Doug Little
Head Baseball Coach
304.788.6878
DALittle@mail.wvu.edu

In 2009, Coach Little will begin his twelfth year, ( 93-94, 00-present), as the Head Baseball Coach at Potomac State College of WVU.  His record in eleven seasons is a remarkable 371-142, including all eleven seasons of 30 or more wins.  He has been named the American Baseball Coaches Association Regional Coach of the Year nine times. In 2004, 2005 and 2006 Little was also named the NJCAA East District Coach of the year in leading the Catamounts to three straight trips to the Division I JUCO World Series in Grand Junction, Colorado.  Potomac State has won the NJCAA Region XX Baseball Championship nine out of eleven years that Little has been at the helm.

Little, a Parkersburg, WV native, spent five seasons (95-99), as the recruiting coordinator and number one assistant baseball coach at West Virginia University.  Little's recruiting efforts at WVU took shape in the form of three-straight 30 win seasons, including back-to-back BIG EAST Divisional titles in 1996 and 1997.  His recruiting efforts were recognized by Collegiate Baseball Magazine.

A tireless worker Little has championed the construction of a new baseball facility, Golden Park, which opened in the spring of 2002.  Along with the improvement of facilities, Little has also initiated successful summer and winter baseball camps, and the annual Catamount 100 Inning Marathon Game which has raised thousands of dollars toward improving the Catamounts schedule and equipment.

Little, a master recruiter works very closely with Potomac State's pitching staff, having produced five Region XX pitcher's of the year.  Little has also had countless players continue on to play at four year colleges, JUCO all-Americans, and numerous players drafted and signed by professional organizations. In 2005 Freshman pitcher Enrique Garcia, who went undrafted in high school, became a 17th round selection by the Chicago White Sox in the Major League Professional Draft.

In 2005 Little was named by the Mid-Atlantic Professional Scouting Bureau their Coach of the Year.

A 1984 graduate of Parkersburg High School Little played collegiately at Alderson-Broaddus College, where he was a two-time all WVIAC outfielder.  He earned a bachelor's degree from A-B in physical education and health, and master's degrees from Eastern Kentucky in physical education in 1989 and from West Virginia Wesleyan College in education in 1991.

Little is a 19-year member of the American Baseball Coaches Association, and is a Physical Education professor at Potomac State College.

Little's Record at Potomac State:

Year     Record     Results

1993     30-13         Region XX Champs/ JUCO World Series

1994     30-6           Region XX Champs/ JUCO World Series runners-up

2000     37-10         Region XX Champs/ Eastern District runners-up

2001     33-9           Region XX Champs/ Eastern District runners-up

2002     35-16         Region XX Champs/ Eastern District runners-up

2003     32-14         Region XX Runners-up

2004     31-22         Region XX Champs/ Eastern District Champs/ JUCO World Series

2005     33-14         Region XX Champs/ Eastern District Champs/ JUCO World Series

2006     41-15         Region XX Champs/ Eastern District Champs/ JUCO World Series

2007     32-13         Region XX Champs/ Eastern District runners-up

2008     37-10         Region XX Runners-up

Total:  371-142