Jason Gill Hired as Assistant Baseball Coach July 28, 2004 -- Fullerton, Calif.
Former All-Big West Conference infielder and UC Irvine assistant baseball
coach Jason Gill has been hired as an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton,
Head Coach George Horton announced.
Gill replaces Dave Serrano, who was hired as UCI’s Head Coach on
July 12.
Gill, who began his coaching career at Cal State Fullerton as a manager
on the 1995 National Championship squad, spent the last three seasons
as an assistant coach with the Big West Conference rival Anteaters, working
with the infielders and heavily involved with the program’s recruiting
efforts. UC Irvine’s first recruiting class was ranked eighth by
Baseball America and the following two classes were among the top 30 according
to Collegiate Baseball.
Prior to UCI, Gill was an assistant coach at Loyola Marymount of the West
Coast Conference, helping guide the Lions to WCC titles in 1999 and 2000,
earning postseason berths in both years. He also served as an assistant
coach at Nevada (1996-98).
Gill played one season for the Titans in 1994 after spending the first
two years of his collegiate career at Cuesta College and his junior season
at Cal State Dominguez Hills before transferring to Fullerton. He hit
.345 with 13 RBI while starting 43 games as a senior third baseman, helping
the Titans to a 47-16
overall record and a berth in the College World Series.
A local product who prepped at Mater Dei HS in Santa Ana, Gill received
his bachelors degree in Kinesiology in 1996. He and his wife Kacey live
in Costa Mesa.