Jerry Meyers

Jerry Meyers (born March 8, 1965) is the pitching coach for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team.

Meyers attended the Iowa State University from 1984-1987 before starting his coaching career as a graduate assistant at South Alabama. Later he was an assistant coach at Gulf Coast Community College, UNC-Wilmington, and Old Dominion. Prior to the 1996 season he joined the coaching staff at University of South Carolina as the pitching coach the under Ray Tanner.

Old Dominion

Meyers spent eight seasons at South Carolina before being named the head baseball coach at Old Dominion University after the 2004 college baseball succeeding Tony Guzzo. During his time at ODU Meyers compiled an overall record of 167-158 in six seasons. He was named the 2006 CAA Coach of the Year and in 2008 he was the pitching coach for Team USA.

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Old Dominion (CAA) (2005–2010)
2005	ODU	22-33	5-19	9(9)
2006	ODU	39-17	21-9	2(11)
2007	ODU	35-24	18-11	2(11)
2008	ODU	25-27	14-14	5(11)
2009	ODU	22-27	13-11	4(11)
2010	ODU	24-30	11-13	6(11)
ODU:		167-158	82-77
Total:		167-158
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

Second Stint at South Carolina

After six seasons Meyers left Old Dominion for USC in 2010 where he now coaches pitchers again.

Jerry Meyers coached some of the best college pitchers at South Carolina, including 2000 Golden Spikes Award winner Kip Bouknight. One common theme for the successful Gamecock pitching staffs under his leadership was the presence of a dominating closer.

Two of these closers rank in the top 10 all-time in single season saves, with one more being in the top 15.

Personal

Meyers and his wife Christina have two daughters, Jaye Riley and Audrey Reese.

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Old Dominion Monarchs head baseball coaches

Tommy Scott (1931–1939)
No team (1940)
George Gregory (1941–1942)
Scrap Chandler (1943–1944)
No team (1945)
Scrap Chandler (1946)
Everett Tolson (1947)
Jack Callahan (1948)
Bud Metheny (1949–1969)
Jim Brady # (1970)
Bud Metheny (1971–1980)
Mark Newman (1981–1989)
Pat McMahon (1990–1994)
Tony Guzzo (1995–2004)
Jerry Meyers (2005–2010)
Nate Goulet # (2011)
Chris Finwood (2012– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

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