USD Baseball 2007

USD COACHING STAFF

The start of the 2007 season marks the start of Ra– mon Orozco's tenure with the Toreros baseball team under head coach Rich Hill. Orozco brings a wealth of coaching experience to the USO coaching staff as he was most recently an assis– tant coach under current USO Assistant Coach Mark Viramontes for the DuPage Dragons of the Central Il– linois Collegiate Summer League (CICL). During his first season with the team, he helped guide them to the regular-season Co-Championship. During the season, Orozco helped the team post a franchise-best 25-19 overall record . Prior to his work with the DuPage Dragons , Orozco has served as an assistant coach for Glendale Com– munity College helping serve as an academic advisor and mentor to the student-athletes, while also assisting the head coach with all aspects of the game. Orozco earned his bachelor of science degree (Math– ematics) in 1999 from California Lutheran University. He also holds his two masters degrees, one in Cross– Cultural Teaching that he earned in 2002 from National University, and the other is a Masters degree in Educa– tion from the University of Laverne that he received in 2005.

A native of East Los Angeles , Calif. , Mark Vira– montes brings seven years of collegiate coaching experience to USO. The 2007 season will be his second as an assistant at San Diego under head coach Rich Hill. Viramontes assumes the roll of USD's catching coach and field supervisor, while ?lso working closely with the team's hitters as an in– tricate part of the Toreros coaching staff. In the summer of 2006 , Viramontes took over as head coach for the DuPage Dragons of the Central Illinois Collegiate Summer League (CICL) . During his first season at the helm, Viramontes guided the Dragons to a franchise-best 25-19 overall record. His most recent coaching experience came in han– dling a wide range of duties as an assistant at Divi– sion II California State University of L.A. in 2005 . As an assistant at East L.A. College from 1999-2004, Viramontes helped the Huskies to three postseason trips including a state finals appearance in 2000. Vi– ramontes has also spent the 2004 & 2005 season's coaching in the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) with the Brewster Whitecaps. His coaching career began assisting the 1995 var– sity program at James A. Garfield High School in Los Angeles and at San Gabriel High School from 1996- 1998. He would later become an Associate Scout for the Cincinnati Reds, evaluating baseball talent in inner-city L.A.