Head Coach

Member of Coastal’s Sasser Athletics Hall of Fame. Played for Coastal Carolina as a catcher from 1995-99. 
2025 was his rookie year as head coach where he was named Baseball America’s Coach of the Year, ABCA Atlantic Region Coach of the Year. He lead the Chanticleer’s to a record breaking season of 56-13. A season that landed Coastal back in the finals at the College World Series in Omaha. 

Associate Head Coach & Recruiting Coordinator

Oxendine returns to his alma mater (a decorated catcher from 2001-04) after spending the past three seasons as the head coach at Longwood. Oxendine served as the director of baseball of operations at Coastal before being promoted to director of player development, operations, and analytics.

Assistant Baseball Coach / Pitching

Matt Williams in his first year as the new pitching coach for the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers after spending last season at South Carolina. 

Assistant Baseball Coach

Matt Schilling, who played at Coastal Carolina from 1993-94 and served as an assistant coach for the Chants from 1995-00, returned to his alma mater to serve as a volunteer assistant baseball coach in the summer of 2012.

Director of Baseball Operations

Beach returns to returns to his alma mater after a four-year stint at Longwood University as an assistant coach. He will be the Director of Baseball Operations under new head coach Kevin Schnall.

Director of Baseball Analytics

Pepin returns to Coastal in 2026 for his 2nd season with the program full-time.  Pepin attended Coastal from 2021-24 and served as the Team USA Collegiate National Team Bench Coach in 2024.  

Director of Player Development and Recruiting

Shewmaker enters his second season with the Chanticleers after having spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach with the Vanderbilt baseball program.

Assistant Director— Player Development & Recruiting

Assistant Director for Speed, Strength and Conditioning

Michael Thomson joined the Coastal Carolina University athletics department as an assistant director of speed, strength and conditioning in February 2023. He works directly with the baseball and golf programs.

Assistant Athletic Trainer

Roithmayr, started working at Coastal Carolina University in August of 2023. She oversees the Baseball and Golf teams. Amanda is originally from Tampa, Florida and received her Masters of Athletic Training degree from the University of South Florida.