Chris Krepline

Biography

Chris Krepline joined the Cincinnati Baseball coaching staff as the director of pitching development in September 2024. The 2026 season will be his second with the Bearcats. UC ended the 2025 season with a 33-26 overall record and earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament, the seventh tournament trip in program history and the first at-large berth since 1974. The Bearcats were the No. 3 seed in the Knoxville Regional and won their opening game against No. 2 seed Wake Forest, 11-6. Cincinnati reached the 30-win plateau for the second straight season, the first time the program had won at least 30 games in consecutive seasons since doing it three straight years from 1999-2001. UC also captured six ranked wins, the most in a season in school history. Krepline helped coach a pair of All-Big 12 pitchers in Nathan Taylor and Kellen O’Connor. Taylor, who earned his second straight all-conference nod, was 7-2 with a 3.93 ERA in 87.0 innings pitched. O’Connor, in his first year with the program, totaled 70.2 innings pitched and logged 60 strikeouts. UC broke the single-season school record for strikeouts in 2025, racking up 496 K’s. Taylor accounted for 91 strikeouts, the first Bearcat pitcher with at least 90 strikeouts in a season since 1999. Krepline came to Cincinnati following a successful stint as the head coach at Lawrence University. From 2019-24, he earned two Midwest Conference Coach of the Year awards and held Lawrence to two conference titles (2022 and 2024). In 20