Carl Iwasaki is the ninth head baseball coach at the University of Northern Colorado. Iwasaki played at UNC from 1981 to 1984 under Hall of Fame Coach Tom Petroff and graduated in 1985.

 

Iwasaki spent six seasons before coming to Greeley as the head coach at Austin College, where he was honored as Conference Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2007. His 2007 team won the SCAC Conference and went on to the NCAA West Regional.  

He comes to Northern Colorado with more than 20 years of coaching experience in Colorado, Hawaii, California and Texas and with extensive national recruiting ties. 

 

Iwasaki, a Hawaian native, stresses the importance of merging the Bears' Great West Conference athletic goals with re-uniting Northern Colorado Baseball alumni, facility upgrades, academic excellence and recruiting goals and stressing the importance of keeping Colorado high school baseball player at home to play for the Bears while they graduate from a great institution.