Kevin O'Sullivan

Kevin Michael O'Sullivan (born December 27, 1968) is an American college baseball coach and former player. O'Sullivan is the current head coach of the Florida Gators baseball team of the University of Florida. O'Sullivan is best known for leading the Gators to the program's first College World Series national championship win in 2017. O'Sullivan also led the program to three consecutive appearances in the College World Series from 2010 to 2012 and four consecutive appearances from 2015 to 2018. He became the winningest coach in program history in 2021, surpassing Dave Fuller's 1975 record of 557 wins.

Early years

O'Sullivan was born December 27, 1968, in Goshen, New York. O'Sullivan attended Jupiter High School in Jupiter, Florida, and played high school baseball for the Jupiter Warriors. As a senior in 1987, he batted .438 with 17 RBIs and was an honorable-mention selection to the Florida Sportswriter's Association's Class 3A all-state team. As a junior, O'Sullivan was a starter on the Jensen Beach Post 126 team that won the 1986 American Legion World Series in Rapid City, South Dakota.

College career

O'Sullivan was a catcher during his college playing career. to help lead the Stars to the 1989 state tournament. As a senior, he was an All-ACC selection and was named to the 1991 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament All-Tournament Team. While serving as an assistant at FAU, O'Sullivan coached American Legion Post 271 in Jupiter, Florida, to the semifinals of the 1994 state tournament. In 1997, O'Sullivan managed the Bourne Braves, a collegiate summer baseball team in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League, and was named coach of the year. His Bourne team featured future major leaguer Mark Mulder. In 1998, O'Sullivan was named an assistant coach at Clemson University.

O'Sullivan accepted the baseball head coaching position at the University of Florida offered by athletics director Jeremy Foley on June 13, 2007, replacing Pat McMahon after the Gators failed to receive an NCAA tournament bid in either 2006 or 2007. Florida is O'Sullivan's first head coaching job; he is the twenty-first head coach in the history of the Gators baseball program. During his tenure at Clemson, twenty-nine of the pitchers he coached were selected in the MLB draft. In 2008, his first season as the Gators' skipper, the team finished 34–24 overall, 17–13 in SEC play, in second place in the SEC Eastern Division standings and third in the overall SEC standings. After winning the SEC tournament, O'Sullivan's Gators received the No. 2 seed in the 2011 NCAA tournament, and advanced to their second consecutive College World Series, ultimately finishing as the national runner-up.

O'Sullivan has also enjoyed recruiting success: his 2009 recruiting class was ranked No. 1 in the country by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper and Baseball America. It was the first time in Gators baseball history that a recruiting class was ranked No. 1.

Through O'Sullivan's first four regular seasons as the Gators' head coach, his Gators teams compiled the best conference win–loss record of 80–40 (.667), just ahead of the South Carolina Gamecocks (75–45) and the Vanderbilt Commodores (65–51). The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee also issued a public reprimand against O'Sullivan's behavior.

In late October 2025, he took a self-imposed leave of absence to address family matters. He officially returned to his head coaching duties on Dec. 17, 2025.

Minor League coaching In 1998, O'Sullivan served as an assistant coach for the Gulf Coast Twins (34-26), a Rookie League affiliate in Fort Myers, Florida.

Personal While coaching at Clemson, O'Sullivan married Victoria Diane Vought, a pediatric nurse and Florida State University graduate, in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. O'Sullivan has one daughter, Payton, born in December 2010, and son, Finn, born in September 2012.

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