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2001
Baseball Coaches
Rick Vanderhook is in his 15th season as an assistant coach for the Titans. He will again coach the outfielders and hitters, set the defense and handle third-base coaching duties. He is also a key evaluator of talent in the recruiting process and is the director of Titan Baseball Camps. “Hook” has coached two first-round draft picks (Dante Powell by the San Francisco Giants and Mark Kotsay by the Florida Marlins) and a supplemental pick (Aaron Rowand by the Chicago White Sox in 1998) as well as 12 All-Americans since 1991. As camp director, Vanderhook oversees all aspects of Titan baseball camps, which help young (7 to 17-years-old) players reach their top performance level. Among the graduates of Titan camps are former Titans Steve Chatham and Rowand and a handful of freshmen on this year’s squad. Vanderhook, 38, first coached the Titans from 1985 to 1988. After serving as a bullpen coach and working with the pitchers and catchers in 1985 and 1986, he stepped into the third-base coaching box in 1987 and worked with the hitters and defense in 1988. In his 14 previous seasons with the Titans as a player and coach, they have reached the College World Series five times. Vanderhook spent 1989 and 1990 with Coach Bill Kernen at Cal State Northridge. In 1990, Northridge was the Division II national runner-up. Vanderhook returned to Fullerton prior to the 1991 season. He has coached for Fairbanks in Alaska and the Goldpanners finished third in the nation in 1986. A product of the prominent Cerritos College program and a player for George Horton, Vanderhook originally came to Cal State Fullerton in 1983 and redshirted his first season with the Titans before becoming a member of the Titans’ 1984 national championship team. Vanderhook prepped at Lakewood High School under Coach John Herbold, now the head coach at cal State Los Angeles. He currently resides in Yorba Linda with his wife, April, daughters Noelle (5) and Autumn (3), and the newest addition, R.J., born in April, 2000.
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