THIS IShouston baseball

•Two College World Series Appearances•Three NCAA Super Regional Berths•17 NCAA Regional Appearances•Eight Conference Titles•Four Conference Tournament Titles•11 seasons of 40 wins or more

Michael Bourn, ‘032-Time NL All-Star

AHISTORY OF SUCCESS

•Nine USA Baseball National Team members•127 Selections in MLB Draft•23 NCAA All-America Honorees•Four Conference USA Player of the Year Selections•One National Player of the Year - Brad Lincoln

HOUSTON BASEBALLCOUGARS IN THE DRAFT

•127 PLAYERS TAKEN IN THE MLB DRAFT

•22 PLAYERS IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES

•31 PLAYERS TAKEN IN TOP 10 ROUNDS

•3 PLAYERS TAKEN IN 1ST ROUND

•14 of the last 15 YEARS WITH PLAYER SELECTED

HOUSTON BASEBALLMAJOR LEAGUERS

HOUSTON BASEBALLCURRENT MLB PLAYERS

MICHAEL BOURN ‘03BRAD LINCOLN ‘06

JESSE CRAIN ‘02

CHRIS SNYDER ‘02FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF MLB PLAYERS

HOME OF HOUSTON BASEBALLCOUGAR FIELD

HOME OF HOUSTON BASEBALLCOUGAR FIELD

HOME OF HOUSTON BASEBALLCOUGAR FIELD

HOME OF HOUSTON BASEBALLBULLPEN AREA

With a Major League style look, the Houston home bullpen is equipped with three dirt mounds and field turf surface throughout. The bullpen area pro-vides the Cougars with a short-game practice area, while being fully lit for night time practice and workouts.

HOME OF HOUSTON BASEBALLINDOOR HITTING FACILITY

The Cougars can take advantage of one of the region’s top indoor hitting facilities, located along the west end of the stadium. The practice facility is designed to allow hitting, pitching and infield practice.

HOME OF HOUSTON BASEBALLCLUBHOUSE

HOME OF HOUSTON BASEBALLCLUBHOUSE

HOUSTON ATHLETICS’ATHLETICS/ALUMNI CENTER

• $29.1 million, 220,000-square foot facility • Funds donated by alumni John and Rebecca Moores• Hall of Fame area• 120-yard AstroTurf indoor practice field• Indoor track, four indoor tennis courts, a hardwood basketball/volley-

ball court and two SportCourts• Locker rooms for 13 Cougar athletics teams• 16,500-square foot weight room• State-of-the-art athletic training room• Academic Center for Excellence (ACE)• Meeting rooms and athletics department offices

HOUSTON ATHLETICS’strength & conditioning

HOUSTON ATHLETICS’sports medicine

HOUSTON BASEBALLEQUIPMENT

•NIKE• LOUISVILLE SLUGGER

HOUSTON BASEBALLUNIFORMS

HOUSTON BASEBALLNATIONAL MEDIA EXPOSURE

•Five local television affiliates covering all major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX)

•Houston Chronicle, largest daily newspaper in Texas; ninth largest daily newspaper in nation

•Four sports-only radio stations

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EVERY YEAR HOUSTON PLAYS IN THEHOUSTON COLLEGE CLASSIC

Competes in the nation’s top college tournament, the College Classic, held every March at Minute Maid Park--home of the Houston Astros.

HOUSTON COUGAR BASEBALLTRADITION

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONCAMPUS LIFE

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONCAMPUS LIFE

FRESHMAN HOUSINGCOUGAR VILLAGE

• State-of-the-art freshman residential facility for Houston students• Located eight minutes from Downtown, Hermann Park and the Museum

District• Comes with laundry facilities• Fully furnished rooms• All utilities included

HOUSTON BASEBALLCOACHING STAFF

HEAD COACH: TODD WHITTING

ASSISTANT COACH: TRIP COUCH

ASSISTANT COACH: FRANK ANDERSON

ASSISTANT COACH: RYAN SHOTZBERGER

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING COACH: LEE FIOCCHI

HEAD COACHTODD WHITTING 9

• 2013 will mark third year as head coach at Houston• Named head coach on July 1st, 2010• Was associate head coach at TCU for 7 years• Coached at Houston as an assistant for 8 years before going to TCU• Been in 13 NCAA regional tournaments, 5 super regional tournaments and

one trip to the College World Series in his 17 years of coaching• Has coached over 60 players that have been drafted• As recruiting coordinator, signed 4 classes that were ranked in the top 10 in

the country• Has coached 16 Major League Players

@toddwhitting

HEAD COACHTODD WHITTING

“With an award-winning background and strong recruiting ties in Houston, the state and across the country, Whitting was the best choice to lead the Cougars into the fu-ture,” Director of Athletics Mack Rhoades said.

“I associate Todd with the greatest period in Houston baseball history, so obviously it made sense that UH went after him. He did a great job building TCU to what it is today with the constraints that it had being a private school. By putting Todd at UH where he doesn’t have those constraints, where he is working at a public school in an urban area with a lot of recruiting possibilities, I believe that Houston can succeed like a Texas or a Cal State Fullerton. Todd’s work in recruiting over the years speaks for itself. It’s an ex-cellent hire for Houston, and it’s the best hire that they could have made.” Kendall Rogers, Rivals.com

“Coach Whitting is a great players’ coach who relates well to all his players. He was the main reason that I came to Houston when he recruited me. He is one of the top recruit-ers in the country and is going to bring outstanding players to UH.” 2006 National Player of the Year and current MLB pitcher Brad Lincoln

ASSISTANT COACHTRIP COUCH

• 9th Year at University of Houston• Recruiting Coordinator• Scouted for the Arizona

Diamondbacks for 9 years• Also has coached at Louisiana

-Lafayette and Texas• Member of TEAM USA coaching

staff in 1999

@TripCouch11

ASSISTANT COACHFRANK ANDERSON

• First season at Houston • Has 9 years of head coaching experience at

Oklahoma State• Led Cowboys to 6 Regional appearances• Recorded 3 straight 41-win seasons (2006-08)• Led OSU to first Big 12 crown in program history

in 2004• Coached All-American Andrew Heaney to Big 12

Pitcher of the Year in 2012• Served as pitching coach at the University of

Texas from 2000-03• Led UT to the 2002 National Title• Helped the Longhorns to

3 College World Series appearances• Spent 9 seasons (1990-99) as an assistant at Tex-

as Tech prior to joining UT’s staff• Considered one of the top pitching coaches in

the country

ASSISTANT COACHRYAN SHOTZBERGER

@ryanshotzberger

• 2nd year at the University of Houston• Hitting Coach and 3rd Base Coach• Coached a Johnny Bench Award winner (Bryan Holaday)• Has Coached 25 players that have been drafted• Coached at TCU for 5 years prior to Houston• Coached in Omaha in 2010

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING COACHLEE FIOCCHI

• 1st year working with the Cougar Baseball program

• Certifications: Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) & USA

Weightlifting (USAW)

• Founder and Director of Dynamic Sports Training

• Worked under world-renowned performance specialist Pete Bommaritoat at

Perfect Competition in Davie, Florida

• Became the Director of Major League Baseball off-season training

• Worked with numerous MLB stars including most notably Magglio Ordonez,

Michael Bourn, Carl Crawford, Trevor Bauer

• Also worked the 2007 & 2008 NFL Combine Prep strength program

• Has trained 27 MLB players, over 100 NFL players, and prepared over 100 for

the NFL Combine

• Graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a B.S. in physical education

• Played football at EIU and helped team to bowl and conference championship

wins as well as the program’s highest national ranking in 2001

SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST & MENTAL TRAINING COACHBRIAN CAIN

• Has been working with Houston Baseball since Fall 2010

• One of the world’s most sought after mental conditioning and peak perfor-mance coaches.

• One of the top young motivational speakers and a #1 best selling inspira-tional author

• Former high school teacher, coach and athletic director as well as college baseball coach and college adjunct professor of sport psychology

• Worked with some of the best coaches, athletes and teams in the country in-cluding Ultimate Fighting Championship World Champion Georges St. Pierre,

the Washington Nationals and over 20 NCAA championship winning programs including the 2012 NCAA National Champion, University of Alabama Softball

• Cain works with over 40 NCAA schools all over the country helping them to become NCAA Champions

• Comes to campus and trains coaches and athletes to specifically apply the most beneficial mental toughness training techniques and peak performance coaching to baseball

• Spends anywhere from one to four full days at a time and comes to campus one to five times a year depending on your commitment to the mental conditioning program

HOUSTON ATHLETICS’team nutritionist

• Tara Boening joined the Athletics Department as a performance nutritionist in April 2010.

• Only full-time nutrionist in Conference USA

• Involved in nutrition education and program operations for all 16 athletics teams.

• Boening also assists with menu planning, food service operations, catering for team travel and pregame meals and assists with body composition testing and assess-ment for all student-athletes.

• She is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the Texas Dietetic Association and is a National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer.

THECITY OF HOUSTON

THECITY OF HOUSTON

•Fourth largest city in the nation•Top attractions include Space Center Houston, the Houston

Zoo, Downtown Aquarium, The Galleria, Moody Gardens•Home to the Houston Astros, Houston Texans and Houston

Rockets•Leading city in energy, medicine and aerospace industries•More than 300 days of sunshine annually•Average high temperature in winter- 66 degrees

THEUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON• Tier One University, placing UH among institutions known for world-class research,

academic excellence, exceptional student body and the highest levels of innovation, creativity and scholastic achievement.

• 560-acre campus abounds with parks, fountains, plazas, sculptures, trees and recre-ational fields.

• Faculty members who hold the Nobel Peace Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, the Na-tional Medal of Science

• More than 41,000 students attend 12 academic colleges and the multidisciplinary Honors College.

• Offers more than 100 undergraduate majors and minors. • Awarded more than 250,000 degrees with approx. 80 percent of alumni remaining

in the Houston metropolitan area.• Founded in 1927

Atier one university

• In January 2011, the University of Houston joined the ranks of the top research universities in the nation with the announcement by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching that placed UH in its top category of research universities.

• The designation makes the University of Houston one of only three public Carne-

gie-designated Tier One research universities in Texas, along with the University of Texas and Texas A&M.

• A Tier One university provides a nationally competitive learning environment for its students. We know that even though our graduates work in the Houston region, they compete in the global marketplace and, therefore, their skill set needs to be globally competitive. A Tier One university provides greater opportunities for stu-dents to work with world-class faculty in nationally ranked programs and engage in cutting-edge research and learning. Consequently, their degrees have a brand that is nationally recognized and globally respected.

• Achieved the highest team GPA in program history in Fall 2012 under head coach Todd Whitting (3.17)

• 27 student athletes recorded a 3.0 or higher in the Fall of 2012 • 5 straight semesters of 3.0 GPA or higher as a team• 10 players named to Dean’s List in Fall 2012• Tutors provided for all players when needed• Full time academic support staff led by Lori Selzer• Tier One University- only three in Texas• Cougar Pride Leadership Program• Academic Center includes student-athlete only computer labs, large classroom and

breakout study rooms for small group projects• In 2011-12, a record 164 Houston student-athletes were named to the Commissioner’s

Honor Roll• Second straight year a record number was recorded -- in 2010-11, 140 were named• The 164 named was the third-best total among C-USA member schools• The baseball team led all teams at UH with 25 honorees

HOUSTON BASEBALL’SACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON’SACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

•The Class of 2016 is the strongest class ever, selected from the larg-est pool of applicants ever at UH. More than 23,000 students ap-plied for 3,300 freshmen slots.

•Thirty-three percent of the enrolled class ranked in the Top 10 per-cent of their high school and scored an average of 1134 on SAT. The class consists of 34 National Merit Scholars and 54 Tier One Schol-ars! -UH President/Chancellor Dr. Renu Khator

  

•The Princeton Review named the Entrepreneurship program in the Bauer School of Business as the # 1 ranked program in country.

HOUSTON BASEBALLSUMMER BALL

University of Houston players are placed regularly in the top summer leagues in the country including Cape

Cod and Alaska.

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