Elton Pollock

Head Baseball Coach

 epollock@presby.edu

Elton Pollock, a 1995 graduate of Presbyterian College, begins his second season as head coach of the Blue Hose baseball program. He is the third head coach in the modern day history of the Blue Hose baseball program since it was restarted prior to the 1988 season.

Pollock will look to blend a veteran group of returning upperclassmen with a talented recruiting class to bounce back from last spring’s below .500 record.

In his first season, Pollock coached a young team to a record of 17 wins against 40 losses that included a 6-15 mark in the South Atlantic Conference regular season. The Blue Hose made great strides down the stretch, including in the 2005 Food Lion SAC Tournament. After losing to top seed Catawba College, PC responded by eliminating Mars Hill College and Newberry College to advance to the semifinals of the elimination bracket.

Pollock had spent the previous two seasons as an assistant coach with the Blue Hose baseball program, including the 2004 campaign as a volunteer assistant coach. He is also the former owner of Diamond League, Inc. (professional indoor training center) in Laurens, S.C.

Pollock, a former two-sport standout at Presbyterian College from 1992-95, returned to his alma mater in 2002 after spending seven years in the business world, most recently with WorldCom in Cary, N.C. Prior to his stint at WorldCom, he worked with Delta Airlines and was a loan officer at Allison Mortgage and Palmetto Funding Group.

Pollock earned a bachelor of science degree in Sociology with a minor in Computer Science from Presbyterian College in 1995. During his time at PC, he was a three-year letterwinner with the football team and a four-year letterwinner with the baseball team. Pollock finished an impressive baseball career at PC as the program’s career leader in homeruns (34), while ranking second in slugging percentage (.616) and triples (11), third in total bases (382), tied for fourth in runs scored (169), and fifth in batting average (.348).

Following graduation, Pollock was drafted in the 15th round of the 1995 Major League Baseball Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates. He spent three years in their minor league system before retiring in 1997.

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