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Kris Doorey, Head Coach
The 2009 season will mark the eighth year that the Plattsburgh State baseball program will be in the hands of head coach Kris Doorey, who was chosen to resurrect the sport in 2002 after a 26-year hiatus at the College. The winningest coach in school history with 121 victories, Doorey has built the Cardinals from club status to one of the top NCAA Division III teams in the New York Region.
Doorey has produced 25 all-State University of New York Athletic Conference selections, 12 all-region picks and two-time Jewish Sports Review All-American Matt Kahan over the last six years. In addition, Plattsburgh has advanced to the postseason every year since 2003.
During the 2008 campaign, Kyle Kowalowski and Erik Schwind became the first set of Cardinal teammates to be named ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District in the same season. For Kowalowski, it was his second appearance on the team and he's the only Cardinal ever to advance to the national ballot.
In 2007, Plattsburgh (25-15 overall) went 9-5 in SUNYAC games and a second-place tie for its highest finish ever in the conference. The Cardinals beat two nationally-ranked opponents in No. 3 Cortland and No. 29 Brockport.
The 2006 Cardinals had their best season by going 27-14 (10-4 in the SUNYAC) while setting school
records for victories, winning percentage of .659 (based on a 15-game schedule) and conference wins. Five players--Jon Dumas, Dan Hoffman, Dave Waldron, Todd Hughes and Zack Welch--received preseason All-America accolades by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. Plattsburgh tied a school record when it was regionally ranked No. 5 by the American Baseball Coaches' Association poll.
In 2005, the Cardinals went 25-13 overall for their first winning season since 1965, including an 8-6 conference record, earning SUNYAC and Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III tournament bids. Nine players scored all-SUNYAC honors and three were named all-region, both school records.
In just Doorey's second season, Plattsburgh had a 13-19 mark, was 7-7 playing its first full SUNYAC schedule and made the conference tournament for the first time. Doorey's peers took notice of him building respectability in a fledging program and voted him the 2003 SUNYAC Coach of the Year.
Doorey came to Plattsburgh after a four-year stint as assistant and then head coach at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill. After helping the Highlanders to a 30-17 record in 1998 when he was an assistant, he was promoted to the top spot in 1999 and became one of the youngest head coaches in the nation at the time. He compiled a 62-61-1 ledger from 1999 to 2001.
In his first season, Doorey's Highlanders achieved a 25-18 mark, including a 9-5 record in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The following year, they finished 23-23 but were ranked as high as third in the NCAA Division III national poll after taking 15 of the first 22 games and defeating four preseason-Top 10 teams. All told, he mentored four all-region, 15 all-SLIAC and seven academic all-conference players at MacMurray.
Doorey started his career as an assistant coach at the University of Stony Brook, his alma mater, from 1995 to 1997. During that time, the Seawolves earned the school's first-ever NCAA Division III playoff bid in 1995 and a trip to the ECAC Division II playoffs the following year.
Doorey has a 183-180-1 (.504) career coaching record that covers 10 NCAA seasons, including a 121-119 (.504) mark with the Cardinals. He recorded his 100th win with the Cardinals on April 26, 2007, against No. 3 Cortland for the program's best victory over an opponent rated that high in the national rankings.
A native of Peru, N.Y., Doorey is a 1996 Stony Brook graduate with a bachelor of arts degree in history. He has been a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association since 1998, and conducts the North Country Baseball Camp for grades 1-11.
Doorey and his wife Michelle were married in August 2003. The couple has a son, Brady (4), and daughter Ava (1).
Mike Bergman, Pitching Coach
Mike Bergman enters his fourth year as the lead assistant on the Plattsburgh State baseball coaching staff in 2009, charged with developing pitchers and being involved with all aspects of the program.
Bergman developed sophomore Matt Kelley into one of the top pitchers in the 2007 State University of New York Athletic Conference campaign, as Kelley was first-team all-SUNYAC during his first year in the conference.
In 2006, the Cardinals ranked third in SUNYAC team earned-run average at 3.73, tying a school record since the sport was reinstated in 2002. Under Bergman's tutelage, RHP Dan Hoffman earned first-team all-SUNYAC and second-team all-region accolades, and Hoffman along with Matt Dahlin attained seven victories to tie a school single-season record.
A four-year player from 2002-05, Bergman's name can be found throughout the school's career pitching record book: T-2nd with 40 appearances, T-3rd with 13 victories, 3rd with 167 innings, 5th with 101 strikeouts and 6th in winning percentage.
A native of Plattsburgh, N.Y., Bergman was a standout performer at Plattsburgh High School where he garnered all-conference honors and helped the Hornets to the 2000 New York Class B state baseball semifinals.
Bergman graduated from Plattsburgh State in 2005 with a bachelor of science degree in business.
Contact Information
For more information about Baseball at Plattsburgh State, please contact:
Coach Kris Doorey
Phone: (518) 564-4136
E-mail: dooreykm@plattsburgh.edu