Mark Kingston’s been around baseball for more than 30 years and has been a head coach since 2010, but when he was named head coach at South Carolina last summer, he not only was tasked with turning around one of the sport’s most storied programs, he also took on a role as a prominent voice in the college baseball community.
Simply by being the coach of the Gamecocks, Kingston knew he could be influential beyond Founders Park.
“One of my roles as the coach at South Carolina ... is to make sure I’m overseeing one of the top programs in the country for our fans to be very happy about, but also as the head coach at South Carolina, you can have a positive impact in a lot of different areas,” Kingston told The State.