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2013 Warrior Baseball
Coaches
 Head
Coach Jeremiah Robbins
Jeremiah Robbins is the
man to lead the
Lewis-Clark State
College baseball team
into its next era.
Robbins was hired on
June 22, 2012, to
replace Warrior athletic
director Gary Picone,
who guided the team for
two seasons after the
retirement of legendary
coach Ed Cheff in
September 2010.
Robbins comes to the
Warriors after seven
seasons as head coach
with Western Oregon. He
compiled a 252-109
record during his time
with the Wolves,
including a 170-34
record in the Great
Northwest Athletic
Conference (NCAA D-II).
“Jeremiah Robbins is
exactly the kind of
person the LC program
needs going forward,”
said Picone at Robbins’
introductory news
conference. “He has
established a strong
reputation for his
coaching ability in the
college baseball
community, and he has a
proven record of
excellent leadership.”
Robbins takes the helm
of one of the premier
teams in the NAIA and
one of the most
successful programs in
all of college baseball.
In the last 37 years,
the Warriors have built
a record of 1,785-461
while claiming 16
national championships.
“I’m truly honored, and
I’d like to thank
President Fernandez and
Gary Picone for putting
their trust in me to
lead this program,” said
Robbins. “Obviously,
when you’re in the
Northwest and you’re a
young coach coming up
you try to model things
after Lewis-Clark State.
It is one of the top
programs not only in the
Northwest but in the
United States, and to be
selected as the leader
of the program is the
highest honor I could
ever achieve. I know
it’s a cliché, but it’s
definitely a dream come
true.”
Robbins led the Wolves
to seven straight GNAC
titles, and received
seven conference Coach
of the Year awards in
the process. In 2006 and
2012, he was named the
National Collegiate
Baseball Writers
Association West Region
Coach of the Year.
“We are indeed fortunate
for someone as
experienced and talented
as Jeremiah Robbins to
serve as LCSC head
baseball coach,”
Fernandez said. “We look
forward to Coach Robbins
continuing the Warrior
tradition of excellence
and we welcome him and
his family to Lewiston
and Lewis-Clark State
College.”
Robbins' 2012 squad won
the school's 12th
consecutive conference
title with a 29-3 record
in the GNAC, and earned
their fifth bid to the
NCAA West regional
tournament under
Robbins' guidance. In
2006, his first season
at the helm, the Wolves
won the GNAC title and
were the No. 1 seed and
host of the NCAA
Division II West Region
Tournament.
Under Robbins'
leadership Western
Oregon had
five
student-athletes drafted
in the Major League
Baseball Amateur Draft.
The Wolves also took
home the last three GNAC
Player of the Year
honors and the last four
Pitcher of the Year
awards.
Robbins said one of the
things that interests
him most about coaching
at LCSC is the support
the program receives
from the community.
“We’ve been to Lewiston
numerous times over the
last seven years and all
you see is LC baseball
everywhere. There’s
truly a passion for the
game there, and a
passion to do it right.”
A native of Winston,
Ore., Robbins played
baseball at Douglas High
School before playing
two seasons at College
of the Redwoods and one
at Western Oregon. He
earned all-conference
honors as a catcher with
the Wolves in 1998.
Prior to coaching at
Western Oregon he served
two seasons as head
coach at Douglas where
his teams won
back-to-back Far West
League championships and
he was honored with two
league Coach of the Year
titles.
Robbins, who earned a
Bachelor’s degree from
Eastern Oregon
University, is joined in
Lewiston by his wife,
Mareena, and his sons,
Luke and Cal.
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 Assistant
Coach Allen Balmer
A former Avista NAIA World Series MVP and a Lewiston native,
Allen Balmer is entering his fourth
season as an assistant
coach at Lewis-Clark State College. He works primarily with
position players and is instrumental in both infielder and
hitter instruction. Balmer played four seasons with the
Warriors during 2002-06 and enjoyed much success. He started
all four seasons at third base and helped the Warriors
capture two national titles, including the championship in
the 50th annual Avista NAIA World Series at Lewiston during
his senior year in 2006. He earned the tournament’s MVP
award after smacking 12 hits, scoring six runs, and driving
in seven during a five-game stretch.
Overall at LCSC, Allen recorded
245 hits, established a batting average of .341, and
averaged less than 12 errors a season. During his senior
year, he hit .377 with a team-leading seven home runs during
the regular season. Balmer is a second generation
Warrior baseball player as well. His father, Gary, who also
works at LCSC, was a standout for the Warriors in the early
1980s. Balmer and his wife, former
LCSC volleyball player Marie (Lauder) Balmer, have two
children, Brody and Avery Marie.
 Assistant
Coach Bill Stevenson
Bill Stevenson played for
Lewis-Clark State as a catcher in 1984-1985 and was a part
of the program’s first two national championship titles. In
1985, he hit .376 with 13 home runs and 50 runs batted in to
earn NAIA All-American honors. He was selected in the 25th
round of the 1985 draft by the San Diego Padres and played
five seasons in the Minor Leagues. He works primarily with
LCSC’s catchers. Stevenson and his wife, Lisa, reside in
Lewiston and have three children.
 Assistant Coach Justin Fuller
Justin Fuller enters his
second season as a coach with the Warriors. A former
All-American second baseman at LCSC, Fuller works
primarily with infielders and hitters. Fuller, a middle
infielder and four-year starter from 2003-2006, had a .349
career batting average with the Warriors. The native of
Juneau, Alaska, was a part of two NAIA World Series titles,
one as a freshman and one as a senior. He was selected by
the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 11th round of the 2006 draft.
He spent five years in the Minor Leagues, three with the
Dodgers and two with the White Sox. Fuller was traded to the
White Sox in 2009 as part of the deal that sent Jim Thome
from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Assistant Coach Mike Madrid
Mike Madrid is back on the
Warrior coaching staff where he will again work primarily
with hitters and infielders. Madrid, who played for the
Warriors from 2001-02 and served as a coach from 2006-07,
has been a part of three Lewis-Clark State national titles,
one as a player in 2000, and two during his previous
coaching stint. During his senior year, he earned the team's
Gold Glove Award in and also hit .328 with 10 homeruns to
help LCSC to its 12th World Series title. He then signed a
free-agent contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates and in 2003
helped a Pirates' minor league team, the Williamsport
Crosscutters, capture the New York
Penn League championship and made the all-star team. From
2004-06, he played for
an independent team in the Frontier League, the River City
Rascals, and compiled three-year totals of 47 home runs, 215
RBI, and a .305 batting average. In 2008, he was inducted
into the River City All-Diamond Team. From 2007-10,
Madrid served as the head coach at Kendrick High School. He
earned a bachelors degree in Kinesiology from LCSC.
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