Matt Allison

Head Coach
Office Phone: (503) 370-6011
E-mail: mallison@willamette.edu

Wiillamette Head Coach Matt Allison is in his fifth year leading the Bearcat baseball team. He is only the fourth head coach to work with the Bearcats in the past 30 years and just the sixth head coach since WU began competing in baseball in 1927. Allison, who joined the Bearcats for the 2004 season, has earned an overall record of 72-77 (.483) at Willamette. He led the Bearcats to a 20-18 record in 2005. In 2006, WU started with an 11-4 mark, before finishing 17-19. In 2007, the 'Cats started 3-9, but went 15-12 the rest of the way.

Allison began his coaching career as an assistant at the State University of New York at Cortland from 1987-92. He then went to Cornell University, where he was the head assistant coach from 1992-96. He was an assistant coach and hitting instructor at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo in 1996-97. At Cal Poly, he coached under former Willamette player and alumnus Ritch Price, who is now in his sixth year as the head coach at the University of Kansas. Allison helped Cal Poly rank in the top 25 in the nation in several offensive categories. From 1999-02, Allison was the head assistant coach at Georgetown University. While at Georgetown, he worked as the team's hitting instructor and outfield coach. In 2002-03, Allison was an assistant coach at the University of California at Berkeley.

Allison has been actively involved with summer collegiate teams. He has been the coach of the Matsu Miners in the Alaska League and also coached the St. Cloud Riverbats of the Northwoods Collegiate League. He works at many top high school baseball camps, such as the Stanford High School All-Star Camp and the Kalae Iki youth baseball clinic in Hawaii.

In addition to coaching baseball, Allison has been a professor in Economics and English during his career. After receiving a bacelor's degree in Economics from the University of California-Riverside in 1982, he went on to earn his master's degree in English and Textual Studies from Syracuse University in 1990, as well as a master's degree in Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York in 1998. Allison has lectured in macroeconomics at Georgteown. He also was a professor in the Department of Economics at Cal Poly. He has taught English at Syracuse, Tompkins-Cortland CC, SUNY-Cortland, Elmira College and Cuesta Junior College.