South Carolina baseball adds former Clemson coach to staff

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former Clemson coach Monte Lee will as soon as extra discover out what it’s like within the different dugout of the state’s greatest faculty baseball rivalry after he was employed as a South Carolina assistant.

Lee, who was fired by Clemson in Might after seven seasons in cost, will function Mark Kingston’s affiliate head coach and recruiting coordinator. The varsity introduced the hiring Thursday evening.

Lee will take over for Chad Caillat, who stepped away from this system for private causes.

It’s not the primary time Lee was a part of South Carolina’s employees. He was an assistant coach underneath now-athletic director Ray Tanner from 2003-2008 and helped the Gamecocks attain the School World Collection in 2003 and 2004.

Lee left in 2009 to turn out to be head coach on the School of Charleston. He joined Clemson in the summertime of 2015 and reached the NCAA Event in his first 4 seasons. However after the occasion was canceled because of COVID-19 in 2020, the Tigers missed out on the previous two NCAAs main Clemson to make a change.

Lee’s positive to listen to some jeers from Clemson followers when the staff’s play subsequent season, in what’s usually the second most carefully adopted sporting occasion between the rival faculties after their annual faculty soccer sport.

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