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Tom Sheridan, the only baseball coach the University of Mary Washington has ever known, is leaving to become the associate head coach at Division I George Washington University.
George Washington fired head coach Steve Mrowka in May after a 20–35 season, its seventh-straight sub-.500 record. The school plans to name a new head coach in the fall, so Sheridan is essentially the Colonials’ interim head coach.
Sheridan, 56, called the new job “a great opportunity for me.” But citing the “uniqueness of the situation,” he declined further comment aside from a statement issued by the school.
A G.W. athletic spokesman declined to say whether Sheridan is a candidate for the head coaching position.
A former assistant at James Madison University, Sheridan started the UMW program from scratch in 1988 and led the Eagles to a 588–287–3 record, with 22 winning seasons in 25 years. They finished 13–20–1 in 2012.
Sheridan’s teams won seven Capital Athletic Conference titles and earned 11 NCAA Division III tournament berths, most recently in 2010. He won or shared CAC coach of the year honors nine times.
Sheridan missed the second half of the 2000 season with an unspecified medical condition but returned in 2001. He also had served as UMW’s assistant athletic director for compliance since 1998.
“While we are sad to see coach Sheridan go, we are very pleased that he has earned this outstanding opportunity at George Washington,” new UMW athletic director Ken Tyler said in a statement issued by the school.
“Coach Sheridan literally built the UMW baseball program from scratch, and, over the last 25 years, has turned it into a consistent winner on the conference, regional and national level. More importantly, he has made a real difference in the lives of the countless young men he has mentored and coached. We are grateful to coach Sheridan for his many positive contributions to Mary Washington and we wish him nothing but the best.”
UMW will begin a national search for Sheridan’s successor immediately.
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