Perry Roth

Perry Roth

• School Greenville College

• Born ~1969

Biographical Information

Perry Roth played college ball with the Greenville College Panthers from 1990-1994. He moved into coaching baseball soon after his playing career ended.

Roth started his coaching career at Greenville where he served as an assistant coach from 1996-1998. He then took on a head coaching position with the Calvary Academy Saints for the 1999 season. In these years he gained additional coaching experience working with the Twin City Stars of the Central Illinois Collegiate League, first as an assistant coach in 1998 and then as the head coach in 1999. Roth returned to the college ranks during the 2000 season as an assistant coach responsible for hitting at Illinois State University. He remained at ISU through the 2002 season before spending the next year as a volunteer assistant coach at Birmingham-Southern College. Roth headed north in the summer of 2003 as the head coach for the Athletes in Action Fire in the Alaska Baseball League. The Fire were quite successful under his leadership and earned a berth in the 2003 National Baseball Congress World Series later that summer.

Roth left Birmingham-Southern after one season to work as an assistant coach at Bradley University for the 2004 season. This stint also lasted one year before he returned to Birmingham-Southern for the 2005-2006 seasons. Roth might have stayed longer at BSC, but the baseball program dropped from Division I to Division III after the 2006 season and the entire coaching staff left. He followed long time BSC head coach Brian Schoop to the University of Alabama at Birmingham where Roth stayed through 2021. Most of these years were spent as an assistant coach for hitting though he took over as the interim head coach for the 2021 season after Schoop retired.

Roth moved to the pro ranks as hitting coach of the Charleston RiverDogs in 2022-2023 and bench coach of the Bowling Green Hot Rods in 2024.

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University of Alabama at Birmingham Bio