The University of Akron Athletics
Baseball
Connor Faix
- Title:
- Pitching Coordinator | Assistant Recruiting Coordinator
- Email:
- cfaix@uakron.edu
- Phone:
- (330) 972-5131
Connor Faix joins the Akron coaching staff after serving as the volunteer assistant at Campbell University in The Big South Conference for the 2019-2020 season that was shortened by COVID-19. At Campbell, Faix assisted with the development of the pitching staff while coordinating camps.
Faix joined the Campbell coaching staff after wrapping up a successful season as the pitching coach at NCAA DII member Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pa.
He helped lead the Lakers to the semifinals of the 2019 NCAA DII College World Series, the program’s furthest postseason finish in school history.
The Mercyhurst pitching staff struck out 536 batters over 409.1 innings, good for an 11.8 strikeouts per nine innings pitched average, which ranked second nationally. Additionally, two of Faix’s pitchers – Tyler Garbee and Matthew Minnick – were selected in the 2019 MLB Draft, taken in the 19th and 23rd rounds, respectively. Both pitchers hurled no-hitters during the season, making Mercyhurst the only Division II team to toss multiple no-hitters during the 2019 campaign.
Along with his pitching coach duties, Faix also managed much of the Mercyhurst recruiting process for prospective athletes and prepared scouting reports of upcoming opponents.
Before Mercyhurst, Faix was an assistant coach at North Iowa Area Community College in 2018. During his time in Mason City, Iowa, he again contributed to the development of two pitchers selected in that year’s MLB Draft. He also created and monitored the Trojans’ preseason lifting program for position players.
Faix earned his first collegiate coaching stint after graduation, joining NCAA Division III Oberlin College in Ohio as the pitching coach in the Fall of 2017.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Faix is a 2017 graduate of Case Western Reserve University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s of science in finance.
Along with collegiate coaching, Faix was also a throwing coordinator at Prospect Performance Academy in Aurora, Ohio, and The Yard in Mason City, Iowa. In those roles, he created individualized throwing-related training programs for high school and college pitchers and position players. Two college arms that he worked with during the summer at PPA Ohio were drafted in the 25th and 29th rounds of the 2019 MLB Draft.
With experience coaching at all three levels of the NCAA as well as in the NJCAA and at various pitching academies, Coach Faix has coached six pitchers who were selected in the MLB Draft since 2018.
During the summer of 2018, Faix also spent time as a Colorado Rockies associate scout in the Great Plains area.
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Faix joined the Campbell coaching staff after wrapping up a successful season as the pitching coach at NCAA DII member Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pa.
He helped lead the Lakers to the semifinals of the 2019 NCAA DII College World Series, the program’s furthest postseason finish in school history.
The Mercyhurst pitching staff struck out 536 batters over 409.1 innings, good for an 11.8 strikeouts per nine innings pitched average, which ranked second nationally. Additionally, two of Faix’s pitchers – Tyler Garbee and Matthew Minnick – were selected in the 2019 MLB Draft, taken in the 19th and 23rd rounds, respectively. Both pitchers hurled no-hitters during the season, making Mercyhurst the only Division II team to toss multiple no-hitters during the 2019 campaign.
Along with his pitching coach duties, Faix also managed much of the Mercyhurst recruiting process for prospective athletes and prepared scouting reports of upcoming opponents.
Before Mercyhurst, Faix was an assistant coach at North Iowa Area Community College in 2018. During his time in Mason City, Iowa, he again contributed to the development of two pitchers selected in that year’s MLB Draft. He also created and monitored the Trojans’ preseason lifting program for position players.
Faix earned his first collegiate coaching stint after graduation, joining NCAA Division III Oberlin College in Ohio as the pitching coach in the Fall of 2017.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Faix is a 2017 graduate of Case Western Reserve University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s of science in finance.
Along with collegiate coaching, Faix was also a throwing coordinator at Prospect Performance Academy in Aurora, Ohio, and The Yard in Mason City, Iowa. In those roles, he created individualized throwing-related training programs for high school and college pitchers and position players. Two college arms that he worked with during the summer at PPA Ohio were drafted in the 25th and 29th rounds of the 2019 MLB Draft.
With experience coaching at all three levels of the NCAA as well as in the NJCAA and at various pitching academies, Coach Faix has coached six pitchers who were selected in the MLB Draft since 2018.
During the summer of 2018, Faix also spent time as a Colorado Rockies associate scout in the Great Plains area.
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