
Title: | Head Baseball Coach |
Phone: | 304-788-6878 |
Email: | DALittle@mail.wvu.edu |
In 2025, Coach Little will begin his 28th year, (93-94, 00-present), as the Head Baseball Coach at Potomac State College of WVU. His record in twenty-seven seasons is a remarkable 870-382-1, 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
2024 25-18 Region XX Runners-up
Total: 870-382-1