The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) proudly inducted eight distinguished coaches into its Hall of Fame on Friday, January 3, 2025. The ceremony, presented by C&H Baseball, was held during the 81st annual ABCA Convention at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
This year’s inductees represent a remarkable spectrum of contributions to baseball, spanning high school, collegiate, and professional levels. The ABCA Hall of Fame Class of 2025 included:
- Rich Alday, University of New Mexico
- Dave Jarvis, Belmont University (Tenn.)
- Dave Johnson, Ephrata (Wash.) High School
- Costa "Pop" Kittles, Florida A&M University
- Charlie Migl, St. Mary's University (Texas)
- Dunn Muramaru, Mid-Pacific Institute (Hawaii)
- Jim Schlossnagle, University of Texas
- Larry Turner, Owasso (Okla.) High School
The Hall of Fame Banquet celebrated their careers, which have not only elevated their programs but also significantly advanced the game of baseball. Their legacies include championship success, mentorship, innovation, and embodying the core values of the ABCA.
The Esteemed Tradition of the ABCA Hall of Fame
The ABCA Hall of Fame, established in 1966, is the association's highest honor. With the induction of the Class of 2025, more than 350 coaches have now joined this prestigious group.
To be considered for induction, coaches must meet stringent criteria, including at least 15 years as a head baseball coach, ABCA membership, and a demonstrated impact on baseball at local, national, or international levels. Inductees are celebrated for their leadership, moral character, and commitment to advancing the game.
About the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)
Founded in 1945, the American Baseball Coaches Association serves as the leading professional organization for amateur baseball coaches worldwide. Today, its membership exceeds 15,000 coaches, representing all 50 states and 41 countries. From its humble beginnings with 27 college baseball coaches, the ABCA has grown into a global network committed to fostering excellence and innovation in baseball.
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Hall of Fame Banquet remains a cornerstone event of the annual ABCA Convention, uniting the baseball community to celebrate the enduring impact of coaching excellence.
Welcome the Distinguished ABCA Hall of Fame Class of 2025
Rich Alday, University of New Mexico
Rich Alday began his coaching career at Pima Community College in Arizona where he amassed 517 wins over 17 combined seasons (1974-89, 2018). Transitioning to the University of New Mexico after the 1989 season, Alday further solidified his legacy, becoming the all-time winningest coach in the university's history with 515 victories over 18 seasons.
His accolades are numerous, including three Coach of the Year awards—1992 and 1995 in the Western Athletic Conference, and 2000 in the Mountain West Conference.
Named one of Tucson’s Top-50 Athletic Figures in the 20th Century by the Arizona Daily Star, Alday's impact transcended the baseball diamond, as evidenced by his stint as head softball coach at Ironwood Ridge High School (Ariz.), where he orchestrated two state title victories while accumulating 107 wins and an impressive .764 winning percentage over three seasons.
Furthermore, he served as Bench Coach for Team USA in 1988, contributing to their gold medal win in Seoul, South Korea, and was an auxiliary assistant coach in 1996 when Team USA won a bronze medal in Atlanta.
The 48-year Lifetime ABCA Member passed away in January 2021. His enduring influence is commemorated as a member of the Pima County Hall of Fame and Pima College Athletics Hall of Fame.
Dave Jarvis, Belmont University (Tenn.)
Dave Jarvis completed his 27th season as the head baseball coach at Belmont University in 2024, marking his 40th year in coaching. Over 36 years as a head coach, he has an overall record of 1,087-862-2 (.557).
Jarvis has led the Bruins to more wins than any other coach in program history, which include four conference championships and two NCAA Tournament appearances (2011, 2012). His record at Belmont stands at 763-710-2 (.517), having won 30 or more games in nine seasons.
Jarvis has coached 29 players who advanced to professional baseball, including Matt Beaty and 2022 MLB Draft pick Guy Lipscomb. In 2022, he was named Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) Coach of the Year after guiding Belmont to its first OVC Regular Season Championship and placing 30 players on the OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll. The team had one of the top fielding percentages in the country (.983) and tied a program record with 37 regular season wins and 39 total wins.
In 2011, Belmont achieved its first NCAA tournament game victory by defeating Oklahoma State and Troy in the Baton Rouge Regional. That same year, Jarvis received the TBCA College Coach of the Year award.
From 1985 to 1993, Jarvis was the head coach at Three Rivers Community College (Mo.), earning three Midwest Community College Athletic Conference Coach of the Year awards and an additional honor in women's basketball. He led the Raiders to a 324-152 (.681) record over nine seasons.
Jarvis began his NCAA Div. I coaching career as an assistant at Murray State University in 1993, focusing on hitters, catchers, and base running. As a player, he was the starting catcher and team captain at Arkansas State, where he earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in education.
Dave Johnson, Ephrata (Wash.) High School
Dave Johnson led the Ephrata (Wash.) High School baseball program from 1971 until his retirement in 2006. Over 36 seasons, he compiled a career coaching record of 687-201-2 (.772), including 20 seasons with 20 or more victories. His 687 wins are the most by any high school coach in Washington State history. His Tiger teams combined for 25 league championships, including eight straight from 1980-87, 20 district championships, 16 regional championships and eight Washington state titles.
Johnson is a member of the Washington Interscholastic Athletics Association Hall of Fame, an inaugural member of the Ephrata High School Hall of Fame, and a charter member of the Washington Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. He was also named the North Central Washington’s Male Team Coach of the Decade (1980s) and was the initial recipient of the Washington State Small School Coach of the Year, an award that bears his name.
For his efforts and dedication to the Ephrata Baseball program, he was honored by having the baseball stadium at Ephrata High School named after him and fellow coach Marty O’Brien.
Following his retirement from Ephrata, Johnson was an assistant coach for the Columbia Basin River Dogs Sr. Babe Ruth team for 12 years. The River Dogs made eight Sr. Babe Ruth World Series appearances with Johnson on staff and took home the Sr. Babe Ruth World Series title in 2015.
For 32 years, Johnson and his business partner Marty O’Brien ran T.B.I. Baseball Camps, which were four-week, live-in camps for kids ages 8-18.
Johnson was a graduate of Shadle Park High School before attending Whitworth University (formerly Whitworth College) in Spokane, Washington. At Whitworth, he was a member of the Pirates baseball team while earning his history and political science degree.
After college Johnson took a teaching position at Ephrata where he taught history. In addition to his teaching and baseball coaching duties, Johnson also served as an assistant basketball coach.
Costa "Pop" Kittles, Florida A&M University
Costa Kittles, affectionately known as “Pop,” was a football and baseball star at Florida A&M University during the late 1940s and 1950s before becoming one of the most successful head baseball coaches in Florida A&M history.
Kittles garnered All‐America honors in football as an end in 1950 and was an all‐star catcher for the baseball team. He joined the Florida A&M staff in 1952 as an assistant football coach and physical education instructor. For the next 40 years, he worked as a coach for Florida A&M athletics.
Kittles became the Rattlers’ head baseball coach in 1960, piloting the program to their first of seven-straight Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles and eight overall. The Rattlers appeared in six NAIA district playoffs, advancing to the NAIA World Series in 1962 under Kittles.
Kittles went 401-128 (.758) before retiring in 1982. Nineteen of his players were signed or drafted to the professional leagues, including Hal McRae, Andre Dawson and Vince Coleman, as well as the late William “Bill” Lucas, the first African American executive in major league baseball history when he worked for the Atlanta Braves.
Following his retirement from coaching, he continued to serve as an assistant professor in Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Florida A&M until 1995.
In 1982, Kittles was honored with induction into the Florida A&M Sports Hall of Fame and his contributions to the baseball program were again recognized in 1999 when the baseball field at Florida A&M was renamed Moore‐Kittles Field in honor of Kittles and his college coach, Dr. Oscar Moore.
Kittles, who passed away in 2003 at the age of 76, and his wife Emma established the Costa Kittles Endowed Athletic and Physical Education Scholarship at Florida A&M. The scholarship is intended to provide financial support for students pursuing studies in physical education and participating in athletics at Florida A&M. The pair also established the Emma and Costa Kittles Scholarship in Human Sciences endowment at Florida State University.
Charlie Migl, St. Mary's University (Texas)
Charlie Migl spent 35 years as the head baseball coach at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, before retiring following the 2021 season. The winningest coach in St. Mary’s history, Migl’s career record of 1,246-600 (.675) record ranks fifth all-time in victories among NCAA Div. II coaches. His illustrious career includes 16 conference titles, three NAIA World Series Appearances, two NCAA Division II National Championship Series appearances, seven berths in the NCAA Division II postseason and one national championship.
Inducted into the Heartland Conference Hall of Fame in 2019, Migl earned 14 conference Coach of the Year awards — seven in the Heartland Conference, five in the Heart of Texas Conference and two in the Big State Conference.
Migl helped develop 127 players who earned All-Conference honors, including 31 players who earned All-America honors. He coached six Heartland Conference Players of the Year, eight Heartland Conference Pitchers of the Year and eight Heartland Conference Freshman of the Year.
Migl’s 2001 team capped off their record-setting 50-win season, their first season as a full NCAA Div. II member, by taking home the program’s first ever baseball national championship. Migl was honored as the ABCA NCAA Div. II National Coach of the Year and the San Antonio Express-News Co-Sportsman of the Year for 2001.
Following the Rattlers’ Div. II national championship appearance in 2012, Migl again received NCAA Div. II National Coach of the Year honors from the NCBWA.
Migl also served as St. Mary’s Director of Athletics from 2001 through 2013. During his tenure, the Rattlers won four of their six national championships and all four of their NCAA national championships (including the academic title for Men's Golf) during that span.
Before assuming the head coaching position, the Lifetime ABCA Member served as the Rattlers' assistant coach for five years. Prior to that, he had a two-year coaching stint at Harlandale High School in San Antonio following his All-American playing career at St. Mary’s.
Dunn Muramaru, Mid-Pacific Institute (Hawaii)
Dunn Muramaru has had a profound impact on Hawaii baseball during his nearly 50-year coaching career. The 2024 National High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame inductee has led the baseball program at the Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, Hawaii, for nearly 40 years. Since 1987, he has led the Owls to five state titles and has won over 600 games throughout his nearly 50-year coaching career.
Combined with his nine-year coaching stint at Honolulu’s Kalani High School from 1977-85, his teams have combined to give him a career record of 615-293-2 (.676). In addition to his five Hawaii state titles and six state runner-up finishes, his teams have also won 14 Interscholastic League of Honolulu (ILH) championships while finishing second six times.
Muramaru was honored as an ABCA/Diamond Sports High School Div. III Regional Coach of the Year in 2012. He has also been named the Hawaii State Coach of the Year on four occasions and the ILH Coach of the Year 12 times.
He has produced over 100 players who have gone on to play collegiate baseball, and 18 former players have gone on to play professionally.
A Lifetime Member of the ABCA, Muramaru was recently inducted into the National High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame as part of the seven-member Class of 2024. He has also been inducted into the M-Club (Mid-Pacific) Hall of Fame and received the prestigious Chuck Leahey Award for outstanding service to the sport of baseball in Hawaii in 2009.
Jim Schlossnagle, University of Texas
After leading the Texas A&M Aggies to their second College World Series appearance in three years and the 2024 College World Series Finals, Jim Schlossnagle was announced as the head baseball coach at the University of Texas in June 2024. For his career, Schlossnagle has amassed a 946-455 (.675) record over 23 seasons as a head coach, which included an 18-year stint at TCU and two seasons at UNLV.
In addition to leading the Aggies to their best-ever finish in Omaha, Schlossnagle guided his A&M teams to a combined 135-62 (.685) record, capturing the SEC Western Division title and leading his team to the College World Series in 2022 during his first year at the helm.
Previously, Schlossnagle skippered TCU's baseball program from 2004 to 2021, amassing a 734-346 (.680) record and becoming the all-time winningest coach in the program's history. Under his leadership, TCU made 15 NCAA Tournament appearances, reached seven Super Regionals, and advanced to the College World Series five times.
Before TCU, he coached at UNLV for two seasons, achieving a 77-47 (.621) record and securing an NCAA Tournament berth.
Schlossnagle's accolades include being named National Coach of the Year by the NCBWA in 2010, Baseball America's National Coach of the Year in 2016, Big 12 Coach of the Year in 2015, and seven times earning Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year honors.
The 33-year ABCA member also served as ABCA President in 2023 and remains an active member of the Association’s Board of Directors. He also serves on several ABCA Committees including the Competition Committee, College Playing Rules Committee and Executive Committee.
Schlossnagle's early career included successful stints as an associate head coach at Tulane, where he helped the team to six NCAA Regional appearances, and assistant coaching roles at Clemson and Elon. He also coached the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team in 2013 and served as an assistant coach for Team USA in 2016.
Larry Turner, Owasso (Okla.) High School
Oklahoma high school coaching legend Larry Turner has served as the head baseball coach at Owasso (Okla.) High School for over four decades. Over the course of his 42 years at the helm of the Owasso baseball program, his teams have combined to give him a career record of 1,284-295 (.813).
Turner’s 1,284 wins are the most all-time by any spring-only coach in the state of Oklahoma and he is the third-winningest spring-only coach nationally among all high school baseball coaches.
Under his leadership, the Rams have captured 28 regional championships to go along with 12 Oklahoma state title victories that span five decades, while also finishing as state runner-up on six occasions.
Turner has received numerous coaching honors, including being selected as an ABCA/Diamond Sports High School Regional Coach of the year in 2007, 2011 and 2017, while garnering ABCA/Diamond Sports National High School Coach of the Year honors in 2007.
Turner is a member of Owasso High School’s inaugural Hall of Fame Class of 2010 and is also a member of the Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the National High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, and the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
As a player, Turner was a standout catcher at Owasso in the 1970s. He was instrumental in leading the school to their first baseball state championship in 1973 and was the first Owasso baseball player selected to the All-State team that same year.