St. Francis named South Bay native Erik Wagle as its new head baseball coach in a press release on Monday afternoon.
“With immense reverence for the rich traditions of Lancer baseball, I am looking forward to serving the young men in the program and to moving the program forward into the model for high school baseball development,” Wagle said in the press release.
Wagle, a Live Oak alum with coaching experience at his alma mater, San Jose City College and Cal State Monterey Bay, is also the president of baseball training company Kinetic Performance Institute.
Wagle’s Live Oak team won the CCS Division III title in 2008. According to his LinkedIn profile, Wagle has also worked as an associate scout for the Washington Nationals.
“Saint Francis baseball has a strong tradition with a lineage of great educators who have led our baseball program,” athletic director Therren Wilburn said in the statement. “I am looking forward to Erik building on that legacy and helping our students become great men in the dugout and in our Saint Francis community.”
Wagle succeeds Matt Maguire, who had coached the Lancers for the past six seasons and won two CCS titles before stepping down in late September. Maguire still works at the school as an assistant athletic director and a science teacher.
St. Francis went 16-13 last season and lost in the first round of the CCS Division I playoffs.