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Rudy Garbalosa
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Rudy Garbalosa begins his ninth season as the skipper of the Lynn University baseball team. Prior to him being named head coach, he served two years as an assistant under former LU mentor Greg Kilby. The program’s all-time winningest coach, Garbalosa reached 250 wins in 2008 and now boasts a record of 250-187 (.572) overall and 92-86 (.517) in the Sunshine State Conference.

Garbalosa is also the only coach in the school’s history to tally five years of 30+ wins in his career. Lynn has recorded 30+ victories in 10 of the program’s 24 seasons. The man known as “Garbs” has coached two Sunshine State Conference Player-of-the-Year selections, 27 All-SSC and 20 All-South Region honorees and three All-Americans.

Boasting one the top offenses the program has ever seen in 2008, Garbalosa watched as his team mashed a school record 83 home runs while scoring 425 runs, second most at LU. The defense also soared to new heights as it committed the fewest errors (78) and recorded the best fielding percentage (.960) in the Knights history. Adding icing to the cake was Lynn finishing first in the nation in double-plays per game (1.15) for the second time under his watch.

In 2007 he posted a third consecutive winning record (32-24) and narrowly missed a return trip to the NCAA South Regional Tournament. The Fighting Knights had many positives through the season, including winning their first SSC series against two-time defending NCAA Division II National Champions Tampa, earning a program-tying five SSC Players of the Week and having Nicolas Boisvert named the program’s first Rawlings/ABCA and Daktronics First Team All-American.

Always known for its stellar defense, Lynn finished fourth in the nation in double-plays per game (1.09), marking the second consecutive year it finished in the top-five.

Although the record was consistent with year’s past, 2006 proved to be Garbalosa’s most successful season as he led the Fighting Knights to their first ever NCAA post-season appearance and victory, a 12-7 win against Albany State.

Lynn led the nation in double-plays per game (1.21), set season records for triples (17) and total bases (931) and finished in the top-five in school history in hits (2nd-594), RBI (2nd-370), walks (2nd-286), home runs (3rd-65) and doubles (5th-108). The Knights were also the only team in the nation to beat NCAA Division II National Champions Tampa twice during the season.

Garbalosa rebounded in 2005 after a difficult 2004 season to tie his career-high in victories and set a new program record for Sunshine State Conference wins, helping the Blue and White finish 35-21 overall and 14-10 in the SSC.

The 2005 squad finished fourth in the Sunshine State Conference, swept the season series against NCAA Division II National Champions Florida Southern and saw five members earn SSC Player-of-the-Week honors, tying a program record.

In 2003, Garbalosa led the Knights to 35 wins and 13 SSC wins, the highest totals since 1996 when the team won 41 games. The 13 wins set a then-program record for the most conference wins in a season.

A 1990 Long Beach State graduate with a degree in mathematics, Garbalosa lettered with the 49er for three seasons as a second baseman. The Los Angeles-area native began coaching right away, serving as the head coach at his alma mater, Bishop Montgomery (Calif.) High School for four seasons before becoming a Division I assistant at Loyola Marymount. There, he spent two seasons as the Lions’ third base coach and academic advisor.

Garbalosa moved to El Camino (Calif.) College in 1997 where he spent one season as the top assistant coach for the Warriors. Garbalosa then relocated to the east coast, serving as the head coach at LaSalle High School (Miami, Fla.) before coming to Lynn in July 1998. After two seasons as the Knights’ recruiting coordinator he was named head coach when Kilby departed to become an assistant at Maryland.

During the past four seasons, Garbalosa has served as the South Region Chairman for the American Baseball Coaches Association All-American Committee and now chairs the national committee.

Born Rudy Garbalosa on September 26, 1967 in Los Angeles, he is married to the former Cristina Cuevas. The Garbalosa family includes son Luis, 13, and daughter Natalie, eight, and resides in Boca Raton. In his spare time, he enjoys playing golf and reading.

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