Paul Mainieri Announces Retirement from Coaching
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Posted: May 28, 2021 12:20 PM
Posted By: Akemi Briggs
BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri, who led the Tigers to the 2009 national championship and is No. 1 among active NCAA Division I coaches in career victories, announced Friday that he will retire at the end of the 2021 season.
Mainieri, whose collegiate career spans 39 seasons – including the past 15 years at LSU – will coach the Tigers in the 2021 NCAA Tournament should they receive a berth in the 64-team field. I have been the luckiest guy in the world to have lived out a childhood dream of becoming a college baseball coach, Mainieri said. I ve worked at four wonderful institutions, and it s been the honor of my life to have served as the head coach at LSU for 15 years. To have carried the torch of a program built by Skip Bertman, the greatest college baseball coach of all time, has been a tremendous privilege. It has alwa