7  Eric Madsen Position: Head Coach Experience: 4th Season Record at UVU: 94-74

After leading Utah Valley University to a school-record 42 wins and Great West Conference regular season and tournament championships in 2010, fourth-year coach Eric Madsen captured his second straight sweep of the GWC - as well as his second straight Coach of the Year award - in 2011.

In his first three seasons as head coach, Madsen has won 94 games including 76 combined over the past two seasons. The 2011 club went 34-22 and for the second straight season produced an All-American in senior outfielder Chris Benson.

The Wolverines lost just two games in the Great West Conference for the second straight season, going 22-2 before winning four straight games to win the year-end tournament.

The 2011 team set school records for lowest team ERA (4.74), lowest opponent batting average (.292) and had the most shutouts (7) in the school's NCAA history.

Madsen was also named the Great West Coach of the Year after finishing the 2010 regular season with a 26-2 record and leading his team to five four-game sweeps in conference. In 2010, Utah Valley finished as the nation's team batting champion, hitting .372 as a club. The Wolverines also led all Division I teams in doubles (188), doubles per game (3.19), hits (840), on-base plus slugging percentage (1.029).

UVU finished second in the nation in three caregories; runs (611), RBI (553) and runs per game (10.4) and were top five in three other categories. Individually, Jake Rickenbach led the country in runs per game (1.51) while teammate Jace Brinkerhoff was second with 1.49 and led the nation in total runs with 88.

Brinkerhoff, who was named a Third-Team All-American, finished less than one-tenth of a point out of the top spot for the individual batting title, batting a school-record .456. Chris Benson was the national leader with 89 runs batted in and finished fourth in total bases and fifth in triples.

In the first two seasons of the Great West Conference, Madsen has produced 19 all-conference players; 10 first team and nine second team as well as the Player of the Year in 2010 (Brinkerhoff) and the Pitcher and Newcomer of the Year in 2011 (Jeremy Gendlek).

Prior to taking over as head coach, Madsen coached for five seasons as an assistant under Steve Gardner and has been a part of the program since the school's first season of NCAA Division I competition in 2003.

As an assistant at Utah Valley, Madsen tutored Kam Mickolio, who was drafted in the 18th round by the Seattle Mariners in 2006. Mickolio became UVU's first player to play Major League Baseball when he made his debut on August 20, 2008 for the Baltimore Orioles. Mickolio, who was a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks' organization in 2011 is now playing in Japan for the Hiroshima Carp.

Madsen also coached former Wolverine Justin Smith, a 36th-round pick in 2009 by the St. Louis Cardinals, during his first season at Utah Valley

Madsen spent seven years (1996-2003) as the head coach at the College of Eastern Utah, in Price, Utah, amassing a 146-160 record. While there he coached current Texas Rangers pitcher Willie Eyre, who was a junior college All-American while playing for Madsen. He also coached at CEU with current UVU assistant Dave Carter from 1996-99.

While at Eastern Utah, he directed the Golden Eagles to a 146-160 overall record. His Eastern Utah teams competed every year in what is considered to be one of the best Junior College conferences in the nation. Madsen spent two years (1994-1996) as an assistant at Eastern Utah before taking over the helm in 1996. Madsen was also an assistant coach for the Zion Pioneerz, a former professional independent baseball club in St. George, Utah.

Madsen's played collegiately at both Eastern Utah, from 1990-92, and at Southern Utah University, from 1993-95. He later received his Bachelor's degree from Bellevue University.

Madsen had an outstanding playing career at both Eastern Utah from 1990-92 and at Southern Utah University from 1993-95. At Eastern Utah he was named the Golden Eagle Player of the Year in 1992. He received his Bachelor's degree from Bellevue.

A graduate of Bonneville High School in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Madsen lettered in football, basketball, and baseball. As a standout pitcher and infielder he was a three-year starter, two-time All-City selection and was named Athlete of the Year as a senior.

Madsen and his wife Jessica have five sons, Mick, Maddux, McGwire, Mays and Murphy and one daughter, Macee.