Meet The Coach
Walter Williams
Issue date: 2/6/08 Section: Sports
Recently I had the opportunity to sit down for an interview with newly hired Frostburg State University Baseball coach Guy Robertson. Coach Robertson comes to Frostburg after a stop at NCAA Division 1 Coppin State University, where he was named MEAC Coach of the year in 2005, and most recently serving as Recruiting Director for the Baseball Factory in Columbia, Maryland. But, without further adieu here's the interview:
WW: How has your personal experience at Frostburg been since you were hired in September?
GR: The experience here has been tremendous. I couldn't ask for more. Everyone has been very helpful and kind in helping me and my family make the transition from Owings Mills to Frostburg.
WW: You are no stranger to coaching as in your last head coaching job at Division 1 Coppin State University you amassed a number of school records and awards. You were named the 2005 MEAC coach of the year and you are the all time leader in winning percentage there. All of this seemed to be in spite of the challenges you must have faced while there with equipment and having a "home' field located about 20 miles from campus. In fact an April 27, 2007 article from The Examiner quoted the Athletic Director there, Dr. Mary Wanza as saying, "I really don't know much about baseball." How do you feel these challenges have helped prepare you for the job here at Frostburg State?
GR: Certainly there is so much more here to offer student athletes from a baseball experience perspective with the resources here, like having an on campus field. That is just something we just didn't have at Coppin, in fact it was a struggle to get anything resembling a baseball program going there. It's just so much easier to work with the people here, especially after coming from a place that had nothing to a place that has everything in terms of things you might overlook or take for granted when trying to run a program.
WW: After you resigned at Coppin State, you had to deal with criticism on how you left there. How would you respond to those critics?
WW: How has your personal experience at Frostburg been since you were hired in September?
GR: The experience here has been tremendous. I couldn't ask for more. Everyone has been very helpful and kind in helping me and my family make the transition from Owings Mills to Frostburg.
WW: You are no stranger to coaching as in your last head coaching job at Division 1 Coppin State University you amassed a number of school records and awards. You were named the 2005 MEAC coach of the year and you are the all time leader in winning percentage there. All of this seemed to be in spite of the challenges you must have faced while there with equipment and having a "home' field located about 20 miles from campus. In fact an April 27, 2007 article from The Examiner quoted the Athletic Director there, Dr. Mary Wanza as saying, "I really don't know much about baseball." How do you feel these challenges have helped prepare you for the job here at Frostburg State?
GR: Certainly there is so much more here to offer student athletes from a baseball experience perspective with the resources here, like having an on campus field. That is just something we just didn't have at Coppin, in fact it was a struggle to get anything resembling a baseball program going there. It's just so much easier to work with the people here, especially after coming from a place that had nothing to a place that has everything in terms of things you might overlook or take for granted when trying to run a program.
WW: After you resigned at Coppin State, you had to deal with criticism on how you left there. How would you respond to those critics?
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