Pat Cottrell

Biography

Pat Cottrell was hired onto the coaching staff in January 2025. Cottrell joins the Rockets with nearly 15 years of collegiate coaching experience across several levels. At Toledo, he will be the team's primary hitting coach and the co-recruiting coordinator. Most recently, Cottrell spent three seasons at UT Martin, where he served at the program's hitting coach, worked with the infielders and outfielders and was the recruiting coordinator. Cottrell helped the Skyhawks' offense flourish, especially in 2023, where UT Martin led the league in batting average (.329), on-base percentage (.429), runs scored (191), RBIs (175) and doubles (63) in conference games. The Skyhawks went 14-10 (.583) in the Ohio Valley Conference that season, the most conference wins and highest conference winning percentage in program history. While at UT Martin, Cottrell coached six All-OVC picks, including first-team selection Andrew Fernandez as wellas five second-team picks in 2023. Caleb Hobson, who earned second-team all-conference in 2023, was drafted in the 13th round of the 2023 MLB Draft by the Colorado Rockies to become the highest draft pick in program history. Before UT Martin, Cottrell was the head assistant baseball coach at Pensacola State College (2016-20), the University of South Carolina – Beaufort (2014-16) and Alabama Southern Community College (2011-14). He served as hitting and infield coach and recruiting coordinator at all three schools among other duties. These programs achieved