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Baseball's Connor Gandossy Recognized as Assistant to Know by D1Baseball
8/31/2022 1:30:00 PM | Baseball
Omaha, Neb. -- Creighton Baseball Assistant Coach Connor Gandossy was recognized by D1Baseball as one of top Assistant Coaches earlier this week.
Entering his sixth season with the Bluejays, Gandossy is responsible for recruiting, developing catchers and working with the offense for the Bluejays. His impact at Creighton was an instrumental part of the Bluejays' claiming the BIG EAST regular season and tournament championships in 2019, advancing to the NCAA Regional finals.
During his first season as the hitting coach at Creighton (2018), Gandossy helped the Bluejay offense bump its team batting average by 11 points (from .256 to .267), raise the squads' slugging percentage from .370 to .412 and increase runs per game from 4.2 to 6.3. Creighton continued to improve at the plate in 2019, leading the BIG EAST in hitting for the first time with a team batting average of .290. The Bluejays also posted an on-base percentage of .387, slugging percentage of .477, collected 200 extra base hits (67 home runs) and scored over seven runs per game.
Over the past three seasons Gandossy worked closely with Alan Roden, helping the Wisconsin native move from a walk-on in 2019 to the 98th overall pick in the 2022 MLB Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays. Roden went on to claim the 2022 BIG EAST Player of the Year, becoming the second BIG EAST Player of the Year recruited by Gandossy (joining the 2019 BIG EAST Player of the Year and All-American, Jake Holton, who was selected in the 10th round of the MLB Draft).
Gandossy's impact is expected to continue to grow as the Bluejays' 2020 recruiting class was rated as one of the Top 50 in the nation by College Baseball Newspaper (CBN) and Baseball America. The 2021 recruiting class was a Perfect Game Top 100 class as well as a Top 75 Class by CBN. It was the third time Gandossy landed Perfect Game Top 100 class, doing so in 2015 and 2016 at Saint Louis.
To see the complete list of 75 Assistant Coaches to Know, click here.
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Entering his sixth season with the Bluejays, Gandossy is responsible for recruiting, developing catchers and working with the offense for the Bluejays. His impact at Creighton was an instrumental part of the Bluejays' claiming the BIG EAST regular season and tournament championships in 2019, advancing to the NCAA Regional finals.
During his first season as the hitting coach at Creighton (2018), Gandossy helped the Bluejay offense bump its team batting average by 11 points (from .256 to .267), raise the squads' slugging percentage from .370 to .412 and increase runs per game from 4.2 to 6.3. Creighton continued to improve at the plate in 2019, leading the BIG EAST in hitting for the first time with a team batting average of .290. The Bluejays also posted an on-base percentage of .387, slugging percentage of .477, collected 200 extra base hits (67 home runs) and scored over seven runs per game.
Over the past three seasons Gandossy worked closely with Alan Roden, helping the Wisconsin native move from a walk-on in 2019 to the 98th overall pick in the 2022 MLB Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays. Roden went on to claim the 2022 BIG EAST Player of the Year, becoming the second BIG EAST Player of the Year recruited by Gandossy (joining the 2019 BIG EAST Player of the Year and All-American, Jake Holton, who was selected in the 10th round of the MLB Draft).
Gandossy's impact is expected to continue to grow as the Bluejays' 2020 recruiting class was rated as one of the Top 50 in the nation by College Baseball Newspaper (CBN) and Baseball America. The 2021 recruiting class was a Perfect Game Top 100 class as well as a Top 75 Class by CBN. It was the third time Gandossy landed Perfect Game Top 100 class, doing so in 2015 and 2016 at Saint Louis.
To see the complete list of 75 Assistant Coaches to Know, click here.
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