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| Mumma ('90-'92) is UMBC's all-time HR leader |
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The College World Series hasn't even crowned a national champion, yet America East already has two new baseball head coaches. As
we wrote about a couple of weeks ago, Hartford named UConn assistant Justin Blood its new coach. More recently, after
John Jancuska stepped down from his post as UMBC head coach from 1978-2011,
assistant Bob Mumma succeeds him as new Retrievers coach.
Mumma has only been the UMBC Head Coach for a few days now, however he is already a member of the UMBC Athletics' Hall of Fame and has nearly 20 years of service to the program as both a player and an assistant.
Mumma was a standout (note the pronunciation: MOO-ma) for the Retrievers from 1990-92 with a career batting average hovering around .350 and leading UMBC to its first-ever Division I NCAA Baseball Tournament as an at-large team. He went on to be drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 13th Round of the MLB Draft and
played minor league ball for two years after which returning to Catonsville to assist the baseball program for the last 15 years.
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| Mumma played 2 years in the White Sox system. |
The goal for Mumma must now be to change the culture of the program and return UMBC baseball to the success it had when he was a student-athlete there. The Retrievers, who have made the four-team America East Championship once (2008) in the eight years they have been members of the league, will look to be more competitive in future years, and UMBC believes Mumma can do the trick.
