Matt Borgschulte returns to the Southeast Missouri coaching staff in 2016 as the Redhawks' hitting coach.
His other duties will include assisting with recruiting, preforming administrative duties related to the baseball program, as well as coaching the outfielders.
Borgschulte was the volunteer assistant coach during Southeast’s 2015 Ohio Valley Conference Championship season a year ago.
As the volunteer assistant, he assisted with an offense that ranked 12th nationally in batting average (.303), hit the 13th most doubles in the nation (129), recorded the 12th most hits (635), ranked seventh in home runs (66), sixth in on base percentage (.405), fifth in runs (473), third in scoring (8.0 runs per game), and third in base on balls (326).
As the outfield coach, Borgschulte’s expertise showed as utility player Andy Lennington earned Second Team All-OVC honors and Trevor Ezell picked up OVC All-Freshman Team and NCBWA Freshman All-American accolades. Lennington and Ezell each saw significant playing time in the outfield in 2015.
Following the 2015 campaign, Borgschulte was hired as an assistant coach at Tusculum College in Greenville, Tennessee.
Prior to his first stint with the Redhawks, Borgschulte spent a year as the volunteer at his alma mater Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. There, Borgschulte introduced the use of in-depth video analysis for hitting which helped increase the team’s batting average, total bases per game, and runs per game. Borgschulte’s video analysis program helped lead the Panthers to a Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship. He also implemented a new strength and conditioning program. He worked mainly with the outfielders.
Borgschulte joined the Drury staff after playing two years with the Panthers. As a senior in 2013, he became the first All-American selection in the program’s history. The Daktronics All-America Second Team and Midwest Region Player of the Year honoree set new Drury single-season marks for homers (11), runs batted in (60) and total bases (125) while finishing in the Top 30 nationally in all three categories.
The St. Louis, Missouri native transferred to Drury from Western Kentucky. Borgschulte graduated from Drury in December 2013 with a degree in Sport Management.
Borgschulte and his wife Austin were married this past September.
