Baseball

Head Coach Jim Scholten

Phone: 712-274-5248 

E-Mail: scholten@morningside.edu

Jim Scholten will enter his 27th season as the Mustangs' head baseball coach when the Mustangs open the 2010 campaign.

Scholten has a 572-566-4 career record at Morningside. In 2008 he led the Mustangs to a 32-17 record and the GPAC Post-Season Tournament championship to qualify for the NAIA Region III Championships as the No. 1 seed. He guided the Mustangs to a 42-18-1 record during the 2005 campaign to set a school record for victories in a season. The Mustangs had a .697 winning percentage that season for the school's best victory rate since a 15-6 finish (.714) in 1960.

Scholten was named the 2000 North Central Conference Coach of the Year after he guided the Mustangs to the championship game of the conference tournament.

Scholten was an assistant coach for the Sioux City Explorers of the Northern Independent League during the 2004 and 2005 seasons.

He was elected to the Iowa Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1997. He compiled a 252-94 career record for a .728 winning percentage in 12 years as a head coach at Mason City Newman and Nevada High Schools. Scholten led Mason City Newman to the 1977 Iowa Class 1A state tournament. Scholten directed Nevada to Heart of Iowa Conference championships in five of his seven seasons there.

Scholten is a 1970 graduate of Loras College.

Scholten holds the South Dakota amateur baseball record for three pitching victories during a four-day state tournament. He accomplished the feat in 1970.

Assistant Coach Chris Grossman

Grossman is in his first season with the Mustangs and is the Mustangs’ hitting coach and catching coach.

Grossman was an All-Pac 10 catcher during his collegiate career at the University of California and played for the St. Louis Cardinals’ organization in the Midwest and Florida State Leagues during the 2007 season. He currently plays for the Brockton (Mass.) Rox of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball. He was the team’s regular catcher in 2009 and hit .296 with 35 RBIs.

He played for the Sioux City Explorers of the American Association in 2005, 2006, and 2008. Grossman was named an American Association all-star in 2006 when he had career highs 16 home runs, 56 RBIs, and 30 doubles. He ranked fourth in the league with his 30 doubles.

Assistant Coach Rory Jackson

Jackson is in his first season with the Mustangs. He works with the Mustangs’ infielders and is the team’s first base coach. Jackson was the head baseball coach for three years at Spalding University in Louisville, Ky., and was also an assistant coach there for six years. Spalding won over 300 games during his time there and made NAIA College World Series appearances in 2002, 2003, and 2005.

His coaching career began as an assistant at Sioux City Heelan High School. He later coached at DuPont Manual High School in Louisville and Omaha Central High School.

Jackson, a native of Calgary, Albert, Canada, graduated from Briar Cliff in 1999 and earned a master’s degree from the University of Louisville in 2005.

Assistant Coach Chris Maglich

Chris Maglich is in his first season and will serve as the Mustangs’ junior varsity coach.

Maglich is a native of Columbia, Mo., and was an all-conference infielder during his collegiate career at Northwest Missouri State University.

Assistant Coach Matt Stevenson

Matt Stevenson, in his second season with the Mustangs, will coach the team's outfielders and be the team's third base coach.

Stevenson is a grades K-8 physical education teacher at Mater Dei School in Sioux City. He is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and Spencer High School. Stevenson was a starter on Spencer's 1997 Iowa Class 3A state championship team and helped lead the team to a runner-up finish at the 1999 state tourney.