Adam Vasil joined SIUE as the volunteer assistant in September 2021 and was elevated to a full-time assistant following the 2022 season. Vasil's primary focus will be on the Cougars' pitchers and catchers.
In 2023, SIUE pitchers were second in the league in total strikeouts with 434. Opponents hit .278 against SIUE hurlers, which also ranked fourth in the league. The Cougars’ team ERA ranked sixth in the league at 6.38.
The Cougars improved by five wins with Vasil on staff and returned to the OVC Tournament for the first time since 2015. SIUE won a pair of games in the tournament, its first ever wins in the Championship.
Vasil came to SIUE after spending the 2021 season at Miami (Ohio) as the director of pitching development and bullpen coach. The Redhawks ranked fifth in the NCAA in strikeouts per nine innings (11.2), 16th in strikeout to walk ratio (3.07), 16th in earned run average (3.61), 22nd in hits per nine innings (7.78) and 25th in WHIP (1.27).
At Miami, Vasil coached three pitchers who went on to play affiliated baseball, including Sam Bachman, who was the ninth overall draft pick of the Angels in 2021.
Before his time at Miami, Vasil was the head assistant Coach at Coker University, a Division II school in South Carolina, where he also served as the lead recruiter and pitching coach. Under Vasil, the Cobras improved their total strikeouts, strikeouts per nine innings, walks and hits allowed.
The native of Cleveland, Ohio, spent the 2019 college season as a graduate assistant pitching coach at the University of Indianapolis where he also assisted game day scouting. There he helped the Greyhounds improve upon their overall earned run average, runs allowed, batting average against and WHIP.
Vasil also worked as a training specialist at the Florida Baseball Ranch (now Florida Baseball Armory) in Plant City, Florida.
Vasil began his college career at Ashland University where he was part of back-to-back conference championships and was a Rawlings Gold Glove nominee. He finished with one season as a graduate at Indianapolis.
He earned his bachelor’s from Ashland in 2017 and an MBA from Indianapolis in 2019.
