5 • Mike Roberts • Field Manager • Cotuit Kettleers

Roberts 2004 Cotuit Kettleers finished in third place, just one win behind the second place Hyannis Mets, narrowly missing a berth in the Cape Cod Baseball League Western Division playoffs.

    Regardless, Roberts' squad was formidable, playing in 22 one-run games (winning 10 of them) and leading the league in stolen bases (75). They finished at 20-23-1.

      The Former Wareham Gatemen Field Manager, Roberts led Cotuit's Western Division rivals to an outstanding 27-16-1 first place finish in 2000, falling to the Hyannis Mets in the Western Division playoffs.

    Roberts, who left the Cape League following his storied 2000 campaign when hired as the athletic director at Florida Southern College, has a long, successful baseball managing career at the collegiate level.

    From 1976 through 1998, Roberts was the head coach at the University of North Carolina. From the UNC Tarheels, Roberts went onto UNC-Asheville, where he coached two season (1999-2000). All totalled, Roberts' teams have made nine NCAA postseason appearances and two College World Series appearances.

    His teams have also had a strong history of being tops amid their ACC peers, five times capturing the ACC Regular Season Championship and four times the ACC Tournament Championship. Eight of Roberts' former players have been first round draft picks in the annual Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft. Fifteen of his former players have played in Major League Baseball.

    His lifetime collegiate coaching record is 805-450-3.

    Prior to managing Wareham to the Western Division regular season title in 2000, Roberts had led Wareham to the playoffs in 1984 after a third place finish. Each of those two seasons, Roberts' Cape League teams led the entire league in stolen bases. In 2000, Roberts' Wareham team tied the Cape League all-time single season stolen base record.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

• Mike Roberts Carolina Baseball Camps, 1976-2000
• Clinic Coordinator, Virgin Islands, 1985-1996
• Clinician at National Conference of Fellowship of Christian Athletes 1974-2002
• Chairman, Division 1 College Baseball Coaches, 1985-1989
• Teacher of health/physical education, Middle School, Cary. NC,  2001-present
• Began Doctoral Program of Sports Administration, (Univ. of New Mexico) 2003
• Mike is married to wife Nancy, daughter Angela is a CPA in Dallas, and son Brian is the second baseman for the Baltimore Orioles. (Played for Chatham A's)

© Photo Courtesy of Mike Roberts