Clarendon College announced last week that it has hired Devin McIntosh as the new Bulldog Baseball head coach and Raquel Hawkins as the new head coach of the Lady Bulldog softball team.
McIntosh accepted the position on June 21 and will come to Clarendon immediately. McIntosh was assistant coach at Richland College before accepting the new position at Clarendon. He succeeds Chris Joblin who resigned to take a position at Galveston College.
Coach McIntosh has coached for eight years and brings NCAA Division I experience to Clarendon College coaching at two different DI programs at Nigeria University and University at Buffalo. In addition, he has also coached in three of the premier summer collegiate wooden bat leagues – Cape Cod League, Great Lakes Collegiate Baseball League, and Northwoods Collegiate League.
He has coached over 100 players who have been drafted or signed free agent contracts with Major League Baseball including six first-round draft picks and ten major leaguers.
McIntosh is attending showcases and scheduling try outs to fill the squad for the upcoming year.
“He and his fiancé will marry in August and they look forward to getting settled in Clarendon,” CC Athletic Director John Green said. “Coach McIntosh looks to build a strong baseball program and involve his team in the community and surrounding area this fall.”
Hawkins was raised in Monahans and started her collegiate career at WJCAC opponent Western Texas College where she was on the team that advanced to the NJCAA National Softball Tournament. After earning numerous honors she was recruited to Lubbock Christian University where, in the first year of the softball program at LCU, they won the NAIA National Championship. Hawkins is an NFCA All American and has earned 17 other conference and region awards on her resume.
As an assistant coach at both Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University, Hawkins created a network of coaches at the four-year level which will benefit her as she starts recruiting softball players to Clarendon.
“Raquel is the real deal,” Green said. “I am amazed at the respect she has across all levels of college softball. She was endorsed by many coaches and has big plans for the CC Softball Program.”
Hawkins follows Coach Candra Crittendon who resigned following her husband’s relocation to another job.
Green says Hawkins has hit the ground running and has scheduled recruiting events across the Panhandle and beyond. She is also making plans to enhance and improve the softball field as well as scheduling for the next spring semester.
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