WSC Baseball
Head Coach
Brian Disch
Head Coach
Brian Disch enters his third year as head coach for the Wayne State College baseball program entering the 2011-12 school year. In his two seasons as Wildcat head coach, Disch has guided WSC to a 52-42 overall record and a 39-20 mark in the NSIC.
In 2011, Wayne State posted a 26-19 overall record while finishing fourth in the Northern Sun Conference at 18-10. It was the 14th straight winning season for Wildcat baseball, who were regionally ranked throughout the season and just missed qualifying for the NCAA Central Regional Tournament.
A Wildcat tradition continued under Disch in 2011 when junior outfielder Mike Bisenius was named Third Team Rawlings/ABCA All-American, marking the eighth time in the last nine years WSC has had an All-American in baseball. Bisenius was later drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 47th round, becoming the first position player from Wayne State to be drafted.
Disch coached the Wildcats to a 26-23 record in 2009, going 21-10 in the Northern Sun Conference to finish sixth place in league play. Under the coaching of Disch, the Wildcats had an All-American selection in 2009 for the seventh time in the last eight years as second baseman Nick Bidroski was selected Third Team All-American by Rawlings and the American Baseball Coaches Association.
Prior to being named head coach, Disch served as Wildcat hitting coach for five seasons (2005-09) before being named interim head coach on July 1, 2009. He also worked as the position coach and was third base coach for Wayne State his last three seasons as an assistant coach. During that time, WSC won five straight Northern Sun Conference regular season titles and advanced to the NCAA Division II National Tournament each season, reaching the regional title game in 2009.
Disch is no stranger to the Wildcat baseball program, having played under Coach John Manganaro from 1999-2004. He earned First Team All-Northern Sun Conference honors as a senior in 2004, hitting .301 for the season with 11 home runs and 38 RBI's. He was also selected the Most Valuable Player in the 2004 NSIC Tournament, helping WSC win a second straight NSIC championship. He was a member of the 2001 and 2004 Central Region teams at WSC.
Besides excelling on the field, Disch also achieved success in the classroom. He was named the 2002-03 Male Scholar Athlete at Wayne State College and was named to the NSIC All-Academic Team three times during his WSC career. Disch has also helped coach Legion baseball in Norfolk during the summer. In 2006, he coached the Norfolk Elkhorn Valley Bank Junior Legion team.
Disch, a native of Norfolk, Neb., also worked two years in the WSC Sports Information office while pursuing his master's degree in math education, which he achieved in 2007. Brian and his wife Lisa reside in Norfolk with their five-year-old daughter Allison and son Caleb (2).
