Steve Traylor

Steve Traylor

• School Ohio State University, Otterbein College

• Born ~1951

Biographical Information

Steve Traylor won almost 800 games as a college coach.

Traylor played football, basketball and baseball in college. He was assistant coach at Otterbein College for a few years in the 1970s. In 1976, he became basketball coach at Greensboro College. He was on staff at Boca Raton Academy when was hired to start the baseball program at Florida Atlantic University in 1981. He won 286 games in 7 years there. He then was head coach of Duke University from 1988-1999, winning 356 games. He was named Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year in 1992. From 2000-2007, he was head coach of Wofford College, before retiring with over 140 wins there. He also taught physical education at Wofford. He was 769-667-3 overall at the time he announced his retirement.

Traylor coached Chris Capuano, Scott Schoeneweis and other future major leaguers as well as Pat Murphy.

Source: Wofford bio

Year-by-Year Coaching Record

Year	School	Overall Record	Conference Record	Notes
1981	Florida Atlantic University	15-16
1982	Florida Atlantic University	42-14		NAIA District Tournaments
1983	Florida Atlantic University	49-16		NAIA District Tournaments / NAIA Area Tournaments
1984	Florida Atlantic University	40-15
1985	Florida Atlantic University	44-15		Division II Regionals
1986	Florida Atlantic University	44-10
1987	Florida Atlantic University	34-21-2
1988	Duke University	10-35	3-16	ACC
1989	Duke University	20-23	2-14	ACC
1990	Duke University	28-25	4-15	ACC
1991	Duke University	24-27	6-15	ACC
1992	Duke University	38-16	12-12	ACC
1993	Duke University	39-19-1	11-13	ACC
1994	Duke University	33-20	16-8	ACC
1995	Duke University	30-27	4-20	ACC
1996	Duke University	39-18	9-14	ACC
1997	Duke University	33-25	9-14	ACC
1998	Duke University	38-20	8-15	ACC
1999	Duke University	24-31	4-18	ACC
2000	Wofford College	16-38	7-22
2001	Wofford College	17-31	9-17
2002	Wofford College	26-31	14-16	SoCon
2003	Wofford College	9-40	7-22
2004	Wofford College	17-30	8-22
2005	Wofford College	17-31	7-23
2006	Wofford College	20-37	5-22	SoCon
2007	Wofford College	30-33	8-19	SoCon / CWS Regionals