CINCINNATI – University of Cincinnati Director of Athletics John Cunningham announced on Sunday the hire of Jordan Bischel as the Bearcats’ head baseball coach.
Bischel, who signed a six-year contract, will be the 33rd head coach in program history.
The Green Bay, Wis., native comes to UC from Central Michigan, where he served as head coach for five seasons. He also spent four seasons as head coach of Northwood, an NCAA Division II program in Midland, Mich., and two seasons at the helm of NAIA program Midland University in Fremont, Neb.
Overall, he has a 314-156 record (.668) as an NCAA coach, including nine winning seasons and eight conference championships (four at Central Michigan, four at Northwood).
Bischel led the Chippewas to four Mid-American Conference (MAC) championships — two regular season and two tournament — and three NCAA Regionals. The Chippewas went 177-80 (.689) during Bischel’s tenure.
In five seasons as head coach at CMU, Bischel had a 102-32 MAC record and posted three consecutive 40-win full seasons for the first time since 1986-88. Bischel’s teams won a combined 132 games in 2019, ’21 and ’22, marking the winningest three-year stretch in program history.
Prior to his time at CMU, Bischel was the head coach of Northwood from 2014 to 2018. The Timberwolves posted a combined 137-76 record and won two Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Championships as well as two GLIAC Tournament titles. Over his last two seasons, Northwood won 84 games – the best two-year stretch prior to Bischel’s arrival featured 55 wins (1989-90).
Before Northwood, Bischel coached at Midland University in Fremont, Neb., for two seasons, leading the Warriors to a combined 74-45 record. In his first year at Midland, the Warriors won 31 games, an 18-victory improvement over the previous year.
Bischel also coached in the Northwoods League for five seasons, four with the Green Bay Bullfrogs and one with the Wisconsin Woodchucks. He also served as the pitching coach for three seasons at Northwest Missouri State and was an assistant coach at John Carroll University in Ohio and at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin.
Bischel was an academic all-conference first baseman and pitcher at St. Norbert from 2000 to 2003. He earned all-conference honors and served as the team captain as a senior.
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