Matt Collins has joined the McNeese baseball coaching staff. Joins the Cowboys from the ULM coaching staff

Matt Collins, who was a career .334 collegiate hitter, has joined the McNeese State baseball coaching staff as an assistant coach.

He’s a graduate of UL Monroe where he played on the school’s Sun Belt championship team of 2008 and collected the 10th most hits (79) in school history in 2009.

Collins replaces Clay Van Hook who recently signed on as a volunteer coach at Rice University.

Cowboy head coach Terry Burrows said that Collins will move into the role that Van Hook played, taking over a recruiting area and helping with hitting and fielding. He will also be one of the base coaches during the games.

This past season the 24 year old Collins, who is the son of McNeese football defensive coordinator Mike Collins and the grandson of Pat Collins who coached ULM to a national football title in 1987, served as a volunteer coaching assistant with the Warhawks and as a student assistant the year before.

The graduate of ULM also played two seasons of baseball at LSU-Eunice, helping his team to its first national junior college championship and serving as the team captain. He accounted for all three of LSU-Eunice’s runs in the World Series championship game and was named to the all-tournament team.

Collins is also a graduate of Parkview Baptist High School where he earned all-state recognition in both football and baseball and helped lead his team to the Class AAA state baseball title.

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