Chad Harris

Biography

Chad Harris was appointed head baseball coach at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in December of 2018. In addition to head coaching duties, Harris works with the Academic Support Programs in working collaboratively with coaches and student-athletes including one-on-one academic coaching. Some highlights since Coach Harris took over leading the Pioneer baseball program include having had seven First-Team WIAC selections, 12 honorable mention WIAC selections, and one player earn Midwest Region Player of the Year, ABCA 2nd Team All-American, and 1st Team D3Baseball.com All-American. For six straight years, the baseball program has earned the ABCA Academic Excellence Award for having a team GPA above a 3.0. The program has also won nine games against top 10 nationally ranked programs. In his first season at the helm of the Pioneers, the team doubled overall wins from the previous season, set a school record in conference wins with 14 WIAC victories, made the conference tournament for the first time since 2010 and won a tournament game for the first time since 2005. Following his first season with the Pioneers, Harris was named College Coach of the Year (2019) by the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association. Prior to UW-Platteville, Harris spent 17 years coaching baseball at the collegiate level. Stops included head coach at AIB College of Business in Des Moines, Iowa (2013-15), head coach at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa, (2006-2012), and assistant coach at University o