KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – For the third time this year, Tennessee’s Tony Vitello was named the nation’s top collegiate baseball coach, this time earning D1Baseball.com National Coach of the Year honors.
Vitello, who led the Volunteers to their first national title in program history last month, was also named the National Coach of the Year by Baseball America and the American Baseball Coaches Association prior to Tuesday’s announcement from D1Baseball.com.
Vitello is the only head coach in program history to win multiple national coach of the year honors in the same year and has now done so twice after also accomplishing the feat in 2021.
This marks Vitello’s first national coach of the year honor from D1Baseball.com, and in total, is the sixth time he’s been named the nation’s top college baseball coach in his seven-year stint at UT. Tennessee’s head man was tabbed national coach of the year in 2021 by Perfect Game and the National College Baseball Writers Association. Perfect Game selected Vitello as its national coach of the year in 2022, as well.
