The Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Coach of the Year is a baseball award given to the Atlantic Coast Conference's most outstanding coach. The award was first given after the 1981 season.
Eight coaches have won the award more than once, with Mike Martin of Florida State having the most with seven. Of these coaches, four have won in consecutive years, with Brian O'Connor having done so on two occasions with Virginia, but only Dan McDonnell of Louisville has won three consecutive awards. McDonnell won these awards in Louisville's first three seasons as an ACC member.
Of the 15 schools that have played baseball in the ACC since the award was first presented, 10 have had a coach win the award. Among current members, all four exceptions joined the ACC in the 21st century. Virginia Tech joined in 2004 and Boston College joined in 2005, triggering a significant conference realignment in NCAA Division I. A later realignment in 2013 saw Notre Dame and Pittsburgh join the ACC. Maryland, a charter member of the ACC that left for the Big Ten Conference in 2014, never won the award. (Current ACC member Syracuse dropped the sport in 1972, decades before it joined the ACC alongside Notre Dame and Pittsburgh; the other former ACC member, South Carolina, left the ACC in 1971, a decade before the award was established.)
Key Awarded one of the following National Coach of the Year awards that year: Collegiate Baseball Coach of the Year (CB) Baseball America Coach of the Year (BA)Denotes the number of times the coach had been awarded the Coach of the Year award at that point *Elected to the National College Baseball Hall of Fame as a coach but is no longer active *^Active coach who has been elected to the National College Baseball Hall of Fame (as a coach)Conference win–loss record for that seasonConference standing at year's end (Tdenotes a tie)Overall win–loss record for that seasonSeason‡Team won the College World Series
Winners SeasonCoachSchool National Coach ofthe Year AwardsConf.W–LConf.St.OverallW–LReference 1981Duke—5 1982Wake Forest—3 1983Georgia Tech—5 1984NC State—3 1985Virginia—2 1986 (2)NC State—1 1987 (2)Georgia Tech—1 1988*Clemson—1 1989North Carolina—1 1990NC State—3 1991* (2)Clemson—1 1992Duke—5 1993 (3)Georgia Tech—1 1994Clemson—1 1995 (2)Clemson—1 1996Florida State—1 1997Georgia Tech—1 1998 (2)Florida State—1 1999 (3)Florida State—1 2000 (2)Georgia Tech—1 2001 (4)Florida State—1 2002Wake Forest—2 2003NC State—3 2004Virginia—2 2005 (3)Georgia Tech—1 2006 (3)Clemson—1 (Atlantic) 2007 (5)Florida State—1 (Atlantic) 2008 (4)Miami (FL)—1 (Coastal) 2009 (6)Florida State—1 (Atlantic) 2010 (2)Virginia—1 (Coastal) 2011 (3)Virginia—1 (Coastal) 2012 (7)Florida StateBA1 (Atlantic) 2013 (4)Virginia—2 (Coastal) 2014 (5)Virginia—2 (Coastal) 2015 Louisville— 1 (Atlantic) 2016 (2) Louisville— 1 (Atlantic) 2017 (3) Louisville BA 1 (Atlantic) 2018 North Carolina — 2 (Atlantic) 2019 (4) Georgia Tech — 1 (Atlantic) 2020Season canceled due the COVID-19 pandemic, no awards given 2021 Notre Dame — 1 (Atlantic) 2022 Virginia Tech — 1 (Coastal) 2023 Wake Forest — 1 (Atlantic) 2024 North Carolina — 1 (Coastal) 2025 (5) Georgia Tech — 1 2026 Georgia Tech — 1
Winners by school Because NCAA baseball is a spring sport, the "year joined" is the calendar year before the first season of competition.
School (year joined) Winners YearsFlorida State (1992)7 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2012Georgia Tech (1980)9 1983, 1987, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2019, 2025, 2026Virginia (1955)6 1985, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014Clemson (1954)5 1988, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2006NC State (1954) 4 1984, 1986, 1990, 2003 Louisville (2014) 3 2015, 2016, 2017Wake Forest (1954) 3 1982, 2002, 2023Duke (1954)2 1981, 1992North Carolina (1954)3 1989, 2018, 2024Miami (FL) (2005) 1 2008Notre Dame (2013) 1 2021Virginia Tech (2004)1 2022
Footnotes The University of Maryland left the ACC in 2014 to join the Big Ten.
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