Rick McCarty

Biography

Rick McCarty enters his eighth season in the spring of 2026 as the head coach at Abilene Christian University after being announced on June 12, 2018. McCarty came to ACU after spending 16 years as an assistant coach. Throughout those seasons, the programs he has been with have won 40 or more games 10 different times. As an assistant, McCarty tallied 618 wins, for an average of 38 wins per year. He has seen programs participate in nine regional tournaments and two College World Series. McCarty is just the fourth head baseball coach at ACU since the university re-instated the program in 1991, following Bill Gilbreth, Jimmy Shankle and Bonneau, who resigned May 19, 2018 after 22 seasons as the head coach. McCarty takes over a program that in 2021 will be in its eighth season of NCAA Division I play and fourth season of full eligibility for Southland Conference and NCAA postseason play. In his first season with the Wildcats, McCarty and his staff improved the win total from 21 to 26, but most importantly, more than doubled the Southland Conference win total from five to 13. ACU ended its season on an incredibly high note, sweeping the Nicholls Colonels at The Crutch in a three-game series to eliminate their visitors from the league tournament. ACU finished a game back of eighth place, the requirement to get to Sugar Land for the conference tournament. McCarty coached another Major League Baseball draft pick in Luis Treviño, who was named the Southland Conference Player of the Yea