Western Carolina Hires New Head Coach

It was just announced that Bobby Moranda will become the new head coach at Western Carolina for the upcoming season.  After spending six years with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets as the pitching coach, Moranda will assume the head coach position with Western Carolina.  Moranda will replace former head coach Todd Raleigh who recently moved to the University of Tennessee.

While a pitching coach at Georgia Tech he helped lead the team to four top ten finishes and also to two College World Series'.  He has coached a wide variety of pitchers that have been successful including Matt Wieters who was selected 5th overall in the 2007 draft.

Moranda could guide Western Carolina to their first College World Series appearances in the coming years.  He has the skills to turn his new team into a surprise team such as UC Irvine was in this year's CWS.