Todd
Asalon is entering his seventh season as the baseball head coach
at Northern Kentucky University. Asalon owns a 213-140-1 record
in six years as the Norse head coach and has led NKU to the NCAA
Division II Tournament three times.
Asalon guided
NKU to the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament championship
last season and an appearance in the NCAA Division II Tournament.
The Norse finished 42-20-1 overall, 36-11-1 in the GLVC. The 42
wins are the most for NKU since 1989, when the Norse finished 45-9.
Two years ago,
Asalon led NKU to a 31-26 record. It marked the fourth time in the
past five years that Asalon led the Norse to at least 30 victories.
In 2004, Asalon guided NKU to a 37-25 record and its second Great
Lakes Valley Conference Tournament championship in three years.
The Norse also advanced to the NCAA Division II Tournament and featured
GLVC Pitcher of the Year Derrik Moeves, who was drafted by the Pittsburgh
Pirates in 2005.
In 2002, Asalon led NKU to a 37-24 record and guided the Norse to
their first-ever GLVC Tournament championship. Asalon was named
GLVC Coach of the Year in 2002, and he guided the Norse to the NCAA
Division II Tournament for the first time since 1990.
Asalon, who spent six years as the baseball head coach at Thomas
More College prior to taking the NKU position in 2000, is a 1994
graduate of NKU. Asalon played baseball for the Norse from 1980-83,
and he was a three-year starter at catcher.
Asalon earned All-Region honors in 1981 and served as team captain
in both 1982 and '83.
He later was an assistant baseball coach for the Norse from 1991-94,
before taking the Thomas More coaching job in 1994.
“This is a great opportunity to go back and coach where I
played college baseball, and it is a dream come true to coach the
baseball program at Northern Kentucky University,” said Asalon,
who posted a 144-92 record in six years at Thomas More.
Asalon led Thomas More to a school-record 32 victories in 2000 and
its first-ever NCAA Division III Tournament appearance. He was named
Association of Mideast Colleges Conference Coach of the Year in
1995.
In addition to being the baseball coach, Asalon also served as Thomas
More's athletic director for two years. |