Release courtesy of the GVSU Sports Information Department
Allendale, Mich. - Tim Selgo, the Director of Athletics at Grand Valley State University, announced today that Jamie Detillion has been named the eighth head coach of the Laker baseball program. Detillion replaces Steve Lyon who retired following the 2012 baseball season. Detillion most recently completed his 10th year as an assistant coach at GVSU, including the last three of which he has been the associate head coach. GVSU finished the 2012 season with a 43-16 record, captured its ninth GLIAC title in the last 10 years and advanced to the NCAA DII tournament for the 11th straight year.
"It is a tremendous honor to be named the head baseball coach at Grand Valley State," said Detillion. "Steve (Lyon) did an incredible job the last 14 years of building a nationally known Division II baseball program that can compete on the national stage. I am thankful for the opportunity that Tim (Selgo) and the search committee gave me to lead and mentor our student-athletes. We have a wonderful support system through our administration and alums that is second to none and I am looking forward to building on the tradition already established," added Detillion.
Grand Valley State has been one of the top offensive teams in the country with Detillion as the hitting coach. The Lakers have ranked among the top 15 in the country in every key offensive statistical category and completely rewrote the Laker single-season and career record book the last 10 years.
Jamie was also a pitcher and first baseman from 1997-2000 at GLIAC
rival Ashland University. He earned NCAA DII First-Team
All-American honors as a junior first baseman and was a four time
All-GLIAC recipient as a first baseman/pitcher. Detillion left
Ashland holding 17 individual records, including career home runs
(46), and RBI's (203), single season home runs (23), RBI's (89),
total bases (162), single game home runs (4) and RBI's (8). The
single-game four home runs and 16 total bases are NCAA post-season
single-game records for all divisions. Detillion is also among the
leaders in career innings pitched (333.0) and wins (30) for the
Eagles. Jamie led Ashland to the NCAA DII World Series in
Montgomery, Ala. in 1999 where he led the tournament in hitting (8
for 12, .667 avg). In October of 2010, Detillion was inducted into
the Ashland University Hall of Fame for his accomplishments.
Detillion received his bachelor's of science in education from Ashland University in 2000 and his masters of education from GVSU in 2010.
Jamie and his wife, Jill, are the proud parents of sons Cannon (2) and Crew (infant).
