Terry Rooney

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• Schools Radford University, Davis & Elkins College

Terry Rooney is a college coach.

Rooney was 12-4 in college; he finished second in Radford history with 79 games pitched. He was pitching coach at George Washington University in 1997 and at James Madison University in 1998-1999. In 2000-2001, Terry was pitching coach for Old Dominion University. He recruited Justin Verlander while there.

Rooney's next stop as pitching coach was Stetson University in 2002-2003. From 2004-2006, he was pitching coach at the University of Notre Dame; in 2004, his school had a 3.43 ERA, 9th in the country. He worked with Jeff Samardzija, Jeff Manship and John Axford.

In 2007-2008, Terry was associate head coach at Louisiana State University. He helped recruit the 2007 class, which was ranked #1 in the country by Collegiate Baseball. The school went to the 2008 College World Series.

Rooney got his first head coaching job in June 2008 when he took over the reigns of the University of Central Florida.

Source: UCF bio