SAINT PAUL, MINN.—The Hamline University baseball team is excited to announce the addition of Aaron Rushing as assistant coach. He will work with the Pipers pitching staff.

"Rushing brings 17 seasons of MIAC head coaching experience to the Hamline baseball staff," said Pipers head baseball coach Jim Weyandt. "He will be leading the Pipers pitching staff this spring. I am thrilled to be adding a coach with Aaron's experience."

Rushing spent the previous 17 seasons as head baseball coach at MIAC rival Carleton, where he is the program's all-time wins leader with 207 career triumphs. The Knights accumulated 26 All-MIAC awards, 18 All-Region awards, 10 Academic All-District or Academic All-America awards, a Fulbright Scholar, and an Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar.

Formerly an assistant baseball and football coach at his alma mater, Grinnell College (Iowa), Rushing brings a wide variety of experiences to Hamline's baseball program. Rushing spent the 2003 season as head coach at Minot State University, where he inherited a team that had only six wins the previous season. Under Rushing's direction, the Beavers won the conference tournament and qualified for the regional tournament for the first time since the Minot State program was resurrected in 1988.

He also served as pitching and catching coach for two summers with the Lehigh Valley (Pa.) Catz, a summer collegiate team in the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League. Rushing's pitching staff set a Catz record with a 2.23 ERA, helping them to the 2003 ACBL regular season and tournament championships. Ten pitchers and two catchers from those teams went on to play professionally.

A 2001 graduate of Grinnell with a degree in economics, Rushing was a pitcher and catcher for the Pioneers and captained the two winningest teams in school history. Following his collegiate career, Rushing played baseball for a season in France, pitching and playing infield for the Toulouse Tigers. He earned his master's degree in management from Minot State in 2004.

Rushing and his wife, Naomi, live in Northfield with their daughter, Bella, and son, Tori.