Washington baseball coach Meggs retires at 59

SEATTLE — Washington baseball coach Lindsay Meggs introduced his retirement Monday after main the Huskies for 13 years and to their solely School World Sequence look.

The 59-year-old Meggs received 932 video games in 29 years as a head coach. He received 317 video games and made three NCAA Match appearances in 13 seasons at Washington.

“This was a extremely troublesome resolution for me and for my household,” Meggs mentioned, “however we’ve got been enthusiastic about this for some time, and we simply really feel like now could be the precise time to retire.”

The Huskies ended the common season on a 12-game win streak however misplaced two straight within the Pac-12 Match to complete 30-26.

Meggs led this system to NCAA regionals in 2014 and 2016 after which to unprecedented heights in 2018. The Huskies swept via their regional in Conway, South Carolina and received a three-game tremendous regional at Cal State Fullerton to earn their first journey to the CWS, the place they went 0-2.

Meggs was instrumental within the growth of Husky Ballpark, which opened in 2014, and the development of an indoor follow and hitting facility.

Meggs coached at Chico State from 1994-2006 and received Division II nationwide titles in 1997 and 1999. He coached Indiana State three seasons earlier than he took the Washington job.