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Phil Stephenson
General Manager/Head Coach |
Phil Stephenson finished his 4th season as
Head
Baseball Coach at Dodge City Community College. Stephenson was a
three-time, first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference selection at
Wichita State University, including the Missouri Valley Conference
Player of the Year honor in 1982. A first-team All-American at first
base in 1981 and 1982, Stephenson was named the Baseball News College
Player of the Year in 1982.
Stephenson still holds the Wichita State career records for hits (418),
runs scored (420), RBI (322), total bases (730), stolen bases (206),
walks (300) and hitting streak (47 games). Stephenson held 13
individual NCAA records at the conclusion of his career and still
currently holds NCAA career records for hits, runs, total bases, stolen
bases, and walks.
Stephenson was a 3rd round choice of the Oakland A's in the 1982 free
agent draft. He played 14 years of professional baseball, with 4 of
those coming in the major leagues as a member of the Chicago Cubs and
the San Diego Padres. After retiring in 1995, Stephenson spent 4 years
coaching in professional baseball. He was the Manager of the Year in
1996 with the Abilene Prairie Dogs of the Texas-Louisiania League. He
also managed in the South Atlantic League and was a Hitting Instructor
with the Wichita Wranglers. In 2000, Stephenson was the volunteer coach
at his alma mater, Wichita State. Stephenson has also organized and ran
a charity "Wiffleball" tournament in Wichita to raise money
for
children who have autism and other communication disorders.
In 2007, Stephenson was elected to the National College Baseball Hall
of Fame in Lubbock, Texas. He has also been named one of the 3 best
college baseball players of the 20th Century by Collegiate Baseball and
one of the ten top ten college baseball players of all-time by Baseball
America. He is a member of the Guthrie High School Hall of Fame, Kansas
Sports Hall of Fame, Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame, Wichita State
University Hall of Fame, and the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of
Fame.
A 1983 graduate of Wichita State with a bachelor's degree in Business
Administration, Stephenson and his wife Kim have four children and
reside in Dodge City.
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Jared Howton
Assistant/Pitching Coach
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Jared
Howton will enter his first season with the Dodge City A's and will
serve as the teams pitching coach for head coach Phil Stephenson.
Jared is currently an assistant at Southern Arkansas University
and enjoyed much success last season on the baseball field. The
SAU Muleriders were number 1 in the country atop Division II polls for
much of the season while finishing with a 47-10 record which earned
them the Gulf South Conference Western Division crown and a 1 seed in
the South regional. SAU also had 3 pitchers taken in 2010 June
draft including RHP Hayden Simpson who was taken in the 1st round (16th
overall) by the Chicago Cubs.
Howton had the opportunity to play his college baseball in his hometown
at the University of Texas at San Antonio where he gamered Southland
Conference Pitcher of the Year and 1st Team All-Conference awards in
2001. That season he was also awarded Team Pitcher of the Year,
Team MVP and selected by the American Baseball Coaches Association to
the NCAA Division I South Central All Region Baseball Team. He
finished that season with nine wins, a 3.42 ERA and seven complete
games.
Jared earned a Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology in 2008 from the
University of Texas at San Antonio and is currently working on a
Masters of Science in Kinesiology at Southern Arkansas University.
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Alex Macedo - Administrative Assistant |
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