Coach Carroll just completed his fifth season as the head baseball coach at Chowan University. Carroll's teams have finished above .500 four out of the last five seasons including last season's 23-18 overall record. In 2008, the program set records for most-ever wins after finishing 36-20 on the year. During the same season, Carroll saw two players earn NCCAA All American honors, one NCCSIA All-State player, and six players earn NCCAA All South Region. Carroll notched his 200th win as a collegiate head coach after claiming the 2008 NCCAA South Region Title.
Carroll is no stranger to the school and the baseball program. He first came to Chowan as a student in 1994 where he played one season of baseball under then head coach Mike Bocock. After finishing his eligibility Carroll stayed on to serve as a student assistant coach until he finished his degree in Health and Physical Education in 1996. He was hired as a full-time assistant coach upon his graduation, where he remained in that position until the summer of 2000.
In his first season as head coach Carroll guided the Hawks to a 27-15-1 overall record and a NCCAA South Region Championship. The Hawks earned a berth to the NCCAA World Series in Chattanooga where they finished 5th in the nation.
After leaving Chowan as an assistant coach in the late summer of 2000 Carroll accepted a volunteer assistant’s position at Tennessee Tech University, an NCAA Division I school and member of the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference. After some position changes in the program Carroll was named interim head coach in December of 2000. That spring he led the Golden Eagles to an OVC Tournament Championship and a NCAA appearance. Carroll went on to lead the Golden Eagles to two more conference tournament appearances. In the fall of 2004 Carroll resigned his position at TTU and took an instructor’s position at the Birmingham Baseball Academy in Alabama.
Carroll helped five TTU players earn MLB contracts over his three seasons there. He coached sixteen All Conference players and one All-American at TTU. Carroll also has an extensive summer collegiate league coaching background. In the summer of 2000 he coached the Petersburg Generals to a Coastal Plains League Championship. He also has had head coaching stints in Ohio and New York summer collegiate leagues.
Since coming to Chowan in 2005 Carroll has won two NCCAA South Region Championship, coached five NCCAA All Americans, and sixteen NCCAA All South Region players. In eight seasons as a collegiate head coach Carroll has a 225-182-1 overall coaching record.
Carroll received his B.S. in Physical Education in 1996 from Chowan and his M.S. in Sport Management from the United States Sports Academy in Daphne, Alabama. He is married to Joni Carroll, also a graduate of Chowan, and they reside in Murfreesboro.
"The Carroll File"
1995 Student Assistant Coach-Chowan College
1996 Head Baseball Coach-Northampton East High School (NC)
1996-2000 Head Junior Varsity & Asst. Varsity Coach-Chowan College
1997 Asst. Baseball Coach-Staunton Braves Summer League Team
1998 Asst. Baseball Coach-Columbus All-Americans Summer League
1999 Head Baseball Coach-Hornell Dodgers Summer League
2000 Head Baseball Coach-Petersburg Generals Summer League
2000 Interim Head Baseball Coach-Tennessee Tech University
2001-2003 Head Baseball Coach-Tennessee Tech University
2004 Instructor and Coach at Birmingham Baseball Academy
2005-Current Head Baseball Coach/Faculty Instructor-Chowan University