Rob Cooper

Head Coach: Wright State University

Rob Cooper enters his sixth season as the head coach of the Raiders and has led the Green and Gold to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances (2006, Corvallis Regional; 2009, Ft. Worth Regional. The veteran coach has completed three stints as an assistant coach with USA Baseball, including during the 2007 and 2009 summer tours.

Cooper has led Wright State to 157 victories over the past five seasons - including four straight 30+ win seasons - and has coached a pair of All-Americans and one Freshman All-American. Five of Cooper's players have been taken in the Major League Baseball Draft, including a school record three players during the 2008 MLB draft.

The Raiders are the first program in Horizon League history to claim three-straight league Player of the Year honors (2007, 2008 and 2009) and 34 players have earned All-Horizon League honors.

Greg Lovelady

Assistant Coach: Wright State University

Coach Lovelady begins his fifth season with the Raiders as the Associate Head Coach. In his tenure with the Raiders he helped guide them to 2006 Horizon League Championship and NCAA Tournament. He saw the development of Joe Smith, the 94th overall pick in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft. Just nine months after being drafted, Smith made his big league debut on opening day in 2007.

In 2007, Coach Lovelady helped guide the Raiders to the Horizon League Championship Game and the highest win total since 1994. Under Coach Lovelady's tutelage, Kyle Kearcher finished the 2007 season as the only ten game winner in the Horizon League and four pitchers have garnered All-League honors.

Prior to Wright State, Lovelady coached at his alma mater, the University of Miami. While there he helped guide the Hurricanes to the College World Series twice and three NCAA Tournament appearances. a player at Miami, Greg led the Hurricanes to the National Championship in 1999 and 2001. After his career Greg signed with the Florida Marlins and played one season of professional baseball.

Ross Oeder

Assistant Coach

Ross Oeder returns to his alma mater as an assistant coach after spending two seasons playing professionally in the St. Louis Cardinals organization. The infielder was an All-American standout at WSU, along with being named the first Horizon League Player of the Year in school history during the 2007, and held a career on-base percentage of .300 during his two seasons in the minor leagues.

One of the most decorated players in Wright State history, Oeder was drafted in the 28th round by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2008 MLB First Year Player Draft and spent his first season with the Batavia Muckdogs of the New York-Penn League. That season, he collected 40 hits, drove in eight RBI's and scored 18 runs in 48 games played for the Muckdogs. The next season, while playing with the Class A Quad City River Bandits, Oeder played in 32 games with 20 hits, 12 runs scored and five home runs. That season he walked eight times, drove in 15 RBI's, while smacking two home runs in a game on July 17.

While at Wright State, Oeder became the first WSU player since 1993 to earn All-American honors and was the first Raider to earn the Horizon League Player of the Year Award during his senior season. The Sandusky native was a Second Team All-American selection in 2007, to go along with First Team All-Horizon League honors. Oeder is one of only five players in Wright State history to end a season with a batting average of .400, clipping a .408 during his senior year.

Oeder is among the career leaders in batting average, on-base percentage, games played, games started, runs scored, hits, doubles, total bases and hit-by-pitch. He sits atop the hit-by-pitch list and owned a .446 on-base percentage in 219 games played during his career. He was a Second Team All-Horizon League selection as a rookie, garnered Horizon League Tournament MVP honors while leading the Green and Gold to the 2006 Horizon League Tournament Championship and was selected to the First Team All-Horizon League squad after leading the league in five offensive categories.

Heading into this season, Oeder still ranks among the career leaders in 15 offensive categories, tops the career charts in fielding assists and appears 15 times in the single season record books. He owns three of the top-four assists seasons and is the career leader in double plays turned.

Oeder earned his Bachelors of Arts in Organizational Leadership from Wright State in 2008 and currently resides in Dayton.

Brian Meyer

Assistant Coach

Brian Meyer joins the Raiders coaching staff after spending the past three seasons on staff at Otterbein College, where he was a three year starter at second base for the Cardinals. Meyer will work with the outfielders, aid in hitting instruction and serve as the bench coach on game days.

Meyer spent the last four seasons with his alma mater and worked as the co-recruiting coordinator and hitting coach. The Cardinals ranked among the national leaders in home runs, doubles and fielding percentage during Meyer's time with the program and had 15 players selected to the All-Ohio Athletic Conference teams, five players named to the All-Region squad and one player garnered All-American honors.

Meyer also works with the Licking County Settlers of the Great Lakes Collegiate Summer League, being named the head coach for the 2010 season. In 2008 and 2009, Meyer acted as the hitting coach for the Settlers that set the program record for wins, batting average, doubles and on-base percentage. While with LC, the team has had seven players named to the All-GLSCL team and set ten program records over two seasons.

Meyer graduated from Otterbein with his Bachelors of Arts in Sports Management in 2004 and went on to earn his K-12 Physical Education Teaching License in 2005. The North Royalton, Ohio native went on to earn his Masters of Arts in Education of OC in June of 2009.