Greg Burnett
Head Baseball Coach
gburnett@tlu.edu
(830) 372-6982
Texas Lutheran University promoted Greg Burnett from associate head coach to head baseball coach in May of 2007. The 2009 baseball season will be his second as the Bulldogs' head coach.
Burnett, 36, joined the Texas Lutheran Athletics staff for the 1998-99 academic year and was former head coach (now AD) Bill Miller’s top assistant for nine seasons. Burnett was promoted to associate head coach prior to the 2002 season.
Burnett has been the primary recruiter for the Bulldogs since joining the TLU baseball program in the summer of 1998. Burnett came to TLU after serving as the assistant to the athletic director at Texas A&M University at Commerce, Texas. He has a master’s degree in health and physical education from Texas A&M-Commerce. Burnett completed his bachelor’s degree in 1995 at Howard Payne University, where he majored in psychology and graduated with a 3.7 grade point average.
At the time of his hiring, at the conclusion of the 2007 season, Burnett said: “I am extremely honored to be able to follow in Bill Miller’s footsteps, and I look forward to the challenge of keeping the program at the same high level of national competitiveness that it has achieved for the past 15 years.
With Miller and Burnett leading the way, the Texas Lutheran baseball team prodcued a 316-93-2 record (a .771 winning percentage) over nine seasons. In that same time span, the Bulldogs won three American Southwest Conference Championships, one Heart of Texas Conference Championship and six American Southwest Conference West Division Championships.
TLU also played in three NCAA Division III West Regional Championships (finishing as the West Region runner-up in 2005 and 2006) and in two NAIA Region VI Tournaments in that nine-year run.
The Bulldogs finished 2005 and 2006 with rankings in the Top 15 of the American Baseball Coaches Association/Collegiate Baseball Poll for NCAA Division III. The Bulldogs were ranked in the final Top 25 of the 2007 season.
The Bulldogs joined the American Southwest Conference for the 2001 baseball season; and since that time, TLU has a .745 winning percentage in conference play with a record of 132-45. In eight years in the ASC West Division, TLU has six first-place finishes and one third-place finish.
Burnett, a native of DeSoto, Texas, played two years of college baseball at Cedar Valley College in Lancaster, Texas. Cedar Valley is a part of the Dallas County Community College District.
After his time at Cedar Valley, Burnett enrolled at Howard Payne University, where he played his final two years of collegiate baseball. At Howard Payne, Burnett was named the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association Co-Most Valuable Player in his senior season. Along with Texas Lutheran, Howard Payne is now a member of the American Southwest Conference.
Burnett and his wife Michelle live in Seguin with their two children – a daughter, Ashley, and a son, Andrew.