USD Baseball 2009

Assistant Coach MARK VIRAMONTES JI Fourth Season as Assistant Coach

Mark Viramontes is entering his fourth season as an assistant 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, while 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 his first season at the helm, Viramontes guided the Dragons to a franchise-best 25-19 overall record. In the summer 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 University of L.A. in 2005 . As an assistant at East L.A.College from 1999-2004,Viramontes helped the Huskies to three post– season 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 would later become an Associate Scout for the Cincinnati Reds,evaluating baseball talent in inner-city L.A. Dir. ofBaseball Ops. RAMON OROZCO Third Season as Dir. ofBaseball Ops. Orozco brings a wealth of coaching experience to the USD coaching staff as he was most recently an assistant coach in Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League (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 un– der current USD 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 franchise-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 Com– munity 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 League Baseball Draft. Botts debuted with the Texas Rangers in 2005. Orozco played his college baseball at Los Angeles Mission College and California Lutheran University.While at CLU he was a member of two Division Ill Western Regional teams. His senior year Orozco helped CLU win aWestern Regional Champion– ship and a College World Series appearance.CLU finished 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 is a Masters degree in Educational Administration from the University of La Verne that he received in 2005 . Ramon Orozco is entering his third season with the Toreros 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 addition to assisting with on-campus recruit– ing.Orozco also serves as the liaison for visiting teams and campus affairs.