Bill Kinneberg

Bill Kinneberg

• School University of Texas at El Paso, University of Arizona

Biographical Information

Bill Kinneberg has been a college coach for 30 years.

Kinneberg started his career as an assistant coach at the University of Texas at El Paso from 1980-1983. In 1984, he was pitching coach for the Italian national team in the Olympics. In 1985, he returned to El Paso as head coach and set a school record for wins, but the school dropped baseball after the season. From 1986-1992, he was head coach at the University of Wyoming, going 37-18 and being named Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. They set a school record for wins.

From 1993-1994, Kinneberg was assistant coach at Arizona State University as ASU went to the 1993 College World Series and 1994 College World Series. In 1996, he was head coach at the University of Utah, setting a school record for wins at 30-22.

Kinneberg was associate head coach at the University of Arizona from 1997-2001. Bill was a coach in the Chicago White Sox chain in 2003-2004.

In 2005, Bill returned to Utah as head coach, replacing Tim Esmay who went on to Arizona State; Esmay had replaced Kinneberg back in 1997. Through 2009, his record as a head coach in 372-328.

Kinneberg was again pitching coach for a national team when he was with Team USA for the 2007 Pan American Games, helping them win a Silver Medal. He worked with Brian Matusz that summer, a year before Matusz was the 4th pick in the 2008 amateur draft.

Bill will manage Team USA in 2010.

Year-by-Year Coaching Record

Year	School	Overall Record	Conference Record	Notes
1985	University of Texas at El Paso	33-26	11-13
1986	University of Wyoming	29-19	16-7	WAC
1987	University of Wyoming	27-22	11-12
1988	University of Wyoming	25-27	14-13	WAC
1989	University of Wyoming	36-21	17-10	WAC
1990	University of Wyoming	37-18	20-8	WAC
1991	University of Wyoming	31-22	14-12	WAC
1992	University of Wyoming	27-28	11-14
1996	University of Utah	30-22	15-15
2005	University of Utah	19-36	10-20	Mountain West
2006	University of Utah	28-28	9-13	Mountain West
2007	University of Utah	24-31	12-12	Mountain West
2008	University of Utah	26-28	10-14	Mountain West
2009	University of Utah	28-31	8-16	Mountain West / CWS Regionals
2010	University of Utah	23-28	10-13	Mountain West
2011	University of Utah	29-21	16-7	Mountain West
2012	University of Utah	14-42	7-23
2013	University of Utah	21-31	7-23
2014	University of Utah	16-36	4-26
2015	University of Utah	16-36-1	7-22
2016	University of Utah	26-29	19-11	CWS Regionals
2017	University of Utah	27-24	15-15
2018	University of Utah	16-39	8-22
2019	University of Utah	16-33	6-24
2020	University of Utah	6-7	0-0
2021	University of Utah	17-33	7-23

Source: Utah bio