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DePauw taps former player as its new baseball coach
Blake Allen, a former DePauw student-athlete and assistant coach and most recently baseball assistant at Vanderbilt University, has been named DePauw's head baseball coach.
Allen served two stints (2004-08 and 2015-16) for a total of five seasons with the Commodores with responsibilities that included first base coach, assistant hitting coach, bullpen coach and catching coach.
During that time, Vanderbilt appeared in four NCAA regionals with a 210-101 overall record including a Southeastern Conference championship.
Additionally, 45 student-athletes were selected in the MLB draft including two MLB All-Stars and 12 total players currently or previously competing in the majors. Commodores players earned 50 All-SEC Academic accolades and 10 all-America honors during that time.
Allen was also assistant baseball coach and recruiting coordinator for seven seasons (2009-15) at Western Kentucky where he held roles as the Hilltoppers' hitting, pitching and catching coach.
* Glass named women's lacrosse coach -- Tucker Glass, assistant women's lacrosse coach at Hartwick College each of the last two years, has been named DePauw head women's lacrosse coach.
He helped the Hawks to a 13-18 record and 5-11 mark in the Empire 8, while assisting in all facets of the program.
Glass also served as Hartwick's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee advisor.
Glass served as a governance intern at the NCAA during the 2013-14 year where he assisted in the daily operation of the office as a full-time post-graduate intern. He also assisted at the 2014 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship.
Prior to that he was a teacher and modified girl's lacrosse coach in the Oswego, N.Y., School District and led his team to an 11-2 record.
Glass earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from SUNY Plattsburgh and followed that with a Master of Science in adolescence education from Plattsburgh in December 2012.
A captain of the Plattsburgh lacrosse team. Glass was named to the 2012 State University of New York Athletic Conference All-Tournament Team in addition to earning conference all-academic honors in 2009 and 2010 and being named to the SUNYAC Commissioner's List in 2011.
Glass also was inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma Student-Athlete Honor Society and earned SUNY Plattsburgh's Provost's Award for the spring and fall of 2011. While recovering from a season-ending injury in 2010, Glass served as a volunteer assistant coach for the team.
Glass served as president of SUNY Plattsburgh's SAAC for two years and represented all student-athletes from the SUNYAC and Empire 8 conferences on the NCAA Division III SAAC. In that capacity, he attended the 2011, 2012 and 2013 NCAA Conventions.