, the Wolfpack landed a league-best three players on the ACC All-Freshman Team (Dominic Fritton, Eli Serrano III and Cannon Peebles). Fritton and Peebles both also earned multiple Freshman All-American honors following their 2023 campaigns. Wolfpack catcher Jacob Cozart and NC State third baseman LuJames Groover III earned Second Team All-ACC and Third Team All-ACC accolades, respectively.
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2/7/24 – Tyler Parsons, General Manager, Durham Bulls
2/21/24 –Special Guest Speaker
3/6/24 – Guest Speaker