Albany Great Danes baseball


The Albany Great Danes baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University at Albany in Albany, New York, United States. The team is a member of the America East Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. It plays home games at Varsity Field on the university's campus in Albany, New York. The Great Danes are coached by Jon Mueller.

History

Albany's baseball program played its first season in 1958. After spending several decades in Division III, it began the transition to Division I in the mid-1990s along with the school's other teams.

Division I

It played its first season in Division I in 2000, also hiring head coach Jon Mueller that year. After competing as an independent in 2000 and in the New York State Baseball Conference in 2001, it played its first season in the America East in 2002. In 2004, the Great Danes set a program record with 37 wins and reached their first Division I postseason, going 1-2 at that season's America East Tournament. In 2007, the team won the AEC Tournament as the third seed to reach its first NCAA Tournament at any level. As the fourth seed at the Fayetteville Regional, Albany went 0-2, losing 9-0 to host Arkansas and 21-11 to second seed Creighton.

Year-by-year results

Below is a table of Albany's yearly records as an NCAA Division I baseball program.

MLB Draft

In the Division I years that constitute Mueller's tenure, six Great Danes have been selected in the Major League Baseball Draft. The school's only other selection was Michael Kenney, taken in the 9th round by the San Francisco Giants in 1974.