Ritch Price

Ritch Price

• School Linn-Benton Community College, Willamette University, Cal State Hayward

• Born ~1956

Biographical Information

Ritch Price has been a college coach for many years. He started his career as a high school coach. From 1983-1986, he was head coach and assistant football coach at Menlo College. In 1986, he was named the Coast Conference Coach of the Year.

From 1988-1994, Price was director of athletics and head coach at De Anza Community College. He was named Coast Conference Coach of the Year from 1992-1994; during that time, he coached Jason Simontacchi.

Price became head coach at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo from 1995-2002, when they moved up to NCAA Division I. He was named the best coach in the Western Athletic Conference in 1996. Among players he produced at Cal Poly was future big leaguer Kevin Correia.

Price then moved on to the University of Kansas, becoming their 32nd head coach ever when he took the reigns in the 2002 off-season. His players at Kansas have included Travis Metcalf, A.J. Van Slyke. In 2005, he became the fastest team in school history to 100 wins. In 2006, Price led them to the Big 12 Conference title, their first conference championship since 1949.

Ritch was an assistant coach with Team USA in the 2008 World University Championship. That year, he was voted into the California Community College Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

His sons Ryne Price, Robby Price, and Ritchie Price played under his guidance then appeared in the minor leagues. Ritchie was the youngest head baseball coach at the Division I level as head coach at South Dakota State University (2009-2011).

Primary Source: KSU bio

Year-by-Year Coaching Record

Year	School	Overall Record	Conference Record	Notes
1983	Menlo College
1984	Menlo College
1985	Menlo College
1986	Menlo College
1988	De Anza College			CCCAA
1989	De Anza College
1990	De Anza College
1991	De Anza College
1992	De Anza College			CCCAA
1993	De Anza College
1994	De Anza College
1995	Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo	21-29	13-17
1996	Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo	30-23	18-12
1997	Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo	37-21	15-15
1998	Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo	16-42	7-21
1999	Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo	21-34	9-21
2000	Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo	32-24	18-12
2001	Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo	30-26	8-10
2002	Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo	30-29-1	15-9
2003	University of Kansas	35-28	9-18	Big 12
2004	University of Kansas	31-31-1	7-19
2005	University of Kansas	36-28	11-15	Big 12
2006	University of Kansas	43-25	13-14	Big 12 / CWS Regionals
2007	University of Kansas	28-30	9-17
2008	University of Kansas	30-27	9-18
2009	University of Kansas	39-24	15-12	Big 12 / CWS Regionals
2010	University of Kansas	31-27-1	11-15-1	Big 12
2011	University of Kansas	26-30	9-18
2012	University of Kansas	24-34	7-16	Big 12
2013	University of Kansas	34-25	12-12	Big 12
2014	University of Kansas	35-26	15-9	Big 12 / CWS Regionals
2015	University of Kansas	23-32	8-15
2016	University of Kansas	20-35-1	6-17
2017	University of Kansas	30-28	11-13	Big 12
2018	University of Kansas	27-30	8-15	Big 12
2019	University of Kansas	32-26	12-12	Big 12
2020	University of Kansas	7-10	0-0
2021	University of Kansas	30-27	8-16	Big 12
2022	University of Kansas	20-35	4-20