Tim Chambers (baseball)
Biographical details | |
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Born | Utah Tech JC | January 27, 1965
1986 | Southern Utah State |
Position(s) | Outfielder |
Coaching career ( Southern Nevada CC | |
2011–2015 | UNLV |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
2003–2010 | Southern Nevada CC |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 157–132 |
Tournaments | NCAA: 1–2 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
MW regular season (2014) | |
Awards | |
MW Coach of the Year (2014) | |
Timothy Doyle Chambers (January 27, 1965 – October 27, 2019)[1] was an American college baseball coach. He was head coach of the UNLV Rebels baseball team from 2011 to 2015. He was named to that position prior to the 2011 season.[2][3][4]
Born in
In 2000, Chambers was hired to coach the
In the summer of 2010, the Washington Nationals, who would later draft Harper first overall, courted Chambers to be a scout.[7] Instead, a month later Chambers was introduced as the head coach at UNLV, following Buddy Gouldsmith's resignation.[4] In his three seasons, the Rebels have reached 30 wins twice and claimed wins over several ranked teams, including Stanford, TCU, UC Irvine, and Arizona, while entering the rankings in both 2011 and 2013 themselves.[2] Chambers was fired by UNLV in December 2015 after being arrested for driving under the influence.[8]
Chambers died on October 27, 2019.[9]
Head coaching record
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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UNLV Rebels (Mountain West Conference) (2011–2015) | |||||||||
2011 | UNLV | 33–25 | 10–13 | 5th | |||||
2012 | UNLV | 26–31 | 7–17 | 4th | |||||
2013 | UNLV | 36–18 | 18–12 | 2nd | |||||
2014 | UNLV | 36–25 | 20–10 | T–1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
2015 | UNLV | 25–31 | 10–20 | 6th | |||||
UNLV: | 157–132 | 65–72 | |||||||
Total: | 157–132 | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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See also
References
- ^ "2014 Inductee - Tim Chambers". www.sportshalloffame.net. Archived from the original on May 6, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f "Tim Chambers Bio". UNLV Rebels. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ^ Ray Brewer (June 11, 2010). "New coach Tim Chambers optimistic he can turn UNLV baseball into a winner". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ^ a b Brian Foley (June 12, 2010). "UNLV hires Tim Chambers to lead Baseball Squad". College Baseball Daily. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ^ "deseretnews.com Utah High School Sports Records". www.deseretnews.com. Archived from the original on October 4, 2003.
- ^ "UTech wins twice over Dixie, takes first place spot in ICAC baseball". Deseret News. April 29, 1985.
- ^ John Heyman (May 4, 2010). "Nationals working to hire Harper's college coach as scout". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ^ Graney, Ed (July 14, 2017). "Ex-baseball coach Tim Chambers talks UNLV firing amid drunken journey". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Archived from the original on July 19, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
- ^ Anderson, Mark (October 28, 2019). "Former UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers dies at 54". Las Vegas Review-Journal.