Caleb Abney

Caleb Abney

• School Covenant College, University of Georgia

Biographical Information

Caleb Abney played four years of college baseball at Covenant College and graduated in 2011 with a degree in interdisciplinary studies. He moved onto graduate school at the University of Georgia where he earned a master's degree in kinesiology in 2012.

Since getting his bachelor's degree, Abney has gained baseball coaching experience in a variety of settings. He started as the head varsity coach in 2012 with the Westminster Christian Academy Lions. In 2014, he took a jaunt to the other side of the planet and worked as a player/coach for the Pakenham Pumas baseball team in Australia. He returned to the U.S. in 2015 and spent the summer as a minor league video intern for the Bowling Green Hot Rods. In between these short-term jobs, he also worked as a personal trainer or instructor at various training facilities.

Abney moved to the college coaching ranks in the fall of 2016 taking an assistant coaching position with his alma mater for the 2017 season. From there he took a similar job with the King University Tornadoes for the 2018 season. During the summer of 2018 he coached the Watertown Rapids in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League. Abney next took a volunteer assistant coaching position at Austin Peay State University, but this only lasted from August until the end of 2018.

In 2019, the Minnesota Twins hired Abney as the hitting coach for the GCL Twins. This foray into the professional coaching ranks only lasted through the end of the minor league season. He returned to Covenant College as the Scots' hitting coach in the fall of 2019 where he remained until late 2021. In November of that year he became the 19th head coach at Lancaster Bible College. He stayed in that position through the 2023 season.

In August 2024 Abney accepted a new head coaching position at Sul Ross State University. In addition to the challenges of taking over a program, Abney will also oversee the movement of the Lobos from Division III to Division II and a transition into the Lone Star Conference in 2025.

In the summer of 2020 Abney was the hitting coach for the Parkland Sharks of the Collegiate League of the Palm Beaches. He moved to a head coaching role in summer 2021 with the Staunton Braves of the Valley Baseball League.