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Ryan Sawyers returns for his fourth season on the Purdue coaching staff, joining the Boilermakers on a full-time basis in August 2008. Sawyers will work primarily as the pitching coach and will also assist with defense. In the summer of 2009 he was promoted to the position of Recruiting Coordinator for the Boilermakers. He previously served as the volunteer assistant during the 2004 season. During the 2010 season the Boilermakers broke the record for strikeouts in a season with 435 which also led all Big Ten pitching staffs. The Boiler hurlers also finished the season with the Big Ten's best batting average against with opponents hitting .276 against Purdue throughout the entire season. Sawyers has seen three pitchers selected in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft during his two seasons as pitching coach in West Lafayette. In that same period, the Boilermakers have claimed four Big Ten Conference Pitcher of the Week awards and one National Player of the Week award. Also during the 2010 season, its 123rd overall, senior right-hander Matt Bischoff became Purdue's all-time strikeout king during an April game against Northwestern. The Decatur, Ind., native later broke the single-season strikeout record against those same Wildcats during the Big Ten Conference Tournament in Columbus, Ohio. Sawyers came to Purdue with a Central Illinois Collegiate League (now the Prospect League) title in tow after leading the Springfield Sliders to the championship in 2008. He was the Sliders' head coach in their first season in the league and led the team to a CICL-best 30-17 regular-season record. The Sliders won the first half, the regular season and the league championship. Sawyers was named Manager of the 2008 CICL All-Star team which defeated the KIT All-Star Team in Huntingburg, Ind. Prior to joining Schreiber's staff at Purdue and his summer appointment in the CICL, he most recently served as an assistant at Garden City Community College in Garden City, Kan. During his three seasons (2005-08) with the Broncbusters he sent numerous players on to the Division I ranks and professional baseball, while also helping to lead them to a NJCAA Region VI runner-up finish in 2007. During Sawyers' time in Garden City players signed letters of intent with Purdue, Kansas, Florida Atlantic, Southeast Louisiana and Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Along with his pitching staff duties at Garden City, Sawyers coordinated recruiting, travel, fundraising, facility maintenance, strength and conditioning and academic monitoring. The Busters finished the 2008 academic year with the third best team GPA in the country. He began his collegiate coaching career with a three-year stint at Shepherd University (2000-03) where the Rams won three consecutive division titles and finished runners-up at the 2002 NCAA II North Atlantic Regional. Under Sawyers' direction the Rams finished the season with the nation's 29th best ERA and led the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in ERA in 2002 and 2003. After Shepherd, Sawyers spent a season as an assistant at Allegany College of Maryland and has also served as the head coach for the Front Royal Cardinals in the Valley Baseball League and as the pitching coach for the Chillicothe Paints independent professional team in the Frontier League. His collegiate playing career includes pitching two seasons at West Virginia Wesleyan College where he was named the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year in 1999 and led the team in strikeouts both years. He also helped pitch Allegany College of Maryland to a Junior College World Series appearance in 1997. At Allegany Sawyers played for Junior College Hall of Fame Coach Steve Bazarnic. Sawyers, who holds a bachelor's degree from West Virginia Wesleyan College and a master's degree from West Virginia University, lives in Lafayette with his wife, Jaime, son, Brady, and daughter, Chelsea.
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