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American baseball player and coach
Bill Currier
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Title
| Head coach
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Team
| Fairfield
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Conference
| MAAC
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Record
| 356?289?0 (.552)
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Born
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1960-01-27
)
January 27, 1960
(age 64)
Essex Junction, Vermont
, U.S.
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1979?1981
| Vermont
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1983?1984
| Vermont
(assistant)
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1985?1986
| Western Carolina
(assistant)
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1987
| Mitchell JC
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1988?2009
| Vermont
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2010
| Tennessee
(assistant)
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2011
| Fairfield
(assistant)
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2012?present
| Fairfield
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Overall
| 842?780?2 (.519)
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Tournaments
| NCAA: 2?4
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2
America East
(2003, 2006)
4
MAAC
(2016, 2021, 2023, 2024)
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Coach of the Year
3x
America East
(2002, 2003, 2006)
3x
MAAC
(2012, 2016, 2021)
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Willard F. Currier
is an American
college baseball
coach, currently serving as head coach of the
Fairfield Stags baseball
team. He was named to that position prior to the
2012 NCAA Division I baseball season
. He was previously the head coach at
Vermont
(its winningest ever) before the university cut the baseball program after the
2009 season
.
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Playing career
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Currier played at Vermont under
Jack Leggett
from 1979 through 1981. He was drafted in the sixth round of the
1981 MLB Draft
by the
Philadelphia Phillies
. He played three seasons in the Phillies organization in Class A.
Coaching career
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He returned to Vermont as an assistant coach and completed his degree in 1984. He then assisted Leggett at
Western Carolina
before earning his first head coaching job at
Mitchell College
, then a junior college. In 1988, Currier succeeded
Mike Stone
as head coach at Vermont. Currier would coach the Catamounts for 22 seasons, compiling a 486?470 record prior to the program's end in 2009. He was named
America East Coach of the Year
three times. He then served the 2010 season at
Tennessee
before being named head coach in waiting at Fairfield for the 2011 season and being elevated to the top job in 2012.
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At Fairfield, Currier was named the MAAC Coach of the Year in 2012, his first season as the Stags' head coach. That year, the team went 14?10 in MAAC play and reached the playoffs for the first time since 2000. Senior shortstop Larry Cornelia and sophomore outfielder Ryan Plourde were both all-conference selections, giving Fairfield multiple all-league honorees for the first time since 2008. In 2014, Fairfield went 32-24 (15-8 MAAC), finishing third in the program's first 30-win season. Plourde, Jake Salpietro, and EJ Ashworth were named to the All-MAAC First Team. The Stags won their first two games in the MAAC Tournament, defeating #6 seed
Manhattan
and #2
Siena
before losses to top-seeded
Canisius
and Siena knocked them out of the tournament.
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Head coaching record
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Below is a table of Currier's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.
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See also
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Notes
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The America East was known as the North Atlantic Conference from 1990 to 1996.
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a
b
In this season, all of the North Atlantic's members qualified for the postseason.
References
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"2011-12 Baseball Coaching Staff"
. Fairfield Stags
. Retrieved
May 25,
2013
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"Player Bio: Bill Currier"
. Tennessee Volunteers
. Retrieved
May 25,
2013
.
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Brian Foley (August 31, 2010).
"Bill Currier set to be named "Head Coach in Waiting" at Fairfield"
. College Baseball Daily
. Retrieved
May 25,
2013
.
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Shane Bufano (May 10, 2010).
"Where Have All The Catamounts Gone?"
. Vermont Scoreboard
. Retrieved
May 25,
2013
.
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Phil Stanton (February 27, 2009).
"Vermont Prepares for Final Season"
. College Baseball Insider
. Retrieved
December 7,
2013
.
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"History & Records"
(PDF)
.
FairfieldStags.com
. Fairfield Athletics Communications. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on March 15, 2015
. Retrieved
May 23,
2015
.
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"College Baseball Roundup: Fairfield Loses MAAC Tournament Opener"
.
CTPost.com
. May 25, 2012
. Retrieved
May 23,
2015
.
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"Baseball"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on January 22, 2015
. Retrieved
June 20,
2014
.
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"MAAC Standings"
.
D1Baseball.com
. Archived from
the original
on April 29, 2014
. Retrieved
July 25,
2014
.
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"2014 America East Baseball Record Book"
(PDF)
.
AmericaEast.com
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on June 16, 2014
. Retrieved
July 25,
2014
.
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"Vermont Baseball History and Record Book"
. Vermont Sports Information. Archived from
the original
on July 28, 2014
. Retrieved
July 25,
2014
.
External links
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