Entering his fourth season with the Raiders coaching staff, Kyle Geswein will act as the outfielders coach and assist head coach Rob Cooper as the hitting coach.
Geswein has a hand in organizing team travel, working with players on individual skills and aids in the recruiting process. During the season, Geswein coordinates the team's equipment from the various vendors that supply WSU, working with New Balance, DeMarini/Wilson and The Game.
The former slugger has guided the Raiders offense to 15 school records during his time at WSU. Those records include the team batting average and slugging percentage records, set last season and the team doubles and run scored records from the 2007 season.
Over the past two seasons, Geswein has worked with a pair of .400 hitters and seen ten players earn All-Horizon League honors. Second Team All-American Ross Oeder and first baseman Jeremy Hamilton were each named Horizon League Player of the Year after batting .408 and .410 respectively.
Geswein has played two seasons with the Florence (Ky.) Freedom of the Frontier League. In 2006, the left-handed hitter cranked out 14 doubles, drove in 42 RBI and scored 35 runs in 88 games. Geswein walked 45 times and led the Freedom with nine home runs during his final campaign in 2006.
In 2005, Geswein again hit a team-high 24 home runs and tallied 57 RBI as a rookie. He tallied 67 total hits, 32 going for extra bases, and posted a batting average of .231 in 290 plate appearances.
Before joining the professional ranks, Geswein was a four-year starter at Michigan State as a first baseman and designated hitter. He was a First Team All-Big Ten selection in 2002 as the Spartans recorded 38 wins, the second-highest win total in MSU program history. Geswein left MSU as the career leader in home runs, belting 36 while with the Spartans, and ranks among the career leaders in RBI's with 150 and hits with 201.
A Dayton native, Geswein lettered all four years for the Carroll Patriots, where he still holds the career home run mark. In 1994, Geswein helped lead his summer team to the championship at the National Amateur Baseball Federation World Series.
Geswein graduated from Michigan State in 2003 with a degree in horticulture. Currently he resides in the Dayton area with his fiancé Missi Whitman.
