Tyler Herbst

Biography

Tyler Herbst enters his third season at WKU and second as an Assistant Coach after spending the 2023 season as the Director of Operations. In his role, Herbst serves as an offensive assistant and first base coach. Before coming to WKU, Herbst spent eight seasons with Head Coach Marc Rardin at Iowa Western Community College as his Recruiting Coordinator. In 2019, Herbst was honored as the ABCA/Baseball America NJCAA Division I Assistant Coach of the Year. In addition, the Reivers won seven consecutive ICCAC Regular Season Conference Championships and had four NJCAA World Series appearances, including the runner-up in 2019. Overall, the Reivers held a record of 375-84 (.817) while Herbst was on staff and had 14 NJCAA All-Americans, two, NJCAA Division I Rawlings Gold Glove Award Winners, one NJCAA Pitcher of the Year, 109 players sign to Division I programs, and the three highest draft picks to come out of IWCC - Dan Tillo (2017 - third round, Kansas City Royals), Keaton Winn (2018 - fifth round, San Francisco Giants), and Sean Chandler (2018 - sixth round, Texas Rangers). Offensively, the Reivers ranked top 10 in the NJCAA for team batting average four times under Herbst (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019). Prior to IWCC, Herbst served as the Recruiting Coordinator/Pitching Coach at Indiana State University. In five seasons, the Sycamores saw the program longest string of consecutive winning seasons in 15 years. During his time on the bench at ISU, the program reached new heights, winnin