Nickname Tribe Head coach Brian Murphy Home ground Plumeri Park | Founded 1895 University College of William & Mary Location Williamsburg, VA | |
Home stadium Plumeri Park
(Capacity: 1,000) Colors Green, Gold, and Silver Conference Colonial Athletic Association | ||
The William & Mary Tribe baseball team represents the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in NCAA Division I competition. The school's team, founded in 1895, currently competes in the Colonial Athletic Association and play their home games at the off-campus Plumeri Park. Brian Murphy was named head coach on December 3, 2013 after previous coach Jamie Pinzino departed for Oklahoma after the 2013 season.
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History
The Tribe have played in four NCAA tournaments, 1983, 2001, 2013, and 2016, but have never qualified for the College World Series. The Tribe's combined NCAA tournament record is 4–8 (.333). They have won seven conference championships, with the most recent coming in 2016. The team has an all-time record of 1,432–1,565–12 (.478) over 119 season of play.
Conference affiliations
Venue
The William & Mary Tribe men's baseball team currently plays at off-campus Plumeri Park which opened in 2001 and has a seating capacity of 1,000. The stadium is named after William & Mary alumnus Joseph J. Plumeri II who also played on the baseball team as member of the Class of 1966. Previously, the baseball team played on campus on a field located next to Zable Stadium on land currently occupied by practice fields for the football team as part of the Jimmye Laycock Football Center.
Head coaches
The program's longest tenured head coaches was Jim Farr who served as head coach for 12 seasons from 1993 to 2005.