Jake Sidwell - Baseball Coach - George Washington University Athletics

Calendar

Oct 11

10:30 a.m.

Baseball

vs Buff vs. Blue

Oct 19

12:00 p.m.

Baseball

vs Catholic

Oct 24

12:00 p.m. (24th) / 10:30 a.m. (25th & 26th)

Baseball

vs Buff & Blue World Series

Nov 2

12:00 p.m.

Baseball

at VMI

Full Schedule

Jake Sidwell

Title:
Volunteer Assistant Coach
Email:
jsidwell@gwu.edu
Phone:
994-5933

Sidwell enters his first year as a volunteer assistant coach for the GW baseball program in 2018-19. He spent last the last two seasons as a graduate assistant at VCU.

Prior to his time in Richmond, Sidwell played for four years at Davidson from 2014-17. Sidwell was a member of the 2017 Wildcat team that advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals at Texas A&M after winning the North Carolina Regional with a pair of wins over North Carolina and a win over Florida Gulf Coast.

Sidwell was drafted in the 39th round by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2013, and became the first drafted player ever to attend Davidson. In 2016, he started 48 out of the 52 games he appeared in at designated hitter and catcher. He finished the season with a .309 batting average, 54 hits, 34 runs scored, six doubles, one home run and 23 RBI in 175 at-bats. His batting average was second on the team, and he also posted a .360 slugging percentage and a .410 on base percentage. He also notched 39 starts at catcher in 2015, where he posted a .984 fielding percentage behind the plate and recorded 21 hits, 21 runs scored, and six RBI on 109 at-bats.

Sidwell was a three-year letter winner at Olympia High School in Windermere, Florida. He has two younger siblings, Kirk and Marissa, and is the son of Rob and Molly Sidwell. His father played baseball at Flagler College and coached at the University of Central Florida.