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Casey Crook

Casey Crook

Casey Crook enters his 30th season as head coach of the Long Beach City College baseball program in 2023.

The 2021 season was canceled, and the Vikings ended the season early in 2020 due to COVID-19 with a 17-5 overall record and was sitting in second place in the South Coast Conference with an 8-2 record. Despite ending the season early, seven athletes signed NLIs to move on to the next level.

In 2019, Crook led the Vikings to a SCC-South Conference Championship. The Vikings made a SoCal Super Regional Playoff appearance and finished the season with an overall record of 28-17 and a conference record of 17-5.

In 2017, Crook led the Vikings to win their second-consecutive SCC-South Conference Championship. He took home his seventh SCC-South Coach of the Year award after closing the season with an overall record of 30-16-1, going 17-5 in conference play.

The Vikings boasted 10 SCC-South Conference selections for their outstanding performances during the season. LBCC fell in the CCCAA Sectional Playoff Round against Grosmont after strong offensive and defensive performances in Regional and Super Regional play.

In 2014, Crook led the Vikings on a late-season rally, winning six straight and 11 of their last 13 regular-season games, to earn a share of the South Coast Conference championship and a Southern California Regional playoff berth. After falling to Santa Ana College in the opening round of the playoffs, LBCC closed the season with a 21-17 overall record after going 15-6 in conference play.

In 2006, Crook’s Vikings completed the greatest season in LBCC history. Long Beach won a school-record 41 games and closed the year with a 41-10 overall record on its way to the school’s first state championship since 1976.

For his outstanding season, Crook was named California Community College Coach of the Year as well as American Baseball Coaches Association Coach of the Year.

LBCC also won its first SCC title since 1996, as Crook was named SCC Coach of the Year. Overall, Crook has led Long Beach to conference championships in 1996, 2006, 2009, and 2014.

During his tenure, the Vikings have made playoff appearances in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2014. Crook won his 400th career game at LBCC in 2010 and begins 2015 with an overall record of 489-384-6. He is just 11 victories away from the 500-win milestone.

In ‘96, his squad went 27-15-1 and tied Mt. San Antonio College for a South Coast Conference championship. That season, Crook was also named SCC Coach of the Year.

Prior to coaching, Crook played shortstop and outfield for four seasons (1987-90) at Briar Cliff College in Sioux City, Iowa.

At Briar Cliff, Crook was a two-time GTE Academic All-American. He finished his career as the school’s all-time leader in at-bats (697), hits (255), RBI (149), runs (178), and stolen bases (96). He is the school’s single-season leader in hits (76), at-bats (203) and triples (6). Crook still holds school record for triples in a season (6), triples in a career (12), runs in a career (178) and stolen bases in a career (96). He also remains on the school’s Top 10 chart in seven major statistical categories.

Crook helped the Chargers to two NAIA District 15 Championships. In 2005, Crook was inducted into Briar Cliff’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

In 1991, he took his first coaching job as an assistant at Long Beach State and helped guide the 49ers to a College World Series appearance.

In the summer of ’91, he coached Carroll High School (Carroll, Iowa) to a 21-6 record and a No. 9 state ranking.

Crook coached one more season at LBSU before joining the Viking coaching staff as an assistant in 1993. He then took over as head coach the following year in 1994.

A native of Pullman, Wash., Crook graduated from Pullman High School in 1985. He attended Washington State for a year before transferring to Briar Cliff. He double majored in Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) and Mathematics from Briar Cliff in 1990. He then went on earn his Master’s degree in Physical Education from Long Beach State (1994).

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