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Entering his fourth season as Cal’s third base and hitting coach is Ron Witmeyer, a former standout player at Stanford and a member of the Oakland A's. In 2001, Witmeyer joined up with his former Cardinal teammate and current Golden Bear head coach, David Esquer, and in his first season helped Cal to a NCAA Regional appearance in Baton Rogue, Louisiana.
Behind Witmeyer's tutelage, the Bears had the top two hitters in the Pac-10 in 2002, with John Baker and Conor Jackson producing batting averages of .383 and .382, respectively. Last season, Jackson improved his batting average to .388 and was a first round draft pick of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Witmeyer came to Cal after a four-year stint as head baseball coach at City College of San Francisco from 1997-2000. His best season at CCSF was in 1999 when the Rams went 23-18. While at the San Francisco junior college, Witmeyer had one player drafted and 21 players go on to play baseball at four-year schools. Prior to CCSF, Witmeyer and Esquer were both members of the Stanford coaching staff in 1996.
A three-year letterman at first base for the Cardinal, Witmeyer played at Stanford from 1986-88, helping the Cardinal to back-to-back College World Series titles in 1987 and 1988. Esquer and Witmeyer were teammates on Stanford's 1987 squad, and then in 1988 Witmeyer was both an All-NCAA Regional and an All-College World Series selection. He went on to play six years in the Oakland A's organization, earning California League All-Star accolades in 1990 and was called up to the major leagues in 1991.
Witmeyer earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Stanford in 1989 and went on to earn a master's degree in health, physical education and recreation from Saint Mary's in 1999. He and his wife, Marianne, reside in Piedmont with sons Luke (six), Clay (four) and Tommy, born June 30, 2003.
