Ronald George Polk was born on January 12,1944 and is an American professional coach in NCAA Division I college baseball.
15 Facts About Ron Polk
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Ron Polk's teams won five SEC championships and five SEC tournament championships.
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Ron Polk's teams participated in the NCAA tournament twenty-three times, and reached the College World Series eight times.
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Ron Polk coached 35 All-Americans and 76 All-Southeastern Conference players.
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Ron Polk is one of only three coaches in college baseball history to coach at three different schools that have played in the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Ron Polk coached teams that played in Omaha over a period of five decades including as an assistant coach at the University of Arizona in 1966.
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Ron Polk is a member of the following Six Halls of Fame; Georgia Southern University Hall of fame.
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Ron Polk is a Former President of the American Baseball Coaches Association.
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Coach Ron Polk has completed seven tours on the USA National baseball team coaching staff serving as the head coach two times and as an assistant five times.
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Ron Polk has coached in the Olympic Games two times once Seoul, South Korea in 1988 when the team won the gold medal and the other in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996 when the team won the Bronze medal.
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Ron Polk authored The Baseball Playbook, the leading textbook for baseball in college, and coauthored The Baseball-Softball Playbook with Donna Lopiano.
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Ron Polk has served as an assistant coach at Arizona, and New Mexico.
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In July 2008, Ron Polk was announced as a volunteer assistant coach for the University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazers baseball squad.
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In 2016 Coach Ron Polk coached in the Cape Cod Baseball League as an assistant coach with the Hyannis Harbor Hawks baseball team.
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In May 2020, Mississippi State University announced that Ron Polk would be returning to the university as the Special Assistant to the Athletic Director.