United States Air Force Academy Baseball

Mike Kazlausky enters his 16th year as Air Force baseball head coach in 2026. Kazlausky was named head baseball coach on June 2, 2011. Kazlausky retired from...

Drew LaComb enters his second season in the role of hitting coach and offensive coordinator for the Falcons in 2025, as he joined Air Force having previously served as the head coach of Regis University for four seasons. The Rangers were an impressive 87-77-1 during his tenure as skipper. In his second year in the Falcon dugout, LaComb guided to a 20-34 record including a 12-18 mark in Mountain West play. At the plate, the Birds produced 499 hits, scored 364 runs, and posted a team batting average of .282 while slugging .445. Under LaComb’s leadership, Zach Peters emerged as an offensive standout, earning Mountain West All-Conference honors after leading the team at the plate during the ’25 campaign: batting average (.347), runs (54), hits (68), slugging percentage (.602), doubles (20), home runs (8), and RBIs (48). During the 2024 season, LaComb helped lead the Falcons to an 18-12 Mountain West record resulting in the first Regular Season Championship title in program history and an overall record of 27-28. Under LaComb, the Falcon hitters posted a team batting average of .286 and a .468 slugging percentage. At the plate, Air Force hit 64 home runs, the sixth best in Falcon history, 105 doubles, 20 triples, and totaled 332 RBIs, while also drawing 224 walks. The Falcons saw five Mountain West All-Conference selections, including Co-Player of the Year, Jay Thomason, and Second Team honorees, Sam Kulasingam and Chase Spencer. Regis continued its steady progression under LaComb

Kyle Winkler, an accomplished hurler for the TCU Horned Frogs during his playing days, will enter his third season at Air Force after assuming the role of pitching coach for the Falcons in 2024. Winkler’s second season in the dugout concluded with a 20-34 overall mark, including a 12-18 record in Mountain West action. Under his leadership, the Falcon pitching staff collected 20 wins, paced by righty Patrick Davidson’s team-high five wins, while combining to bring in 374 strikeouts across the campaign. In conference play, the staff logged a team ERA of 7.78 with 203 punchouts thrown across 261.1 innings. During his first season as the Air Force pitching coach, Winkler helped propel the Falcons to their first Mountain West Regular Season Championship title in program history. The pitching staff accumulated 27 wins, 11 saves, and 368 strikeouts. Seungmin Shim led the Falcons on the mound and was tabbed the 2024 Mountain West Pitcher of the Year, just the third Air Force pitcher to garner the award. The lefty threw 65.1 Mountain West innings and totaled six wins, the most of any pitcher in the league. Across the season, Shim tallied 14 starts on the mound, managed at least 5.0 innings in 12 of those starts, and struck out 87 batters for an overall ERA of 3.22. The former right-hander helped oversee a Horned Frogs pitching staff that was instrumental in guiding TCU to a trip to the College World Series in 2023, finishing as a national semifinalist. Winkler, assigned the role of bu

Shaun Reed enters his second season with Air Force baseball as the Director of Operations & Player Development. In his first year with the Falcons, Reed took...