Wilmington Sharks
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- Location: Wilmington, NC
- League: [[Coastal Plain (Summer Collegiate) League|Coastal Plain League
- Stadium: Buck Hardee Field
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[edit] Team Bio
Founded in 1997, the Wilmington Sharks are a Summer Collegiate Baseball team playing in Wilmington, NC, and are founding members of the Coastal Plain League. The Sharks play their home games at Buck Hardee Field. As a summer college baseball organization, the Sharks are dedicated and designed to provide minor league level competition for NCAA players that wish to continue on into professional baseball. The Wilmington Sharks operate in the model a Minor League team: playing nightly before fans in stadiums which seat thousands, using wood bats and minor league specification equipment, and experiencing road trips between games. The Sharks actively recruit players, and have hosted some of the premier collegiate athletes from throughout the United States. Like all other summer collegiate players, Wilmington Sharks athletes are unpaid in order to maintain their NCAA eligibility, and live with host families in the same manner as Single A and Independent League players.
[edit] 2007 On Field Staff
- Head Coach: Andrew Wright - West Virginia University
- Assistant Coach: Grant Achilles - University of North Carolina Charlotte
[edit] Championships and Honors
- 1999 Coastal Plain League Champions
- 2002 Coastal Plain League South Division Champions
