NORMAL, Ill. – Illinois State baseball has added R.D. Spiehs as an assistant coach, the team announced Monday. Spiehs will primarily serve as the team's pitching coach.
Spiehs, who was the pitching coach at Arkansas Little-Rock for three seasons most recently, pitched for seven years professionally in the San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, and Seattle Mariners organizations before returning to Nebraska, his alma mater, in 2008 to begin his coaching career.
He posted an impressive 21-6 record on the mound for the Cornhuskers in his three years in Lincoln.
After earning his degree in communications from UNL in 2009, Spiehs spent 2009-2011 as an assistant coach at Grayson County College in Texas prior to a seven-year stint at Northern Colorado.