Rick Jones (baseball coach)

Rick Jones

Jones in 2008
Biographical details
Born	Bennett, North Carolina, U.S.
Playing career
1972–1973	Sandhills CC
1974–1975	UNC Wilmington
Position(s)	Pitcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1982–1984	Ferrum College
1985–1989	Elon
1990–1993	Georgia Tech (Asst.)
1994–2014	Tulane
Head coaching record
Overall	1,094–538–3
Tournaments	C-USA: 39–23 NCAA: 28–26
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Carolina Conference Regular season (1985, 1987, 1989) Conference USA Regular season (1997, 1998, 2001, 2005) Conference USA Tournament (1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005)
Awards
Carolina Conference Coach of the Year (1985, 1987, 1989) Conference USA Coach of the Year (1997, 2001, 2005) Baseball America National Coach of the Year (2005)

Rick Jones is an American college baseball coach who most recently served as the head coach of the Tulane Green Wave baseball team. He held that position for 21 seasons – from 1994 to 2014.

Early in his coaching career, Jones coached at Ferrum College, while it was an NJCAA member and at Elon College, while it was an NAIA member.

Jones led the Green Wave to 12 NCAA tournament appearances. In 2001 his team advanced to the College World Series for the first time in school history. In 2005, he again led his team to the CWS, this time as the overall #1 seed in the tournament. Jones' Green Wave teams won four Conference USA regular-season championships (1997, 1998, 2001, 2005) and five Conference USA tournament championships (1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005).

His 814 career wins were the most tallied by any Tulane coach in any sport. Jones has been inducted into Tulane’s athletics Hall of Fame, the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. In 2023, Tulane baseball retired his uniform number.^[1]