Kalamazoo College Athletics

Mike Ott was named Kalamazoo College's head baseball coach in June of 2012. The 2023 D3baseball.com Region 7 Coach of the Year is Kalamazoo's winningest coach with 225 career wins. Ott has led the Hornets to MIAA regular season and tournament championships and two NCAA Regionals.

Career at Kalamazoo College

• Named head coach on June 14, 2012
• Led Kalamazoo to the MIAA regular season championship in 2023, the program's first since 1927
• D3baseball.com Region 7 Coach of the Year (2023)
• Led the program to its first NCAA Regional appearances (2016, 2022)
• First NCAA Regional win in 2022 (8-7 in 10 innings over Mt. Aloysious)
• Two 30-win seasons, including the first in program history (2017)
• Seven 20-win seasons
• Became Kalamazoo's all-time winningest coach in 2022
• Won 200th game in 2023 (vs. Williams)
• Won 100th game in 2017 (vs. Hope)

Under Coach Ott

• Kalamazoo's first All-Region, All-American and Academic All-American in program history
• D3baseball.com National Rookie of the Year (Ryar Rinehart, 2023)
• Two MIAA MVP's (Ryar Rinehart, 2023; Ryan Orr, 2017)
• Regularly placed players on the national stage in some of the most prestigious summer collegiate leagues, including the Cape Cod League
• Multiple players earned all-star bids in summer collegiate leagues
• Four players played professionally after K
• MIAA Team GPA Award seven consecutive years (2017-23), an MIAA record
• Program recognized multiple times for its volunteer work in the community
• Broke most individual and team records

Previous Coaching Experience

• Kalamazoo Growlers Associate Head Coach/Pitching Coach (2014)
• Holland Christian High School Head Coach (2005-12)
  - Led the Maroons to conference championships (2005, 2008), district championships (2006, 2011), and the school's first regional championship and state quarterfinal appearance (2006)
  - Ranked in the state seven consecutive seasons, including the first No. 1 ranking (2007)
  - Program's first 30-win season (2011)
  - Six 20-win seasons
• Calvin College Assistant/Pitching Coach (2002-04)
• Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Assistant (2011-12)
• UNLV Assistant (2006-07) 

Playing Career

• Pitcher and two-year captain at Calvin College (1999-2002), helping the Knights to MIAA championships in 2000 and 2002
• Pitched professionally in the Frontier & Northern Leagues before retiring after two shoulder surgeries

Personal

• Graduated from Calvin College in 2002 with a degree in elementary education
• Earned a master's degree in athletic administration/sports studies from Western Michigan University in 2006
• Resides in Portage with his wife, Lynsey, and their children, Payton and Addison

Coach Ott's Record at Kalamazoo College

2023: 31-11
2022: 27-13
2021: 25-15
2020: 5-2
2019: 15-22
2018: 20-19
2017: 31-14
2016: 24-20-1
2015: 20-22
2014: 17-25
2013: 10-30

Total: 225-193-1