Playing college ball at an NAIA school is just as much a stepping-stone to the major leagues as playing at NCAA schools. Over the past 2 years no less than 85 players from NAIA schools have been taken in the MLB draft. Here’s a look at 2010’s draftees.
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MAYVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY COMETS
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LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY CHAPARRALS
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A man synonymous with NAIA baseball, Ed Cheff, 34 year coach of the Lewis-Clark State Warriors announced Wednesday that he is stepping down, capping a career in which he led the Warriors to a record 16 NAIA World Series titles. Cheff, better known (to me and me alone) as Top Cheff, Iron Cheff, The Cheffmeister General and, my personal favorite, Cheff Boy-Ar-Dee posted a phenomenal 1,705-430-2 record.
Cheff will be replaced by Gary “No Nickname” Picone who will also retain his position as Lewis-Clark State’s Athletic Director.
For a tribute to this extraordinary coach that is more dignified than a slew of lame nicknames made up by some blogger the man never met be sure to visit the Lewis-Clark State athletics site at: http://www.lcsc.edu/athletics/
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OREGON TECH HUSTLIN’ OWLS
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Tired of the antics of many athletes in NCAA Division 1?
Looking for collegiate athletics that retain the letter as well as
the spirit of the term “student athlete“? You need look no fur-
ther than the so-called “lower” divisions of college sports. I’ll be
doing a list of some of these teams with what I consider cool
nicknames for NCAA Division 2, 3 and for starters the NAIA.
If you’ve never heard of the NAIA it’s the National Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics. The organization’s slogan is “Champ-
ions of Character” and they pretty much live up to it.
However, for this list the only “character” I’m concerned with
is how colorful a character their team’s mascot is. Here they are
in no particular order.
20. COLUMBIA COLLEGE FIGHTING KOALAS
Location: Columbia, SC
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