Coaches

Mike Minick

Mike Minick was hired as Coastal Georgia’s women’s softball coach prior to the start of the 2014 season. Since then he was built the softball program into a powerhouse, as he has won 250 games as he enters his 11th season at the helm.


The first two seasons of Minick's tenure were tough years as the team went 22-62 before getting back on track with a 21-23 record in 2016. Since then, the Mariners only other below .500 season was in 2018 when they finished 22-26.


The Mariners continued their success under Minick in the 2024 season when the team won 39 games, the third season in a row that they had accomplished that feat. Once again, the Mariners were atop the Sun Conference standings for the majority of the season, winning the Regular Season Championship with a 13-5 conference record. Minick once again coached the Sun Conference Player of the year in Bryce Peacock while picking up the Sun Conference Freshman of the Year with Rylee Mills. Peacock went on to be named All-American for the second consecutive season, and the Mariners once again reached the finals of the opening round of the NAIA National Tournament.


Coming off an incredible 2022 season, the Mariners doubled down in 2023 as they won 42 games including 21 conference games both of which set new school records after beating them the previous year. Minick's squad also was the first team in program history to win both the Sun Conference Regular Season Championship and Postseason Championship. For his efforts, Minick was named the 2023 Sun Conference Coach of the Year and had the 2023 Sun Conference Player and Pitcher of the Year in Bryce Peacock and Hayley Dickerson. Peacock and Dickerson were also the first softball players to be named NAIA All-Americans.


The Mariners 2022 season was one of the best in program history. They won, a then, school record 39 games, including a program record 19 conference wins. Coastal Georgia advanced to the opening round of the NAIA Tournament before losing, but on their way they broke nearly every offensive record in program history despite not being ranked at the beginning of the season.


The 2020 season, although cut short, the Mariners earned their first NAIA Coaches' Top 25 ranking in school history. They ranked 19th with a 13-4 record at the time and received 215 votes. They also earned a ninth-place rating on the NAIA Boyd's World Iterative Strength Rating which is based on the level of competition and strength of schedule of games already played.


In 2019, Minick led the Mariners to their first-ever regular-season conference title in the Sun Conference as Coastal Georgia won the league title with a 16-8 record in league games.


The Mariners struggled a bit in 2018 as they adjusted to their new conference, but those hardships did not last long as the Minick got the team right back into top 25 form the following year.


Minick led the Mariners to the previous school-record of 35 wins while making a third consecutive trip to the SSAC tournament in 2017. The team finished fourth with a 2-2 record while getting its first-ever tournament win after also finishing fourth in the league in the regular season. The Mariners received votes for the first time in the national Top 25 poll during the season.


In 2016, he led the Mariners to a second straight berth in the SSAC tournament while steering the team to a school-record 21 wins during a season in which several team and individual records were broken.


In 2015, Minick guided the Mariners to their first appearance in the Southern States Athletic Conference tournament where they would be the following two years.


Minick took the Coastal Georgia job with 15 years of coaching experience in high school and travel ball. He spent the previous three years as the varsity assistant at Glynn Academy, helping the Lady Terrors to their first-ever back-to-back state playoff appearances in the 2012 and 2013 seasons.


Prior to coaching at Glynn, Minick spent several years coaching with the local StingRays travel team which competed as part of the Glynn County Fastpitch Softball Association. Minick coached teams that won National Softball Association Georgia state championships, including his 2010 team that won the 16-and-under state title and his 2011 team that won the 18-and-under state crown. The 2010 squad also finished fifth at the National 64 Team Tournament.


Minick also served as the NSA tournament director for South Georgia.


He’s also used his softball knowledge and expertise to instruct area players, many of which have earned college scholarships after high school.


Personal


Minick is a 1975 graduate of Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro, N.C., where he played baseball for two years and golf for three years. Minick later attended Elon University while majoring in physical education.


He moved to Brunswick in 1983 due to his work in the foodservice industry and has been a Glynn County resident ever since.


He is married to wife Debbie and the couple has two daughters, Lindsey and Katelyn.