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Dave Schrage enters his third season as the head coach of the Butler baseball program in 2019. Schrage has lead the Bulldogs to back-to-back 30+ win seasons. Last season, Schrage posted his career high in wins at Butler with 34.

Schrage lead Butler to their first BIG EAST Tournament appearance last season as well as their first BIG EAST Tournament win against Seton Hall. The Bulldogs posted a conference record of 9-8 in 2018.
Through his three seasons at Butler, Schrage has coached two Bulldogs into the MLB. Connor Mitchell was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 27th round of the 2018 MLB Draft. Garrett Christman signed a free agent deal with the San Francisco Giants in the summer of 2018.
Improved pitching and great team defense helped Butler win 16 away games in 2017. The 2016 team had gone 4-22 on the road the year prior. The turnaround under Schrage was one of the biggest improvements in the NCAA. BU recorded 17 more wins in 2017 than they did in 2016.
One special highlight for the pitching staff came on May 10, 2017 when the Bulldogs no-hit Purdue in West Lafayette. Five different players touched the rubber as BU went on to win 4-2. That game was part of a bigger story as BU went 7-0 against in-state rivals during the 2017 season. The 'Dawgs picked up wins over Fort Wayne (3x), DePauw, Ball State, Indiana and Purdue. BU had not defeated both Indiana and Purdue in the same season since 1995.
Individual honors went to Tyler Houston, Jordan Lucio and Jeff Schank in 2017. Houston was recognized as a First Team All-BIG EAST selection while Lucio and Schank were added to the Second Team.
Before joining Butler, Schrage won 732 games during head coaching stops at SDSU, Notre Dame, Evansville, Northern Illinois, Northern Iowa, and Waldorf (Iowa). He coached players who had earned all-conference honors 75 times and 47 of his former student-athletes have gone on to play professionally. Ten of his players have earned Freshman All-American accolades.
Schrage was hired to take over the reins of the Jackrabbit baseball program prior to the 2012 season. After posting an 18-33-1 record in his first season at South Dakota State, Schrage directed a big turnaround in 2013, leading SDSU its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament at the Division I level. The Jackrabbits, who ended the season with a 35-24 overall record, won their inaugural Summit League postseason tournament title and advanced to the Eugene Regional of the NCAA Tournament.
The Jackrabbits again contended for a Summit League title during the 2015 season, posting an overall record of 33-23 and a second-place mark of 18-11 in league play. Schrage led SDSU to Summit League Tournament appearances in four of his five seasons.
Prior to South Dakota State, Schrage was head coach at Notre Dame for four seasons, leading the Fighting Irish to a 119-104-1 record from 2007-10. After posting a .500 record (28-28) his first season in South Bend, Schrage put Notre Dame back in contention for postseason play with a 33-21-1 record in 2008 and a 36-23 mark in 2009.
Schrage has previously found success in building programs, including a four-year stint at Evansville from 2003-06, during which he guided the Purple Aces to a 130-108 record. Evansville improved its win total each of his four seasons, from 24 in 2003 to 43 in 2006. Schrage earned Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year honors for the third time in 2006 as Evansville won both the regular season and tournament conference titles, earning a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Purple Aces advanced all the way to the finals of the Charlottesville Regional, knocking off host Virginia before falling to South Carolina in the championship.
A Chicago native, Schrage directed a dramatic turnaround in his home state during a three-year run at Northern Illinois from 2000-02. After inheriting a team that was 4-51-1 the year before he arrived, Schrage’s squad turned in a 20-game improvement with a 24-33 record in his first season and then led the Huskies to a winning season in 2001 with a 28-27 overall mark. He was named runner-up for National Coach of the Year by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper in 2000.
Schrage began his collegiate coaching career as a graduate assistant at St. Thomas University (Fla.) in 1984. He later returned to his alma mater, Creighton University, as an assistant coach for two seasons.
From 1986-87, Schrage coached the Queensland Rams club team in Brisbane, Australia, before returning stateside as he gained his first head coaching job at Waldorf College, a junior college in Forest City, Iowa (1988-90).
Schrage then spent nine seasons as head coach at the University of Northern Iowa, where he was named Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year in 1995 and 1997. His teams improved from two league victories in UNI’s first season in the MVC in 1992 to 18 during the 1997 campaign.
As a collegiate player, Schrage was an all-conference outfielder at Creighton, batting .400 as a junior and .433 his senior season. He also was an Academic All-America honoree during his senior campaign in 1983. Schrage was honored on the MVC’s Centennial Celebration baseball team and is the only person in league history to earn all-conference honors and be named MVC Coach of the Year in baseball.

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