Baseball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach / Coordinator of Camps
- Phone:
- 266-6542
B.A. Vollmuth returns to the Golden Eagles for a fourth season in 2018 as an assistant coach, returning to his alma mater after finishing his professional baseball career.
Vollmuth, who helps oversee team defense as well as hitting, aided Associate Head Coach Chad Caillet with an offense that led Conference USA in almost every category in each of the last two seasons. The program registered a .301 team batting average last spring, which included 115 doubles, 11 triples and 74 home runs last season as the squad reached the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive year.
Vollmuth also helped lead the Golden Eagles to a school-record 94 victories over the last two seasons, including two C-USA regular season crowns and one tournament title.
In his three years of helping Caillet with the offense, the Golden Eagles have collected averages of a .304 batting mark to go along 123 doubles, 13 triples and 77 home runs over that span.
Vollmuth enjoyed a successful playing career from 2009-2011 in which he compiled a .326 career batting average with 32 doubles, five triples and 40 home runs to go along with 153 RBI. His homer total ranks seventh on the Golden Eagle career charts as does his career slugging percentage (.640).
As a freshman, he helped lead the Golden Eagles to their only College World Series appearance in 2009. In that NCAA tournament, Vollmuth belted a pair of home runs in the same inning of the deciding game of the Atlanta Regional in defeating host Georgia Tech 12-8. The Golden Eagles went to the postseason in all three of his seasons at Southern Miss.
The native of Biloxi, Miss., was taken in the 2011 Major League Baseball Players First Year Draft in the third round by the Oakland Athletics following his junior season. Vollmuth signed and played three professional seasons for that organization.
In addition to his duties assisting with hitting and team defense, Vollmuth also serves as director of baseball camps for the program.
Vollmuth earned his bachelor's degree from Southern Miss in 2016.
