KNOXVILLE, TENN. (AP) - Tennessee has hired Cal State Fullerton coach Dave Serrano as the Volunteers’ new baseball head coach.
Joan Cronan, interim vice chancellor for athletics, announced the hiring Wednesday. Serrano will be introduced at a news conference Thursday.
Serrano, 46, returns to the program where he had his first Division I job as an assistant coach between 1995 and 1996. Serrano is one of 11 coaches to take two different programs to the College World Series and has a career record of 289-139-1 in seven seasons as a Division I coach.
He led UC Irvine to the 2007 CWS in his third season, and he led Cal State Fullerton to Omaha in 2009.
Serrano says it wasn’t an easy decision to leave Cal State Fullerton after his fourth season.
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