USD Baseball 2008

mark VIRAMONTES Assistant Coach Catchers Third Season M ark Viramontes is entering his third season as an assis– tant for the Toreros baseball program under head coach Rich Hill. He brings over 13 years of coaching experience to the Toreros coaching staff. Viramontes assumes the roll of USD's catching coach and field supervisor, wh ile also working closely with the team's hitters as an intricate 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 hisfirst season at the helm,Viramontes guid– ed the Dragons to a franchise-best 25-19 overall record. In the sum– mer of 2007, Viramontes also helped lead the team to the league championship game. His most recent coaching experience came in handling a wide range of duties as an assistant at Division II California State Univer– sity 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. Viramontes 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 varsity program at James A. Garfield High School in Los Angeles and at San Gabriel High School from 1996-1998. He wou ld later become an Associate Scout for the Cincinnati Reds, evaluating baseball talent in inner– city L.A. daniel MAGNESS Undergraduate Assistant Coach First Season D aniel Magness is entering his first season as an under– graduate assistant coach for the Toreros in the 2008 sea– son for head coach Rich Hill. Magness has spent the past two seasons as the staring first base– man for the Toreros and helped lead the team to back-to-back Regional berths. In his sen ior campaign he helped the team win the West Coast Conference championship, a program-best 43-18 record, a program-best No. 4 national ranking and a program-first No.8 national seed in the NCAA Regionals. As a senior he hit .286 with 63 hits and seven doubles in route to earn ing an AII-WCC hon– orable mention accolade.

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ramon OROZCO Dir. ofBaseball Operations Second Season Cal Lutheran (1999) R amon Orozco is entering his second season with the To– reros baseball program. Orozco is responsible for the off– the-field operation of the baseball office. He assists head coach Rich Hill with all team and recruiting travel in addi- tion to assisting with on-campus recruiting.Orozco also serves as the liaison for visiting teams and campus affairs. Orozco brings a wealth of coaching experience to the USO coaching staff as he was most recently an assistant coach in Ha– waii Collegiate Baseball Leag ue (HCBL). Orozco was in charge of the offense for the HCBL champion Kamuela Paniolos. His team led the league in homeruns and was second in total runs scored. Ramon has also been an assistant under current USO Assistant Coach Mark Viramontes of the DuPage Dragons of the Central Illinois Collegiate Summer League. During his first season as a pitching coach, he helped guide them to the regular- season Co-Championship. During the season, Orozco helped the team post a franchi se-best 25-19 overall record and the second lowest earned run average in the CICL. Prior to work with Kamuela Paniolos and the DuPage Dragons, Orozco has served as an assistant coach for Glendale Community College. He served as the Vaqueros infield and first base coach. In addition to his coaching duties, Orozco served as an academic adviser and mentor to his players. Eight of his players moved onto four year universities and one player (Jason Botts) was selected in the Major Leag ue Baseball Draft. Botts debuted with the Texas Rangers in 2005. Orozco played his college baseball at Los Angeles Mission Col– lege and California Lutheran University. While at CLU he was a member of two Division Ill Western Regional teams. His senior yea r Orozco helped CLU win a Western Regional Championship and a College World Series appearance. CLU fini shed eighth in the final polls of 1998. Orozco earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in 1999 from California Lutheran University. He also holds two masters degrees, one in Cross-Cultural Education that he earned in 2002 from National University,and the other isaMasters degree in Educational Administration from the University of La Verne that he received in 2005.

Magness is finishing his degree in 2008 here at USO and is expect– ed to complete the degree in Business Administration.