Doug Little
Doug Little
Title: Head Baseball Coach
Phone: 304-788-6878
Email: DALittle@mail.wvu.edu

In 2024, Coach Little will begin his 27th year, (93-94, 00-present), as the Head Baseball Coach at Potomac State College of WVU. His record in twenty-six seasons is a remarkable 845-364-1, including twenty-one seasons of 30 or more wins. He has been named the American Baseball Coaches Association Regional Coach of the Year ten times. In 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2011 Little was also named the NJCAA East District Coach of the year in leading the Catamounts to four trips to the Division I JUCO World Series in Grand Junction, Colorado. Potomac State has won the NJCAA Region XX Baseball Championship fourteen out of the twenty-five years that Little has been at the helm.

In 2016 Little was elected to the NJCAA Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame.

Little, a Parkersburg, WV native, spent five seasons (95-99), as the recruiting coordinator and number one assistant baseball coach at West Virginia University.  Little's recruiting efforts at WVU took shape in the form of three-straight 30 win seasons, including back-to-back BIG EAST Divisional titles in 1996 and 1997. His recruiting efforts were recognized by Collegiate Baseball Magazine.

A tireless worker Little has championed the construction of a new baseball facility Golden Park, which opened in the spring of 2002. Along with the improvement of facilities, including one of the best locker-room facilities in all of Junior College Baseball. Little has also initiated successful summer and winter baseball camps, and the annual Catamount 100 Inning Marathon Game which has raised thousands of dollars toward improving the Catamounts schedule and equipment.

Little, a master recruiter works very closely with Potomac State's pitching staff, having produced six Region XX pitcher's of the year. Little has also had countless players continue on to play at four year colleges, JUCO All-Americans, and numerous players drafted and signed by professional organizations. In 2005 Freshman pitcher Enrique Garcia, who went undrafted in high school, became a 17th round selection by the Chicago White Sox in the Major League Professional Draft.

In 2005 Little was named by the Mid-Atlantic Professional Scouting Bureau their Coach of the Year.

A 1984 graduate of Parkersburg High School Little played collegiately at Alderson-Broaddus College, where he was a two-time all WVIAC outfielder. He earned a bachelor's degree from A-B in physical education and health, and master's degrees from Eastern Kentucky in physical education in 1989 and from West Virginia Wesleyan College in education in 1991.

Little is a 31-year member of the American Baseball Coaches Association, and is a Physical Education professor at Potomac State College. 

Little's Record at Potomac State:

Year     Record               Results

1993     30-13                Region XX Champs/ JUCO World Series

1994     30-6                  Region XX Champs/ JUCO World Series runners-up

2000     37-10                Region XX Champs/ Eastern District runners-up

2001     33-9                  Region XX Champs/ Eastern District runners-up

2002     35-16                Region XX Champs/ Eastern District runners-up

2003     32-14                Region XX Runners-up

2004     31-22                Region XX Champs/ Eastern District Champs/ JUCO World Series

2005     33-14                Region XX Champs/ Eastern District Champs/ JUCO World Series

2006     41-15                Region XX Champs/ Eastern District Champs/ JUCO World Series

2007     32-13                Region XX Champs/ Eastern District runners-up

2008     37-10                Region XX Runners-up

2009     37-14                Region XX Champs/ Eastern District runners-up

2010     29-25                Region XX Champs/ Eastern District runners-up

2011     38-12                Region XX Champs/ Eastern District Champs/ JUCO World Series

2012     25-25                Region XX Runners-up

2013     40-16                Region XX Champs/ Eastern District runners-up

2014     38-13-1             Region XX Runners-up

2015     37-10                Region XX Champs/ Eastern District runners-up

2016     30-22                Region XX Runners-up

2017     28-16                Region XX 3rd Place

2018     35-11                Region XX 4th Place

2019     32-13                Region XX Runners-up/ Eastern District 3rd place

2020      6-6                   Season shortened due to Covid-19

2021     35-8                  Region XX Runners-up

2022     34-13                Region XX Runners-up

2023     30-18                Region XX Runners-up/ Eastern District 4th place

Total:  845-364-1