Eastern Michigan Athletics
EMU's Scott Wetherbee Named to NCAA Baseball Committee
11/1/2022 12:12:00 PM | Baseball, General
Wetherbee's term of service on the committee will begin immediately and continue through Aug. 2023
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (EMUEagles.com) - Eastern Michigan University Vice President/Director of Athletics Scott Wetherbee has been named to the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee. Wetherbee will serve on the committee that provides administrative oversight of the Division I Baseball Championship, including the College World Series. His term of service on the committee will begin immediately and continues through August 31, 2023.
"I am very pleased and honored to have the opportunity to serve on the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee," said Wetherbee. "This is a great group of athletic directors already serving on the committee, and I look forward to working together with them to advance the great game of college baseball."
The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee is responsible for selecting, seeding, and bracketing the entire 64-team tournament field, which currently includes the automatic qualification of 30 conference champions with the remainder of the field selected as at-large choices by the committee.
This year's bracket is scheduled to be announced on Monday, May 29. The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship includes three rounds of play - the regionals, super regionals and Men's College World Series.
School and conference administrators receive nominations by their conference and represent a cross-section of the Division I membership to earn selection to the committee. Wetherbee replaces Bob Moosbrugger on the committee, who began his four-year term of service in 2019.
During Wetherbee's tenure, Eastern Michigan has won 16 Mid-American Conference team championships and 92 MAC individual championships. Furthermore, 298 EMU student-athletes have collected All-MAC honors and 703 have collected Academic All-MAC recognition under his leadership. All told, Eastern has won 155 MAC team titles since 1973, the most of any league institution over that span.
In addition, Wetherbee continues to work on the department's plan to build a safe and highly-effective atmosphere for its student-athletes through the continual revitalization of its athletic facilities. EMU opened the Student-Athlete Performance Center on Aug. 27, 2019, marking the first major construction project on the athletics campus since the opening of the Convocation Center in 1998. Additional projects include artificial turf at the soccer/lacrosse complex, a locker room for the swimming & diving team, and an expanded erg room for the rowing program.
Under his guidance, Eastern Michigan Athletics has secured more than $20 million in cash and pledges to help upgrade facilities and further enhance the student-athlete experience. EMU has generated six gifts of $1 million or more, including the first seven-figure gift in Eastern Athletics history, an $8 million gift for a GameAbove Golf Performance Center (the largest gift in school history), $2.7 million to rename the campus arena in honor of former student-athlete and NBA Legend George Gervin, and a $1 million sponsorship (largest in school history).
Eastern Michigan also continues to expand opportunities for female student-athletes with the addition of women's lacrosse as the EMU's 19th varsity sport. The team begins play in the 2022-23 academic year.
Overall, Wetherbee has made 12 head coaching hires in his time at Eastern Michigan, welcoming new leaders for lacrosse (Sara Tisdale) and tennis (Steve Schram) in June 2022. He also hired volleyball head coach Darcy Dorton, men's basketball head coach Stan Heath, women's golf head coach Stephanie Jennings, gymnastics head coach Katie Minasola, swimming head coach Derek Perkins, and baseball head coach Eric Roof. Additionally, he promoted Sue Parks from head women's track & field/cross country to oversee both the men's and women's programs.
Wetherbee chairs several MAC committees, including the Volleyball Coaches, the Basketball Game Management, and the league's 75th Anniversary Celebration. Furthermore, he is the only AD in the league to have earned Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) certification from participation in conference-wide continuing educational activities.
"I am very pleased and honored to have the opportunity to serve on the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee," said Wetherbee. "This is a great group of athletic directors already serving on the committee, and I look forward to working together with them to advance the great game of college baseball."
The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee is responsible for selecting, seeding, and bracketing the entire 64-team tournament field, which currently includes the automatic qualification of 30 conference champions with the remainder of the field selected as at-large choices by the committee.
This year's bracket is scheduled to be announced on Monday, May 29. The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship includes three rounds of play - the regionals, super regionals and Men's College World Series.
School and conference administrators receive nominations by their conference and represent a cross-section of the Division I membership to earn selection to the committee. Wetherbee replaces Bob Moosbrugger on the committee, who began his four-year term of service in 2019.
During Wetherbee's tenure, Eastern Michigan has won 16 Mid-American Conference team championships and 92 MAC individual championships. Furthermore, 298 EMU student-athletes have collected All-MAC honors and 703 have collected Academic All-MAC recognition under his leadership. All told, Eastern has won 155 MAC team titles since 1973, the most of any league institution over that span.
In addition, Wetherbee continues to work on the department's plan to build a safe and highly-effective atmosphere for its student-athletes through the continual revitalization of its athletic facilities. EMU opened the Student-Athlete Performance Center on Aug. 27, 2019, marking the first major construction project on the athletics campus since the opening of the Convocation Center in 1998. Additional projects include artificial turf at the soccer/lacrosse complex, a locker room for the swimming & diving team, and an expanded erg room for the rowing program.
Under his guidance, Eastern Michigan Athletics has secured more than $20 million in cash and pledges to help upgrade facilities and further enhance the student-athlete experience. EMU has generated six gifts of $1 million or more, including the first seven-figure gift in Eastern Athletics history, an $8 million gift for a GameAbove Golf Performance Center (the largest gift in school history), $2.7 million to rename the campus arena in honor of former student-athlete and NBA Legend George Gervin, and a $1 million sponsorship (largest in school history).
Eastern Michigan also continues to expand opportunities for female student-athletes with the addition of women's lacrosse as the EMU's 19th varsity sport. The team begins play in the 2022-23 academic year.
Overall, Wetherbee has made 12 head coaching hires in his time at Eastern Michigan, welcoming new leaders for lacrosse (Sara Tisdale) and tennis (Steve Schram) in June 2022. He also hired volleyball head coach Darcy Dorton, men's basketball head coach Stan Heath, women's golf head coach Stephanie Jennings, gymnastics head coach Katie Minasola, swimming head coach Derek Perkins, and baseball head coach Eric Roof. Additionally, he promoted Sue Parks from head women's track & field/cross country to oversee both the men's and women's programs.
Wetherbee chairs several MAC committees, including the Volleyball Coaches, the Basketball Game Management, and the league's 75th Anniversary Celebration. Furthermore, he is the only AD in the league to have earned Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) certification from participation in conference-wide continuing educational activities.
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