Adcock At A Glance:

In nine remarkable seasons, Adcock turned CBU into conference power while at the same time putting the Lancers on the national map. And after an impressive 2012 season, he is prepared to take the Lancers into a new era as CBU heads towards the NCAA.

His career mark of 324-163-1 is the best in program history, and he is the only Lancer coach to win four conference championships (three GSAC and one PacWest), an NAIA National Championship Opening Round title and four conference coach of the year (three GSAC and one PacWest) honors. He has posted seven 30-win seasons and four 40-win seasons, and from 2004-08, he guided the Lancers to five straight postseason berths, something no other CBU baseball coach was able to accomplish.

All told, he has made the postseason eight of his nine years at the helm, including three straight national tournament appearances, which culminated in an National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) World Series title in 2012.

This past season, Adcock navigated another remarkable season, which was even more impressive in that the Lancers were no longer eligible for NAIA postseason, nor were they eligible for NCAA postseason as CBU was just in its second year of a three-year process towards membership in NCAA Division II.

Even still, the Lancers put together their third straight 40-win season, finished 43-13 and winning the Pacific West Conference championship by six games and clinching the title on the field of the defending conference champion Dixie State in the Lancers' first season in their new NCAA Division II home. CBU landed seven players on the All-PacWest team, swept the individual awards and had 14 players earn PacWest Academic honors. Not eligible for NCAA postseason, the Lancers participated in the NCCAA for the first time and went 5-1 at the NCCAA World Series in Mason, Ohio, winning the national championship while outscoring opponents 29-9 in the process.

On March 13, 2012, with a 5-4 win at Hawaii-Hilo, Adcock collected his 300th career victory, and by season's end the Lancers finished the season ranked No. 23 in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division II Top 25.

For his efforts, Adcock was named PacWest and NCCAA Coach of the Year.

In 2011, the Lancers won their second straight conference crown and posting a second straight 40-win season. For the second straight year, they advanced to the championship game of the NAIA National Championship Opening Round and they swept the conference's Player, Pitcher and Coach of the Year honors.

They spent the entire season ranked in the NAIA's Top 25, never falling below No. 9 and reaching as high as No. 3. For the second straight year, they also had an NAIA All-American as two-time GSAC Player of the Year Brian Sharp was named to the second team.

And if that weren't enough, the Lancers had a program-best four players--Taylor Siemens (18th round-Arizona Diamondbacks), Sharp (24th round-Pittsburgh Pirates), Sharif Othman (32nd round-Florida Marlins) and Drew Madrigal (35th round-St. Louis Cardinals)--drafted in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft.

Over the course of the 2010 and 2011 seasons, the Lancers were a combined 92-31.

After missing the playoffs for the first time in his career in 2009, Adcock and the Lancers returned with a vengeance in 2010. With a team that included just two seniors, the Lancers won a school-record 49 games (49-15) and put together one of the most impressive runs in GSAC history, winning the conference title with a 30-6 mark and by a whopping seven games. They won all but one four-game series, and that one they split with ninth-ranked Fresno Pacific.

It didn't stop there.

When the the Lancers entered the NAIA Top 25 at No. 5 in the first poll of the season, they stayed in the top five the rest of the year, climbing as high as No. 3. They hosted and won both the GSAC Tournament and the NAIA National Championship Opening Round, clinching the program's first NAIA World Series berth since 1997 and just second in program history. The Lancers eventually finished seventh at the World Series.

For the second time in program history, the Lancers had seven All-GSAC honors, and they swept the GSAC Player, Pitcher and Coach of the Year honors. Othman was named NAIA All-American second team, and Garrett Rau earned Rawlings-NAIA Gold Glove honors. And to put icing on the cake, Rau was selected in the 12th round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft by the Boston Red Sox.

Eight players—Siemens, Sharp, Othman, Madrigal, Rau, Aaron Hartsock, Josh Banda and Aaron Seuss—have been drafted in the MLB Amateur Draft, and six former Lancers are currently playing professionally. He has coached five NAIA All-Americans (Seuss twice, Robert Lundy, Othman and Sharp), 15 NAIA Scholar Athletes and 33 All-GSAC honorees, including a program-record seven in 2006 and 2010. Twenty-nine times in his eight-year career, he has had a player earn GSAC Pitcher or Player of the Week honors.

In 2009, the Lancers fielded a team with 17 underclassmen and finished 27-23 overall, 16-20 GSAC and missed the playoffs for the first time in five seasons but had four wins against ranked teams. The Lancers did finish second in the GSAC in hitting (.320) and were third with a 4.64 team ERA and second with 377 strikeouts. Two players--Othman and Cole Bullard--were named All-GSAC.

In 2008, the Lancers posted their third straight 30-win season, finishing 30-22 overall and they made their fifth straight postseason berth, a program-record. Senior Steve Goins became the first player in program history to earn four straight All-GSAC honors and six players earned NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors.

In 2007, Adcock led the Lancers to a 35-18 mark, finishing the regular-season with wins in 19 of their final 24 games. It was the first time in program history that the Lancers had consecutive 30-win seasons in addition to their fourth straight playoff appearance. The Lancers finished second in the GSAC (23-13), their third straight top two finish. He picked up his 100th career win with a 9-3 win over No. 7 Lubbock Christian (Texas) on Jan. 26, 2007 and later led the Lancers to a 4-3 win over No. 1 and eventual national champion Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) (April 4, 2007).

On March 28, 2007, with a 17-0 win over Biola, Adcock picked up his 118th career win at CBU, becoming CBU’s all-time winningest coach and passing John Martin, whom Adcock assisted in 1995.

The 2006 season was a season like none other in the history of the program. While the Lancers fell just short of what would have been the program’s second trip ever to the NAIA World Series, they did win a school-record 43 games, five more than the previous best total of 38 in 1997. The Lancers finished 43-9 and also won just their second GSAC title, going a program-best 27-5 in the process, winning the conference by a whopping five games.

The Lancers also earned their highest national ranking, peaking at No. 2 and remaining in the top five for all of two polls—the preseason (No. 25) and final poll (12). CBU had both the GSAC’s Player (Seuss) and Pitcher (Hartsock) of the Year, both of whom were recruited by Adcock. As a result of the phenomenal record-breaking campaign, Adcock was named GSAC and NAIA Region II Coach of the Year for the first time, becoming just the second coach in program history to earn the conference honor and first to earn the regional honor.

In 2005, while the team finished 24-25, they did win 15 of their final 23 regular-season games to post a second place (18-12) finish in the GSAC’s South Division. For the first time since 1996-97, the Lancers earned their second straight regional playoff berth.

As a first-year coach in 2004, Adock guided the Lancers to a 30-22 overall mark as that team became the program’s third team ever to win at least 30 games. At 18-10, CBU won its most GSAC games since 1997, which was good for third place. The season then culminated in a surprising runner-up finish in the Region II Tournament as the Lancers came within one game of reaching the Super Regional. Four Lancers earned All-GSAC honors and three others were named NAIA All-American honorable mention.

Adcock’s first full-time coaching position was as an assistant at CBU for the 1995 season. Under the direction of Martin, that Lancer team went 29-20 and tied for second place in the GSAC with a 15-9 mark.

He has also had assistant coaching stints at UC Riverside (1996), Riverside CC (1997-98) as well as NCAA Division I members Purdue (1999-2000) and UCLA (2001-03). His mentors include some of the area’s top baseball coaches, including Jack Smitheran (UCR), Dennis Rogers (RCC) and Gary Adams (UCLA).

As the pitching coach at Purdue, his 2000 staff led the Big Ten in ERA (4.12). During his three seasons at UCLA, Adcock also served as co-recruiting coordinator. Both Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball ranked the Bruins’ 2003 recruiting class in the top 10.

In 1999 and 2000, Adcock served as head coach of the Kenai Peninsula Oilers and led the team to consecutive Alaskan Summer Baseball League championships. The Oilers finished second at the 1999 National Baseball Congress Tournament and fourth at the 2000 tournament. In two years, Adcock’s teams went 71-34, making him the all-time winningest coach in team history.

Adcock pitched at UCLA (1992 and 1993), RCC (1991) and UC Santa Barbara (1990). He posted 28 career victories with three saves. He was a two-year starter at UCLA and was once the Pacific-10 Conference Pitcher of the Week. At RCC, he was an All-Southern California and all-conference selection. At UCSB, he was the team’s Rookie of the Year.

Adcock graduated from UCLA in 1994 with a degree in sociology. He also earned a teaching credential in secondary social science from CBU in 1995 and a master’s degree in education from Azusa Pacific in 1996.

His brother, Joe, is CBU’s Director of Campus Life. His wife, Mandy (Huffman), is a CBU graduate. The Adcock’s reside in Riverside, and they have six-year-old son, Dalton, and a four-year-old daughter, Delaney.