Coaches

Mike Minick

Mike Minick was hired as Coastal Georgia’s women’s softball coach prior to the start of the 2014 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.


In 2015, Minick guided the Mariners to their first appearance in the Southern States Athletic Conference tournament.


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 2017, he led the Mariners to a school-record 35 wins while making a third consecutive trip to the SSAC tournament. 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.

Prior to Coastal Georgia


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.