Chad Oxendine
9/21/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Chad Oxendine
Volunteer Assistant Coach
Coastal Carolina, 2004 - 1st Year
A member of four conference championship teams and four NCAA Regional teams as a player in college, Chad Oxendine has joined the Alabama staff as the volunteer assistant coach. He replaces former volunteer assistant B.J. Green, who was promoted to full-time assistant this summer.
Oxendine played four years at Coastal Carolina and led the Chanticleers to Big South Conference titles in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Coastal Carolina also played in four straight NCAA Regionals during his career.
Oxendine was a four-year letterman and co-captain his junior and senior years for Coach Gary Gilmore at Coastal Carolina. Chad played in 198 games for the Chanticleers and batted .281 (160-for-570) with four home runs and 96 RBI. He batted .333 (30-for-90) as a redshirt freshman in 2001, with two home runs and 16 RBI. As a senior, he hit .302 (57-for-189) with two home runs and a career-best 35 RBI. He also wrapped up his playing days with a career-high 12 doubles in 2004.
Following his career at Coastal Carolina, Oxendine signed as a free agent with the Chicago White Sox, where he spent one season with the Bristol (Va.) White Sox in the short season Appalachian League.
Oxendine was the head coach for the Front Royal Cardinals in the Valley League, where his team posted a 22-21 record and made the playoffs. During the the 2006 season, he served as the volunteer assistant coach at UNC Wilmington. The team posted a 42-22 overall record and played in the NCAA Chapel Hill (N.C.) Regional.
A 1999 graduate of Avalon Academy in Dillon, S.C., Oxendine led the Falcons to the AA State Championship, posting a 25-3 record as a junior in 1998. He batted .639 with 11 home runs and 39 RBI and added 16 doubles and 44 stolen bases in that championship season.
He was born June 10, 1981, in Lumberton, N.C.
