ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
Mike Gaski was the first head baseball coach at UNCG, and in 22 seasons beginning in 1991 accumulated over 650 wins. Gaski guided the program to NCAA Tournament appearances and league championships in two different Division I conferences—the Big South and the Southern. He also led the Spartans into the top 30 of several national polls over his 22 seasons. He was honored as conference Coach of the Year on four occasions.
During his tenure, Gaski coached more than 40 players who were either drafted or signed to professional baseball and had on his squads four All-Americans, five Freshman All-Americans, three Freshman All America honorable mentions, two Academic All-Americans and 54 All-Conference selections.
In 2010, Gaski recorded his 600th win as a head coach, and that year he was also inducted into UNCG’s Athletics Hall of Fame with his 1994 team. That Spartan team, including seven players who started the UNCG program only three years earlier, posted 39 wins and captured its first Big South Conference title.
The ’94 squad made UNCG’s first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament in any Division I sport. In 1997, the Spartans recorded a school-record 45 wins on the way to the Big South Conference regular-season and tournament titles, an NCAA berth and a No. 28 final national ranking.
In 1998, UNCG’s first season in the Southern Conference, the Spartans posted a then-record 22 league wins en route to the conference title. After posting a 40-18 overall record, the team narrowly missed its third NCAA trip in five years.
During his tenure, a $4.3 million baseball stadium was completed in 1999 and a new $2.4 million locker room and training center opened in 2010.
Gaski was elected President of USA Baseball in January 2001 and has continued in that role to this day.
In 2015, he was inducted into the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame.
In addition to undergraduate and graduate degrees from Detroit and Ohio State, Gaski has an MFA in creative writing from UNCG.
*All stats were as of the date of induction.
