Shawn Summe

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Seasons

• 2011-12 - Head Coach
• 2010-11 - Head Coach
• 2009-10 - Head Coach

Shawn Summe enters his third year as head men's baseball coach of the Gyrenes.

Summe spent seven years as the assistant baseball coach at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During two of those years Summe was the director of athletic fundraising.

Summe spent two seasons as head baseball coach and admission counselor at Judson College in Elgin, Ill. He inherited a program at Judson that won only 11 games in 2000 and 26 in the four years before his arrival. In his two years there, Summe won 38 games, including a school-record 21 in 2002. During the 2002 season, the Eagles set 12 offensive records before bowing out in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference title game. Summe coached the school's first NAIA All-American in baseball and served as a national rater for the NAIA baseball committee.

Prior to coaching at Judson, Summe served as an assistant baseball coach at Manchester College. During his two-year stay at the NCAA Division III institution, the Spartans captured the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship and had two players sign professional contracts. Summe served as the recruiting coordinator and pitching coach at Manchester and helped recruit the college’s first-ever, first team NCAA Division III All-American.

Summe was a four-year letter winner at Bethel College in Mishawaka, Ind. He played on record-setting teams for wins in a season (43) and wins over a four-year period (157). The Pilots captured the Mid-Central Conference Championship three of the four seasons that Summe played, and Bethel advanced to the NAIA regional championship game his senior season.

Summe, graduated from Bethel in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. He has a master's degree in business administration from Ashford University. Coach Summe is married to his wife Karla and they have a daughter Lyla (1). They are members of St. Anns Catholic Church.