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The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com

Bakich named new
Michigan baseball coach

By LIZ NAGLE and MATT
SLOVIN
Daily Sports Writer and Daily
Sports Editor
JUNE 29,2012 - On Wednes-
day, the University athletic
department announced that Erik
Bakich will be the 19th Michi-
gan baseball head coach in the
program's history, following a
nationwide search that began
when former coach Rich Malo-
ney and the Wolverines parted
ways on May 22.
Bakich, 34, is widely regarded
as one of the brightest young
minds in college baseball, as well
as one of its strongest recruiters.
He will leave Maryland after
three seasons as head coach. The
Terrapins failed to qualify for
the NCAA Tournament in each.
Bakich, who is the youngest
head coach among BCS schools,
expects his youth to help him,
especially onthe recruitingtrail.
"I've been very fortunate to
get an early start to a coaching
career and get opportunities at
a very high level, spending 11
years in the ACC and the SEC,"
Bakich told The Michigan Daily
on Thursday. "And not many
people can say ihey've had those
opportunities."
Prior to Maryland, Bakich
served as an assistant coach
for seven seasons at Vanderbilt,
under esteemed head coach Tim
Corbin. As the hitting coach for
the Commodores, Bakich helped
Vanderbilt rise to prominence,
where it advanced to the NCAA
Tournament five times during
his time in Nashville.
'(Bakich) will transition
well," Corbin said in an exclu-
sive interview with The Michi-
gan Daily. "He fits my image of
what a coach at Michigan is, and
that is a blue-collar personality,
but one that respects the val-
ues of the student-athlete and
understands that academics (are
a) premium, much like they are
here at Vanderbilt."
Known as a tireless recruiter,
Bakich emphasized how much
easier it is to sell a recruit on a
program thathas sound academ-
ics. Bakich agreed with Corbin

that it's
no coin-
cidence
his three
stops
have all
been
solid
academ-
ic insti-
tutions.
"I've
been
very for-
tunate
to be at
great.
institu-
tions,
and I
feel like
those
institu-
tions
have
really
helped
with the
recruit- Eric Bakich is announced a
ing pro- baseball program on May:
cess,"
Bakich said. "And the highlight
of that will be here at Michigan
and with all the tremendous
assets that this university has
academically and athletically.
"Our focus is always going to
be on recruiting. There are some
very good players that are com-
mitted to be here this fall. There
are a few that are committed to
be here the following fall. We're
certainly going to identify those
guys and start a relationship
with them with our new coach-
ing staff immediately."
The new coach stressed that
the Michigan job is quite the
"opportunity" for him and went
on to state his lofty goals for the
program, which has struggled
mightily in recent seasons.
"Being in the ACC and the
SEC, I've been able to see some
of the best programs and the
best teams and how they recruit
and how they build a program
and how they build a team,"
Bakich said. "Coming to the
Big Ten, I.think there's oppor-
tunity to win championships.
And we're certainly going to try

s the 19th head coach of the Michigan
22, 2012.

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ADAM GLANZMAN/Daily
Barnes Arico replaces Kevin Borseth as the ninth head coach of the women's basketball team.
Barnes Arico formally
introduced as nint h ead
women's basketball coach

to use the blueprints of places
that I've had the opportunity
to be in the past, build the pro-
gram, develop our players with
the recruiting and development
approach and bring champion-
ships back to Michigan."
Bakich played collegiately at
East Carolina.
"For us, the focus is always
going to be the process orien-
tated approach on everybody
getting better every single day
and improving, even if it's one
percent, every single day in
striving to reach whatever their
maximum potential is in all
areas of their life," Bakich said.
One member of Bakich's
Maryland staff, pitching coach
Sean Kenny, is an Ann Arbor
native. Though the University's
job board lists an opening for an
assistant coach as well, it hasn't
yet been announced whether
Kenny, witlahis local ties, might
follow Bakich to Michigan. The
Michigan staff already includes
assistant Wayne Welton and
pitching coach Steve Merri-
man.

By COLLEEN THOMAS
Daily Sports Editor
APRIL, 23, 2012 - In a press
conference in the Jack Roth Sta-
dium Club at Michigan Stadium
on Monday, Michigan athletic
director Dave Brandon formally
introduced Kim Barnes Arico
as the ninth head women's bas-
ketball coach in the program's
40-year history.
Barnes Arico replaces Kevin
Borseth, who left the program
on.April 4 to return to Wiscon-
sin-Green Bay. Borseth took the
Wolverines to their first NCAA
Tournament in i1 years, but
they fell to Oklahoma in the first
round.
"Our women's basketball
program has made significant
strides over the past few years,"
Brandon said. "But we have
more to go. The reason you come
to Michigan is to compete for
championships and play at the
highest level. That's what we
want for our women's basketball
program.
"Words cannot express how
pleased and proud that I am
that on Friday, we were able to
announce that Kim Barnes Arico
is going to lead our program."
Barnes Arico arrives in Ann
Arbor after 10 years at the helm
of St. John's, where she took a
bottom-feeder in the Big East to
three consecutive NCAA Tour-
naments. She also became the
winningest women's basketball
coach for the Red Storm on Feb.
12, recording her 169th victory.
In her opening statement,
Barnes Arico expressed her
excitement to join the Michi-

gan family - something she
mentioned was one of the great
things about coming to the
university, in addition to the
welcoming atmosphere in Ann
Arbor.
"One of the things when I
was looking at the University of
Michigan that made it so appeal-
ing to me before I came and
through the process was Dave
Brandon," Barnes Arico said.
"He is a special man, and I found
that out in a short period of time.
I'm thrilled for the opportunity
to work with him here at the
University.
"It's one of the best universi-
ties in the country, academically
and athletically. I'm excited to
be here. I'm expecting great
things."
Though the Wolverines have
made significant progress in the
past few years under Borseth,
they will now have to adapt to
a different style of play. Many
questions surrounding the
transition from the old style to
Barnes Arico's coaching style
were addressed, as well as
Barnes Arico's own switch from
coaching and recruiting in the
Big East to the Big Ten.
Barnes Arico believes she
won't have trouble getting the
team to adapt to her coach-
ing style - she implements a
fast-paced, defensive-minded
system that Michigan began to
run under Borseth and has been
seen in Big Ten teams such as
Penn $tate and Ohio State.
"I think the mindset will
always be defense first," said
senior guard Jenny Ryan. "At St.
John's they played a very fast-

paced game and I think (Barnes
Arico) really prided herself on
defense creating the offense.
I think that'll blend perfectly
with our style."
As for recruiting, Barnes
Arico is excited to welcome the
state's top player, Madison Ris-
tovski, to the team and hopes to
use her ties to the East Coast to
her advantage in recruiting, as
well.
"I definitely think I can
recruit the Midwest, and I think
I have to recruit the Midwest,"
'Barnes Arico said. "I think I can
recruit the East, as well. Michi-
gan is a national name, and peo-
ple from around the country will
come to the University of Michi-
gan."
Michigan finished seventh in
the Big Ten last season with an
8-8 conference record and was
eliminated in the quarterfinals
of the conference tournament.
The Wolverines have a fierce
in-state rivalry with Michigan
State, which has beaten them 19
of the past 20 times.
Michigan has beaten Ohio
State three of the last four times,
but the in-state rivalry, both in
recruiting and on the court, is a
key focus for Barnes Arico's next
season.
"I think it's time," Barnes
Arico said. "I'm really excited
about it. I know (Michigan State
has) a great program and a great
tradition in women's basketball,
but I think we have all of these
things too.
"I don't want to steal from
somebody else, but it's the Uni-
versity of Michigan fergod-'
sakes."

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By MATT SLOVIN will bring," said Athletic Direc-
Daily Sports Editor for Dave Brandon in the release.
"(Daley) has a wealth of experi-
iC. 23, 2011 - Just over one ence both as a coach and a player
since the Michigan men's at a variety of levels."
r team climbed the ranks Daley's coaching career
llege soccer to reach its matches the longevity of Burns.
ever College Cup, the pro- All 12 of his years coaching have
will experience another been spent at Providence, where
ition - one that nobody most recently he led the Friars
coning during the Wolver- to an NCAA Tournament berth
monumental run in 2010. - one of five duringDaley's stint
Athletic Department there. In each of his final seven
se on Friday announced seasons at the helm at Provi-
Chaka Daley, head coach dence, he led his alma mater to a
rovidence College's team, winning record.
been named the second "I ai extremely excited and
coach in program history. honored," said the Toronto
ucceeds Steve Burns, who native in the release about his
ned Nov. 30. new job.
rns had brought soccer to Daley went on to refer to
inence in Ann Arbor after Michigan as "one of the great
wring the program from its schools, not only in America, but
as a club sport. Men's soc- in the world."
btained varsity status in He will attempt to regroup
i. - the Wolverines following a 2011
Ve are excited about the campaign that paled in com-
rship that Coach Daley parison to the success of 2010.
Michigan won just one Big Ten

contest en route to a 5-14-1 over-
all record and a loss in the first
round of the conference tourna-
ment.
Daley will enjoy a far more
experienced roster than the
one Burns had to work with in
his final season. The 2011 team
included 12 players seeing their
first season of game action,
and the Wolverines will lose
just three seniors - midfielder
Adam Shaw and defenders Jar-
rett Kerr and Eric Leifland.
One challenge facing Daley
will be keeping professional-
caliber talents in a Michigan
uniform. After the 2010 trip to
the national semifinals, forward
Soony Saad left the program to
play professionally after being
named Big Ten Freshman of the
Year.
Daley's professional playing
career as a defender included a
one-year stop in the MLS with
the New England Revolution in
1999, before returning to help
coach Providence.

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