Brian Greisman eagerly starts his second season with the Tigers. He joined the East Central University baseball staff for the 2021-2022 season as the Pitching Coach/Recruiting Coordinator.
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Greisman comes with a range of coaching experience. In the summer of 2022, before joining Golloway’s staff, he spent time as the Head Coach of the Newark Pilots of the New York Perfect Game Collegiate League. In his time there, his team led the league in batting average. Before his time at ECU, he was the Pitching Coach at Cleveland Community College in Shelby, NC. All of his pitchers there have signed onto NCAA programs advancing their careers. He also served as the Head Coach of the S. Carolina Bulls of the Southern Shores Collegiate Baseball League in the summer of 2021.
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Prior to his time at Cleveland Community College, Greisman was the Head Coach at Turner High School for a year. From his one season there he helped sign 3 players to play at the collegiate level. He was also the owner and Head Coach of the Ardmore Athletes, a summer showcase 19U team. From that summer 5 players signed to play baseball at the collegiate level. He began his passion for coaching when he created his own Pitching & Hitting academy in Ardmore, OK, from 2017-2020, where he trained over hundreds of players from the youth level to the professional level.
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His High School baseball playing days were spent at Plainview High School. His team made it to State each of his last 2 years, just falling short of the State Championship his Senior year. Greisman was Conference Pitcher of the year and All-Area.
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Greisman played collegiate baseball at Murray State College for 2 years. Where he is now in the Athletic Hall of Fame there with his 2013 National Championship Winning team. He then went on to play at Wichita State University for 2 years.
He also participated in summer league baseball. He spent a summer in the prestigious West Coast League with the Walla Walla Sweets, earning all-star honors there. Also, earning all-star honors in the Kansas Collegiate Baseball League.
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He continued his playing career playing Professional Baseball for the Plattsburgh Thunderbirds of the Empire Professional Baseball League. In the 2019 season, him and his team claimed the League Championship.
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The Ardmore, Oklahoma native earned an associate’s degree from Murray State College in May 2014, a bachelor’s degree in communication from Wichita State in December 2017, and a Master’s degree in Sports Management in April 2022 from the University of Southern Indiana. He got married to his wife, Elizabeth, in 2020.
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