Former Cal State Fullerton third baseman Ronnie Prettyman will
joined the Titans coaching staff for the 2015 baseball season on
Oct. 8, 2014.
Prettyman will took over as the volunteer assistant coach
after completing his third season with the Indiana State baseball
coaching staff in 2014, assisting the Sycamores to another winning
season on the diamond as well helping the program reach its second
NCAA Tournament during his tenure.
"It's great to have Ronnie back in Fullerton,” Titans head
coach Rick Vanderhook said. “He knows what it takes to be a
Titan, and he's a great addition to our coaching staff. Ronnie won
a title here in 2004, so he knows how to win and more over he's
done a fine job as a coach over at Indiana State in helping the
Sycamores make some noise in the NCAA Tournament."
Prettyman returns to Cal State Fullerton a decade after he
helped lead the Titans to the 2004 national title. He batted .324
and started all 69 games he played in that season, blasting five
home runs to go along with 38 RBI. He also belted 16 doubles and
stole 14 bases to go along with 53 runs scored.
In his three seasons with the Titans, Prettyman played in 197
games and made 195 starts, posting a .332 career batting average.
He accumulated 253 hits including 51 doubles, 11 triples and 11
home runs to go along with 124 RBI. He helped lead the Titans to
three straight appearances in the NCAA Super Regionals and
back-to-back trips to the College World Series in 2003 and 2004.
Prettyman was a captain with the Titans and earned defensive most
valuable player honors in 2005. He was named to the Big West
All-Conference Team three times, earning a first-team selection in
2005.
Prettyman was selected by the Seattle Mariners in the 10th round
of the 2005 MLB First Year Player Draft, where he signed and played
five seasons in their minor league system from 2005-09, playing as
high as Triple-A in the Mariners system.
In his first season with Indiana State, the Sycamores posted
their first outright Missouri Valley Conference regular season
championship and their first trip to the NCAA Tournament since
1995. The Sycamores finished the 2012 season with 41-19 record. In
his first season as a coach in 2012, Prettyman and Indiana State
faced Cal State Fullerton in the opening game of the Eugene
Regional. The Titans went on to win that game 9-5.
In 2014, Prettyman assisted with the guidance of Indiana
State’s batters while working defensively with the infielders
and catchers. The Sycamores finished the season with a 35-18 mark
and received an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament. The
Sycamores were a No. 2 seed at the Bloomington Regional, where they
took on No. 3 Stanford is the opening round. Indiana State finished
second in the Missouri Valley Conference to Evansville. Under
Prettyman’s tutelage, senior shortstop Tyler Wampler was
named the Missouri Valley Conference Defensive Player Of The Year
and drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 17th round of the
2014 MLB Draft.
Prettyman is married to wife, Tiffany, and his father, Ron, is
the current director of athletics at Indiana State.