Head Coach
Ron Smith
- A former baseball and basketball standout at Furman, Ron Smith enters his 17th season at the helm of a Paladin baseball program he has revitalized and positioned as a strong competitor in the Southern Conference.
In 2007 Smith became Furman's all-time winningest baseball coach, surpassing his Tom Wall, his collegiate mentor. He has averaged just shy of 25 victories per season during his Paladin tenure -- a level of accomplishment that takes on new meaning when considering that prior to his arrival Furman had recorded just one 25-win campaign in program history and only one winning season since 1976.
In 16 years at Furman, Smith has directed Paladin baseball to seven 25-win campaigns and three school record 30-win seasons. Punctuating the marked increase in success are a SoCon Tournament championship (2005) and a pair of tournament runner-up finishes.
Taking over a moribund program in 1994, Smith's first team managed only 10 triumphs. By 1997 Furman baseball posted a 29-23 record and, in the process, established a new high for season wins and finished as SoCon Tournament runner-up. In 2000, Furman again finished as the conference tournament runner-up, ousting the College of Charleston and The Citadel before losing to Georgia Southern in the championship game.
