Ty Harrington

Ty Lee Harrington (born July 16, 1964) is an American former baseball player and coach. He served as the head baseball coach at Texas State University from 2000 through the 2019 season. Under Harrington, the Texas State Bobcats to three NCAA tournament appearances, two Southland Conference baseball tournament championships, and three Southland Conference baseball regular season championships. Harrington is the most victorious coach in program history.

Early life and education Ty Lee Harrington was born in Pasadena, Texas, where his parents Lee Pickens Harrington and Elaine Cezeaux Harrington were teachers in the local school district. The family later moved to Waco, Texas, when Lee became an assistant coach at Baylor. Ty Harrington graduated from Midway High School in Waco in 1983.

Harrington attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he lettered with Texas Longhorns baseball in 1986 and 1987 as an infielder under head coach Cliff Gustafson. Harrington was a team captain as a senior on the 1987 team that made the College World Series.

Coaching career

Early career (1988–1999)

From 1988 to 1991, Harrington was a student assistant and later graduate assistant coach at Texas. Harrington then coached at Blinn College in 1999, going 36–22 in his lone season. Harrington was hired after previous head coach Howard Bushong resigned to coach with the San Diego Padres organization. Having been a member of the Southland Conference until the 2012 season, Texas State changed conferences twice, first to the Western Athletic Conference in 2013 then the Sun Belt Conference from 2014 on.

On April 23, 2011, he claimed his 400th career win over Northwestern State. During the 2012 season, Harrington led the team to their highest ever national ranking, at number 20 in the Baseball America poll on March 12. He has also developed three All-Americans, and numerous conference players of the year.

On June 20, 2019, Harrington retired from coaching baseball. Under Harrington, Texas State appeared in three NCAA tournaments in 2000, 2009, and 2011 and won four conference titles, with three straight Southland regular season titles from 2009 to 2011 and the Sun Belt West Division title in 2019. Harrington was the Southland Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2011 and Sun Belt Coach of the Year in 2019.

Post-coaching career

After retiring from baseball coaching, Harrington joined the investor relations team at San Antonio-based real estate development firm Casey Development.

Personal life

Harrington is married to Leila Baggett and has two children with her. | postseason = NCAA Regional