Merrill Morgan
Head Baseball Coach
 Merrill Morgan enters his fifth season as the head baseball coach at Virginia Sate University. During that time, he has compiled an 86-93 record and has guided VSU to two Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) championships.
Morgan previously worked as an assistant coach at Virginia State under Herbert Wheat.
Morgan became the VSU head coach in 2004 and won the CIAA title in his first season.
In the past four seasons, he has been named the CIAA Baseball Coach of the Year twice (in 2005 and 2006).
Last season he also became the first VSU coach in history to lead his team into the NCAA Tournament, and the Trojans turned the first and (so far) only triple play in the history of the NCAA Tournament.
Morgan started his collegiate career as a player for Mount Olive College, where he earned All-Conference Honors in 1984. After transferring to Virginia Commonwealth University, Morgan majored in Health and Physical Education and graduated in 1986. In 1985 he batted .308 for the Rams.
A Dinwiddie, Va., native, Morgan and his wife Angela have two sons, Marcus (22) and Merrill, Jr. (19).
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