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Bill Currier
American baseball coach

Bill Currier

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American baseball coach
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Place of birth
Essex Junction, Essex, Chittenden County, USA
Age
64 years
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Peninsula Pilots
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Biography

Willard F. Currier is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Fairfield Stags baseball team.He was named to that position prior to the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball season.He was previously the head coach at Vermont (its winningest ever) before the university cut the baseball program after the 2009 season.

Playing career

Currier played at Vermont under Jack Leggett from 1979 through 1981.He was drafted in the sixth round of the 1981 MLB Draft by the Philadelphia Phillies.He played three seasons in the Phillies organization in Class A.

Coaching career

He returned to Vermont as an assistant coach and completed his degree in 1984.He then assisted Leggett at Western Carolina before earning his first head coaching job at Mitchell College, then a junior college.In 1988, Currier succeeded Mike Stone as head coach at Vermont.Currier would coach the Catamounts for 22 seasons, compiling a 486–470 record prior to the programs end in 2009.He was named America East Coach of the Year three times.He then served the 2010 season at Tennessee before being named head coach in waiting at Fairfield for the 2011 season and being elevated to the top job in 2012.

At Fairfield, Currier was named the MAAC Coach of the Year in 2012, his first season as the Stags' head coach. That year, the team went 14–10 in MAAC play and reached the playoffs for the first time since 2000.Senior shortstop Larry Cornelia and sophomore outfielder Ryan Plourde were both all-conference selections, giving Fairfield multiple all-league honorees for the first time since 2008.In 2014, Fairfield went 32-24 (15-8 MAAC), finishing third in the program's first 30-win season.Plourde, Jake Salpietro, and EJ Ashworth were named to the All-MAAC First Team.The Stags won their first two games in the MAAC Tournament, defeating #6 seed Manhattan and #2 Siena before losses to top-seeded Canisius and Siena knocked them out of the tournament.

Head coaching record

Below is a table of Currier's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.

SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Vermont Catamounts (Eastern College Athletic Conference)
1988Vermont10–215–95th
1989Vermont11–194–116th
Vermont Catamounts (North Atlantic/America East)
1990Vermont18–135–94th
1991Vermont18–146–83rd
1992Vermont28–1313–93rdECAC Tournament
1993Vermont25–1815–134thNorth Atlantic Tournament
1994Vermont16–2210–136thNorth Atlantic Tournament
1995Vermont27–1815–93rdNorth Atlantic Tournament
1996Vermont12–21–18–127th
1997Vermont27–1915–93rdAmerica East Tournament
1998Vermont26–2115–123rdAmerica East Tournament
1999Vermont21–2610–186th
2000Vermont28–2216–103rdAmerica East Tournament
2001Vermont23–2210–17T–6th
2002Vermont27–2214–82ndAmerica East Tournament
2003Vermont32–1417–51stAmerica East Tournament
2004Vermont18–2610–115th
2005Vermont29–1914–7T–2ndAmerica East Tournament
2006Vermont19–3416–81stAmerica East Tournament
2007Vermont21–29–110–135th
2008Vermont27–2412–114thAmerica East Tournament
2009Vermont23–3314–10T–3rdAmerica East Tournament
Vermont:486–491–2254–233
Fairfield Stags (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference)
2012Fairfield27–2814–103rdMAAC Tournament
2013Fairfield20–2911–13T–5th
2014Fairfield32–2415–83rdMAAC Tournament
2015Fairfield14–287–118th
2016Fairfield32–2421–71stNCAA Regional
2017Fairfield31–2417–71stMAAC Tournament
2018Fairfield22–299–149th
2019Fairfield35–2515–9T-3rd
2020Fairfield2–90–0Season canceled due to COVID-19
Fairfield:215–220109–79
Total:701–711–2

           
           
           
     

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