Coaching Staff
Head Coach
Head Coach Greg Stewart |
Greg Stewart
After engineering the program's first-ever softball national championship in 2011, Greg Stewart will enter his eighth year as the softball coach at Oregon Tech. In seven seasons Stewart's teams have amassed an impressive 226-107-2 mark including a school best 37-6 (.860) in 2006. After the 2011 national title Stewart was named NAIA Coach of the Year, the first Cascade Collegiate Conference school coach to be honored as the softball coach of the year. Stewart and his 2011 staff were most recently named the 2011 NFCA NAIA National Coaching Staff of the Year. Stewart was a Region I Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2008 and earned Cascade Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2011 after a 42-13 mark and winning both the CCC and regular season tournament titles.
Stewart led the Owls to just their second national championship event and their first since 1997. Ranked No. 18 in the final NAIA Coaches’ Top 25 poll, Oregon Tech became the first team in the CCC to win the national championship in the 31-year history of the event.
The Texas native grew up in Houston then headed north to Sterling College (Kansas) where he received a degree in accounting while playing four years of baseball. As a senior Stewart garnered first team all-conference and team MVP recognition. After assisting in football and baseball Greg took the head baseball job at Sterling in the fall of 1997. In 1999 the Warriors won the KCAC title and received a Great Plains regional tournament berth. After four years as the head coach at Sterling, Greg moved on to Virginia where he took the head baseball job at Bluefield College during the 2002 and 2003 seasons. In 2003 the Rams of Bluefield recorded their first winning season in six years. Stewart then moved on to Portland, Oregon where he became the assistant baseball coach at Lewis and Clark for the 2004 season before moving south to Klamath Falls. Greg's lovely wife, Nellie, is the Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students. Greg is the proud father of two daughters, Aubrey 11, Lindey 4 and step-daughter, Lanie 3.
Associate Head Coach
Associate Head Coach Bill Fagan |
Bill Fagan
Bill Fagan begins his 16th year with the Owl softball program, 15 years as an assistant and first as the Associate Head Coach. Fagan was instrumental in eight Cascade Conference crowns over the past 15 seasons along with Tech's first-ever berth to the NAIA National Tournament in 1997 and NAIA National Championship in 2011. Bill has long-term ties to Oregon Tech where he played baseball for Tech from 1973-1977 and was an All-District catcher and third baseman. An Oregon Tech graduate with a Bachelors degrees in Environmental and Civil Engineering, Fagan currently works as an Environmental Engineer with Jeld-Wen Inc. Fagan has over 30 years of coaching experience at all levels of baseball and softball including Little League, ASA, High School and College. Bill served as the assistant men's baseball coach at Tech for three years and coached two state championship softball teams during the summer. Bill and his wife Lonna have three children Addie, Grace and Bess, all who played softball at Oregon Tech. They are also the proud grandparents of Vannie, Noah and Willa.
Assistant Coaches
Assistant Coach Bobby Mick |
Bobby Mick
Bobby Mick begins his first season as an assistant coach for the 2012 Oregon Tech softball team.
Mick played college baseball at University of Arizona where he was a member of the 1992 Pac-10 championship team. Mick then transferred to College of Idaho where he competed for the Yotes from 1994-1996 earning the Team MVP award, along with 1st team all-conference, 1st team Far West Region and NAIA HM All-American honors his senior season.
A 1996 graduate of C of I, Mick then moved back to Klamath Falls where he was a Physical Education instructor at his alma mater, Klamath Union High School, from 1996-2005. Mick was an assistant coach for the KUHS Pelican baseball team from 1997-2005 and spent his summers coaching with the Klamath Falls American Legion baseball team during that same time period.
Mick is currently a Production Manager for OneBuild Inc. Bobby and his amazing bride, Brenda, a NAIA All-American for Oregon Tech in softball, have two daughters, Kaila (10) and Malia (7), and a son, Nolan (5).
Assistant Coach Andria Wheatley |
Andria Wheatley
After spending four seasons playing for Oregon Tech, Andria Wheatley begins her first season as an assistant coach when the 2012 campaign begins.
A four year starter for Tech, Wheatley played multiple infield positions prior to becoming an outfielder her final two seasons for the Owls. Andria was also an Owl Team Captain both her junior and senior year, playing a major role in Tech’s national title run in 2011.
“Wheat” finished her career ranked in the top ten in two offensive categories for the Owls, including 8th overall in career runs scored (124) and 10th in career stolen bases (26-for-28) over her four seasons. Andria compiled a solid .318 career batting average along with a .400 career on base percentage for Oregon Tech. Wheatley currently ranks 11th in career doubles (32) and highlighted a brilliant career with her first-ever homerun versus Lubbock Christian during Tech’s title run at the NAIA national tournament.
Andria is an echocardiography and communication studies major from Springfield, Ore.