Jeff Stickley

Jeff Stickley is in his 22nd season as head coach of the Washington and Lee baseball team.

Stickley, who serves as the chairman of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference baseball coaches committee, has led the W&L baseball program to nine-straight winning seasons and a 194-116-2 (.625) record since 1999. He is the winningest baseball coach in school history with 293 career victories (293-295-14).

Stickley has guided the Generals to the ODAC Postseason Tournament each of the past five seasons and his teams have advanced to the ODAC Championship game twice during that span and three times overall.

W&L has notched a new program record for victories three times in the past nine seasons, culminating during the 2003 season when the Generals went 28-8 overall and advanced to the ODAC Championship game. His 2001 squad went 23-8 overall and his 1999 team posted a 21-12 record and reached the ODAC championship game.

The three-time ODAC Coach of the Year (1996, 1999, 2003), Stickley also guided the Generals to a 27-13 mark and an appearance in the ODAC Tournament Semifinals in 2005.

Stickley is in his second tour of duty at Washington and Lee. He served as an assistant baseball and football coach at W&L from 1982 to 1985. He worked with the Generals pitchers and infielders and helped W&L reach the finals of the ODAC finals in 1984 and the semifinals in 1985.

In 1986, Stickley left W&L to become athletic director and head baseball coach at Lexington High School. He returned to W&L in 1987 as head baseball coach and assistant football coach, serving as the team's offensive line coach and offensive coordinator until 2003.

Stickley earned his master's degree in secondary education and administration from James Madison University in 1985. He graduated from Bridgewater College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education in 1977.

Stickley served as baseball and football coach for Alta Vista High School from 1977 to 1979 and as an assistant baseball and football coach at Lexington High School from 1979 to 1980. He has also served as a coach in the Harrisonburg summer league.

He is a 1972 graduate of Harrisonburg High School, where he was an all-district shortstop for the Blue Streaks and a class president for three years.

Stickley, his wife Daphne, and daughter Sarah Elizabeth, reside in Rockbridge County.