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RYAN GAINES
Coordinator of Baseball Operations | Sixth Year Ryan Gaines enters his sixth season as OU baseball’s coordinator of baseball operations in 2009. Gaines completed his first season on the staff in 2006 after returning to OU on August 1, 2005. Gaines is responsible for the day-to-day operations off the fi eld, including team travel, serving as a liaison with the training room, equipment room, media relations, strength and conditioning, athletics administration and Home Run Club. He is also the camp director for the Oklahoma Baseball Camp. The Harrah, Okla., native is no stranger to working for the OU Athletics Department or under Sunny Golloway. Gaines worked as a student trainer for the University of Oklahoma baseball and football teams from the fall of 1991 to spring of 1995. In addition, he was the team trainer for the Peninsula Oilers baseball team (coached by Golloway) in Kenai, Alaska, for three years, including the 1993 and 1994 seasons when the Oilers won back-to-back NBC World Series championships. In 1996, he teamed up with Golloway at Oral Roberts University where he served as the baseball team’s administrative assistant in 1996 and 1997. Prior to his stint in Norman, he worked in the sporting goods industry as a successful team salesman from August of 1997 to July of 2005. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Gaines received his bachelor’s degree in health and sports science in 1996. Gaines and his wife, Kate, who also works for the athletics department as an administrative assistant for women’s basketball, have two children, Hannah (10) and Gabe (6).
RUSSELL RALEY Volunteer Assistant | Fourth Year
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Former Sooner Russell Raley (2003-2006) returns for his fourth season at Oklahoma as a volunteer coach for the 2011 season. The Uvalde, Texas, native coaches first base and works with the infielders and outfielders and assists with the Sooner hitters. While he led OU to three NCAA tournaments, including the program’s first Super Regional in 2006, Raley helped the Sooners make the program’s 10th College World Series appearance as a coach in 2010. OU’s last appearance in Omaha came in 1995. The coach recently completed his second successful stint as the head coach of the Mat-Su Miners of the Alaska Baseball League last summer. Raley’s squad won the ABL Championship for the second straight year as he was again named the league’s coach of the year. Raley, a four-year starter and three-time All-Big 12 honoree at second base, completed his eligibility at Oklahoma in 2006 and later graduated in May of 2007 As a senior, he helped lead the Sooners to a regional title and the program’s first Super Regional appearance in 2006. Raley finished his Sooner career with 237 hits in 208 games played, marks that both rank in the top 10 all-time at OU. He was selected in the 21st round of the MLB Draft in 2006 by the New York Yankees. After a stellar first season with the Staten Island Yankees (Class A), Raley was called up to Class AA with the Trenton Thunder in 2007.
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