Jack Leggett

Who is Jack Leggett?

Jack Leggett is an American college baseball coach, the head coach of the Clemson Tigers since the 1994 season. Under Leggett, the Tigers have reached the College World Series six times. As of the end of the 2012 season, he has a career record of 1,224–694–1, with seven conference tournament titles and 23 NCAA Tournament appearances.

He was named Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Coach of the year in 1994, 1995 and 2006. In 1994, his team won 57 games.

Leggett served as head coach for five years at Vermont and nine years at Western Carolina. He became the head coach at Vermont prior to the 1978 season. After coaching the Vermont club baseball team in 1977, Leggett had brought the program back to varsity status, after it had been cut following the 1971 season. He set a program record for wins in 1981, and Vermont appeared in consecutive ECAC New England Division I Tournaments in 1981 and 1982. At Western Carolina, he had 302 career wins and led the Catamounts to five NCAA Tournaments, and five Southern Conference titles. Under his guidance, the Catamounts averaged 33 wins a season during his time in Cullowhee, N.C. He is the only person to be the head coach at both NCAA Division I schools nicknamed the Catamounts.