NC State Wolfpack

30  Jeff Waggoner
	Hometown: Alliance, Ohio Position: Assistant Coach Experience: 2nd Year Alma Mater: Cleveland State, 1998

Jeff Waggoner joined the NC State coaching staff in 2005 as an assistant coach and now is in his second season with the Wolfpack. Waggoner works with the NC State hitters and outfielders, and serves as first-base coach. He has a prominent role in the daily practice routine for the Pack, including planning the daily practice schedule and working hands-on with the Wolfpack players. Waggoner is also the camp director for the NC State Baseball Camps.

Waggoner spent the 2003 and 2004 seasons as an assistant coach at Kent State University, where he helped guide the Golden Flashes to a two-year record of 74-43. Waggoner worked extensively with Kent's position players, helping them to hone both their offensive and defensive skills, focusing especially on hitting. He was involved with the program's recruiting, field maintenance, summer camps, and fund raising. He also helped the baseball program with Kent State's academic support and strength-and-conditioning programs.

In Waggoner's two seasons at Kent, the Flashes won the Mid-American Conference's 2003 regular-season championship with an 18-4 conference mark, and followed that up by winning the MAC Tournament championship in 2004, advancing to the NCAA Tournament at South Bend, Ind. The Flashes had seven players drafted by Major League Baseball in Waggoner's two seasons with the program.

From 2001-02, Waggoner was an assistant coach at George Washington University, helping the Colonials to a 42-22 record and the Atlantic 10 championship in 2002. George Washington led the A-10 and was among the national leaders in both batting average (.326) and home runs (91) that season. The Colonials posted a two-year record of 80-45 during Waggoner's stay, and five GW players were selected in the MLB draft.

Before his two years at George Washington, Waggoner spent the 2000 season at the College of St. Rose in Albany, N.Y., helping St. Rose earn a berth in the Division II College World Series in 2000.

Waggoner has worked with two collegiate summer baseball teams. He was the head coach of the Arlington Senators of the Clark Griffith League in 2002, guiding the Senators to a 32-10 regular-season record, the Clark Griffith League championship, and the All-American Amateur Baseball Association (AAABA) national championship. Prior to that, he was an assistant coach for the Schenectady Mohawks of the New York Collegiate League in 1999 and 2000. Waggoner lettered two years as a catcher at Cleveland State University, graduating from CSU with a sport management degree in 1998. He played two years at Crowder College in Neosho, Mo., prior to transferring to Cleveland State.

Waggoner, 29, received his master's degree in educational psychology from St. Rose in 2001. He and his wife Rachelle, were married on August 27, 2004.