Leggett Enters Western Carolina Hall of Fame

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CLEMSON, SC - Clemson Head Baseball Coach Jack Leggett, the

winningest baseball coach at Western Carolina with 302 victories in

nine seasons, will be inducted into the Western Carolina Athletic

Hall of Fame this weekend in Cullowhee, NC.

Leggett led the Catamounts to an unprecedented five consecutive

Southern Conference Championships and five straight NCAA tournament

bids from 1985-89. Two of his teams, 1985 and 1987, finished the

season ranked among the nation's top 30. The 1987 squad reached the

NCAA Midwest Regional championship game. Western averaged 33 wins per

season during Leggett's tenure and played in the SoCon Championship

game in eight of his nine seasons. In addition to his success on the

field 100 percent of the players who completed their eligibility with

the Catamounts, received a degree from WCU. Three players earned

Academic All-American honors.

Leggett has coached Clemson to 380 wins in just eight years - an

average of 47.5 wins per year - and has 757 career wins in his 22

years as a Division I head coach. The Tiger skipper has coached

Clemson to the NCAA Tournament every year he has been at Clemson,

including three berths in the College World Series (1995, 1996 and

2000). In 2001, Clemson won at least 40 games for the 16th

consecutive year and made it to the NCAA Tournament for the 15th

straight year. The Tigers swept through the Clemson Regional to

qualify for their third straight Super Regional, one of just six

schools to do so, before falling to Miami (FL), the eventual national

champion.

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