Justin Aspegren

Biography

Justin Aspegren is in his second season as an assistant coach with the Owls. He joined the program in the fall of 2023 as a Quality Control Assistant before moving into his current role in January of 2024. Aspegren will assist Parker Bangs with the Owls’ pitching staff in 2024 while also coaching first base and coordinating defensive positioning. In his first season on South Main, Aspegren worked with the Owls’ catchers who were second in the AAC with 25 runners thrown out, and coordinated all of Rice’s defense in a season where the Owls led the AAC and ranked second nationally at the end of the regular season with 61 double plays (the most for Rice since 2013). Aspegren is entering his 18th year of coaching at the collegiate level, including eight at Appalachian State where he served as an assistant coach and pitching coach from 2016-23. During his time with the Mountaineers, his hurlers posted five of the top 10 season strikeout totals in school history, including a school record 459 last year as App State topped 30 wins for the first time since 2013. After moving to the Sun Belt Conference in the year before his arrival, the Mountaineers reached the SBS Tournament for the first time in 2019 and picked up their first tournament win in 2021. Four App State players were drafted from 2017-2023: Matt Brill (12th, 2017), Colin Schmid (13th, 2018), Jack Hartman (4th, 2020), and Xander Hamilton (14th, 2023), as was catcher Chandler Seagle (30th, 2017) who made his MLB debut with S