Daniel Stange is in his second season as pitching coach for the Utah Tech baseball program.
Coach Stange comes to Utah Tech after spending last season as an assistant coach at Riverside (CA) City College, where he helped lead the Tigers to a 28-13 overall record and a second place finish in the Orange Empire Conference standings (15-6).
Prior to his time at RCC, Stange served as head coach and director of athletics at the University of St. Katherine from 2016-22. In seven seasons at USK, he guided the Firebirds to a 159-127 record, which included an 80-50 mark in two seasons of NAIA play, and to a 2021 CalPac conference championship and a runner-up finish in 2022.
Meanwhile as USK athletic director, Stange successfully led the program’s transition from the NCCAA to the NAIA. He added seven different sports and drove the athletic department revenue from $300K to over $6 million. In addition, the Firebird baseball program touted he highest retention and graduation rates in during his tenure as the institution.
Stange was a 33rd-round draft pick out of high school by the Atlanta Braves in the 2003 June Amateur Draft. However he elected to play collegiately at UC Riverside, where he was part of the Highlander program for three seasons from 2004-06.
While at UCR, Stange was an honorable mention all-Big West Conference selection in 2006 after recording 11 saves, and he is currently ranked fifth all-time in UCR history in career saves (12).
Following the 2006 season, Stange was a seventh-round selection of the Arizona Diamondbacks, for whom he made his Major League debut during the 2010 season. He also reached the majors with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2013), and played professionally in both the San Diego Padres and the Washington Nationals organizations.
Stange is a 2015 graduate of UC Riverside, and he completed work on his Master’s degree at Concordia-Irvine in 2017.
