Doug Williams won his 500th game as baseball coach at College of San Mateo baseball coach Thursday. The Bulldogs defeated host Mission College, 5-4, in Santa Clara in a Golden Gate Division (Coast Conference) contest to stay in contention for a ninth consecutive league title.
Williams now has 500 wins vs. only 202 losses in his 16 seasons at the CSM helm. He began the 2010 season with a 479-196 record. (See bio for Williams below.)
CSM (21-6, 14-4 Golden Gate Division) trails current leader Chabot (23-5, 15-2) by 1 ½ games and will play at Chabot in Hayward on Saturday at noon.
Schedule Note: Saturday’s game was originally scheduled for CSM. The first round meeting of the two teams was moved to CSM, however, due to wet field conditions in Hayward . San Mateo won that contest, 5-1. San Mateo will also play at Chabot the final week of the regular season, on April 29.
CSM, currently ranked No. 4 in Northern California, has four wins over other teams in the top ten this season, including No. 2 Chabot and No. 3 Sacramento (twice), plus No. 7 (formerly No. 1) Cosumnes River.
(Official CSM at Mission game box/report not yet available.)
Coach Doug Williams:
Doug Williams – Head Coach, 16th Year
Doug Williams, whose Bulldogs have averaged 32 wins per season since 1995, enters his sixteenth season as head coach in 2010
In 2009, Williams guided the Bulldogs to a 33-13 record, an eighth consecutive Coast Conference North Championship and a 14th trip to the Northern California State Playoffs. One of his most memorable experiences was when his first team at CSM claimed the 1995 Coast Conference National Division Championship. The Bulldogs posted a 38-11 record in Williams’ first season, setting a school single-season record for victories.
His fifteen-year record at CSM is 479-196 and he is a seven-time recipient of the Coast Conference Coach of the Year Award, most recently winning the award in 2009. During his tenure, 174 out of 183 players have transferred to four-year schools or signed professionally.
Williams played NCAA Division I baseball at UC Santa Barbara during the 1987-88 seasons. A native of nearby Belmont, Williams played the infield and pitched for Carlmont High School, from which he graduated in 1983. He began his Bulldog career as a player for the legendary John Noce during the 1984-86 seasons, including a redshirt year. In his last season at CSM, the Bulldogs won the championship of the former Golden Gate Conference, which was the school’s last title until Williams guided the Bulldogs to the 1995 crown.
Williams began his coaching career in 1990 at CSM as an assistant to Coach Noce, a position he held during the last three seasons of Noce’s 31-year tenure at the College. Williams also gained summer coaching experience in in a professional league in Perugia, Italy.
In 1993 Williams’ alma mater, Carlmont High School, sent out an emergency call for a varsity baseball coach to lead its defending section champion and Williams answered the call. He not only coached Carlmont to its second consecutive Central Coast Section Division II Championship, but he called the pitches as his staff hurled four consecutive shutouts during the playoffs- a feat never before or since accomplished since the tournament began in 1967.
Williams was hired as assistant coach and pitching coach at the University of San Francisco in 1994. He helped that team achieve its best season in many years. When the CSM job opened in the summer of 1994, Williams returned to the Bulldogs.
Williams holds a master’s degree from St. Mary’s College, having written a thesis entitled “A Three-Dimensional Biomechanical Analysis of Fastball and Fork-ball pitchers.” He was featured on the front page of an issue of Collegiate Baseball Magazine as a result of his ground-breaking thesis, which included a video and computer analysis of former Oakland A’s pitching star Dave Stewart.
Williams and his wife, Liliana, reside in Belmont.
Notable Players Coached by Doug Williams:
- Sean Wilson, All American (2009), scholarship to Gonzaga University
- Henry Wrigley, All Coast Conference (2005), Drafted (14th Round) and signed by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
- Mike Mooney, All American (2003), Northern California Big Stick Award (2003), signed with San Francisco Giants
- Scott Kirby, All American (2002), Coast Conference MVP (2002), Northern California Big Stick Award (2002), scholarship to Oklahoma State University
- Scott Feldman, All American (2002, 2003) 25-2, signed Texas Rangers, began major league pitching career in 2005
