Kerry Shaw has been named the head coach for the Kansas City Roos, the school announced earlier in the week.
Kansas City, formerly known as Missouri-Kansas City or UMKC, announced an athletics branding change earlier in the summer.
Shaw takes the helm at Kansas City after spending a single season as the hitting coach at Texas. He helped lead the Longhorns to forty-six victories on the season and a berth in the Super Regionals, guiding the team’s offense to a single-season program record for doubles. The Longhorns hit .302 as a team, with five players over the .300 mark. Sophomore Janae Jefferson posted a .408 mark that paced the program.
Prior to joining the staff at Texas, Shaw spent three seasons as the head coach at the University of Mary, a Division II school in Bismarck, North Dakota. His coaching resume also includes a single season as an assistant coach at Southeast Missouri, as well as more than a decade coaching high school baseball and softball.
In addition to his coaching career, Shaw played collegiate baseball and played in the San Francisco Giants’ organization from 1988-91.
At Kansas City, Shaw takes over a program that posted a 27-29 record on the 2019 season. That record included a 6-12 mark in conference play; the Roos batted .280 as a team with thirty-seven home runs. The team’s pitching staff assembled a 3.29 cumulative ERA with an opponent’s batting average of .272.
