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Aaron SwickAaron Swick

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

Aaron Swick completed his first season as Willamette University's head baseball coach in 2009. He led the Bearcats to a 21-17 overall record, including 18-13 in the Northwest Conference. Swick, who served as the pitching coach and baseball recruiting coordinator at Willamette for the 2006 and 2007 seasons, began his current duties in September, 2008.

Swick was an assistant coach with the Green Bay Bullfrogs of the Northwoods League in the summers of 2007 and 2008. In 2007, the Bullfrogs went 43-25 for the league's best overall record and became the first expansion team in Northwoods League history to qualify for the playoffs. The Northwoods League is a sanctioned collegiate summer baseball league.

During the 2007-08 academic year, Swick was the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at South Dakota State University. He also worked on a master's degree in Sports Pedagogy.

Swick played college baseball at Saddleback College and at the University of California-Berkeley. While attending Cal, he was a key pitcher and achieved a 1.86 earned run average as a senior. He graduated from Cal in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science.

He also pitched for two seasons at Saddleback. He was named All-Conference as a sophomore, when he helped Saddleback go 35-13 for the season.

In the summer of 2006, Swick was interim head coach for the Wilson Tobs in the Coastal Plain League. In the summer of 2007, he became the pitching coach in Green Bay. During his three-year career as a collegiate and summer league coach, he has coached 25 players who have gone on to compete in professional baseball.

Joe BrothertonMike Doran

Assistant Coach

Mike Doran is in his second season with the Bearcats. He brings significant coaching experience that includes nine seasons as the head coach at South Salem High School and six years as an assistant coach at Sprague High School. He also has coached American Legion ball since 1994 and is currently an assistant for
the Withnell Dodgers in Salem.

Doran grew up in Portland, Ore., and in Idaho. He played baseball at Lewis-Clark State College (Idaho) and graduated with a B.A. degree in Social Studies and Russian Language in 1967.

He lives in Salem with his wife, Lana. They are parents of three adult children: Timberlee, Maren and John.

Joe BrothertonJoe Brotherton

Assistant Coachs
Phone (503) 991-9069
E-mail: jbrother@willamette.edu

Joe Brotherton begins his first year on the Willamette coaching staff. He most recently was a member of the Fontanetti Athletic Baseball Club in San Jose, Calif., in 2008. Fontanetti won the Western Region Championship of the American Amateur Baseball Congress and participated in the Stan Musial World Series in Huntsville, Texas. Brotherton has coached high school baseball in San Jose for the past four years.

Brotherton attended California Lutheran University from 1998 until 2001 and helped CLU reach NCAA Division III World Series in 1999. In 2001, he was invited to train in the Cincinnati Reds development program. After an injury, Brotherton gave up his hope of playing professionally and began his coaching career, while still participating in semi-pro baseball.

Coach Brotherton will also direct the Willamette summer camps this year. The camps will be offered to kids ages 8 to 14 and will take place at the Willamette baseball facility. Brotherton also offers private hitting and fielding lessons.