The Washington Huskies announced this afternoon that they are hiring LSU pitching coach Jason Kelly to be the new head baseball coach. The news was first reported by Kendall Rogers of D1 Baseball.
This will be a homecoming of sorts for Kelly who was an integral part of the most successful period of UW baseball in the last decade. Kelly was Washington’s pitching coach from 2013-2019 and won D1Baseball’s national assistant coach of the year award in 2018. That season the Huskies made the College World Series for the first time in their history.