Baseball

Last spring Carter Hawkins, BS’07, learned about Vanderbilt’s plans to upgrade its baseball facilities. He was among the first former student-athletes to contribute, pledging a leadership-level gift to the $10 million project that will renovate and enhance training areas in Memorial Gym and build out new operations and team spaces for students and coaches. Read More

Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater cast Baker in his latest film, Everybody Wants Some!!—a “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 cult classic Dazed and Confused—about a college baseball team in Texas in the ’80s. Read More

Have you noticed an increase of construction workers and equipment as well as detoured roads and walkways as you make your way across campus this summer? Read More

The Vanderbilt University community is mourning the death of Donny Everett, a rising sophomore and pitcher on the Commodore baseball team, following a drowning accident June 2 in Coffee County, Tennessee. Funeral services for Everett are scheduled for Tuesday in Clarksville, Tennessee. Read More

Three years ago Ro Coleman made the unlikely journey from inner-city Chicago to Nashville to attend Vanderbilt on a baseball scholarship. Read More

Hawkins Field, home of Vanderbilt’s national championship baseball team, has replaced all existing High-Intensity Discharge (HID) fixtures on the field with fewer Light-Emitting Diode (LED) fixtures. Read More

Vanderbilt has always sent a handful of players to the major leagues, but in recent years there’s been a noticeable trend of more Commodores making it to the pros. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Board of Trust has approved a $10 million project to provide enhanced space in Memorial Gym for instruction, team building, coaching and settings that can foster interactions with returning professional players. Read More

Recruiting student athletes may seem like a no-brainer: Find the most talented players on the field, then make sure they can manage a demanding academic load. But for Vanderbilt baseball’s head coach, Tim Corbin—“Corbs” to his players—desirable stats and good grades aren’t quite enough. Corbin, who was named College… Read More

Corbin, who was named College Baseball Coach of the Year after leading the Commodores to their first College World Series title last year—and taking the team to another championship series this year—looks for subtle signs that players will find success on and off the field. Read More

For the second year in a row, Vanderbilt’s baseball team finished with a spot in the national championship. Read More

To quote the great Bob Dylan, the times they are a-changing. When I graduated in 1996, Vanderbilt’s admittance rate sat a shade below 60 percent. For this year’s incoming class, it was 11.6 percent. Read More

In the latest VUCast: Find out about a fight club that can save lives; learn how musicians see in tune; and see the best Vanderbilt baseball fans from the College World Series. Watch now. Read More

Vanderbilt has announced multiple recipients of its annual Male and Female Athlete of the Year awards, the by-product of extraordinary performances by a number of teams and individuals. Read More

Juniors Carson Fulmer and Dansby Swanson have each earned national awards from the College Baseball Hall of Fame with Fulmer being named the National Pitcher of the Year and Swanson the Brooks Wallace Award winner, given annually to the nation’s top shortstop. Read More

The team buses for the Commodores will arrive on campus at approximately 1:30 p.m. and will park on Jess Neely Drive in front of Hawkins Field. Read More

Vanderbilt lost to Virginia 4-2 Wednesday night to come up one win short of claiming back-to-back national championships. The Commodores finish 51-21 on the season and mark their second consecutive season with more than 50 wins. Fans are invited to greet the team as it returns to campus Thursday at approximately 1:30 p.m. Read More

For the second year in a row, Vanderbilt and Virginia will go the distance in the best-of-three finals. Vanderbilt (51-20) will be playing for a second straight national title on Wednesday, while Virginia (43-24) will be looking for its first. Read More

Vanderbilt fans are invited once again to Vanderbilt Stadium to watch Wednesday's decisive game of the College World Series final. Read More

Hear from Vanderbilt players, their family members and fans as the Commodore Nation rallies for a final run at the 2015 College World Series national championship. Read More