WVU Loses Assistant Coach to Big 12 Foe
The West Virginia baseball program will see a shift in power at the end of the 2024 season as head coach Randy Mazey will step down as head coach and move into a senior advisor role for two seasons, helping along the head coach in waiting, Steve Sabins.
Mazey hinted at it earlier this month during an interview on the Mountaineer Insider podcast with Tony Caridi that the coaches on his staff would have opportunities to go other places either this offseason or in the near future due to the success the WVU program ha had in recent years.
Tuesday morning, a report from Kendall Rogers of D1Baseball surfaced, stating that one of those assistant coaches is indeed on the move. Rogers reports that Mark Ginther will return to Oklahoma State as an assistant coach. Ginther spent his playing days in Stillwater from 2009-12 and got his start in coaching there as a Player Development Coordinator in 2015 before transitioning to a Volunteer Assistant for three seasons.
Ginther has been with the West Virginia program since 2019 and has been a key part to the team's success with his impact in recruiting. The 2019 class ranked No. 21 nationally, marking WVU’s first top-25 recruiting class in program history. The 2020, 2021 and 2022, 2023 classes also ranked inside the top-40 nationally.
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