Mike Gaski

Mike Gaski was elected to his first term as President of USA Baseball on January 7, 2001, was re-elected to the position on Jan. 10, 2005, and then again in January 2009. He was the head baseball coach UNC-Greensboro since its inception in 1991, and in those 22 seasons accumulated over 650 wins. Gaski began coaching at the collegiate level in 1979 as an assistant at Cleveland State and spent one season with the Vikings. After his tenure with Cleveland State, Gaski headed to Ohio State in 1980. There, he coached the pitchers and catchers. Gaski helped the Buckeyes to back-to-back record-setting seasons and their first NCAA appearance in more than fifteen years. From Ohio State, Gaski went to Florida Southern to assume the position of assistant head coach with the Moccasins. During his four-year stint (1983-87), the team made four consecutive NCAA appearances, finished second in the nation in 1984 and claimed the Division II National Championship in 1985. Gaski left collegiate coaching in 1988 to assume the position of Executive Director of the Spanish Olympic Program in preparation for the Games of the 25th Olympiad in Barcelona, Spain. n 1991, he became the team leader of the U.S. squad in the Pan American Games in Cuba and joined the 1992 USA Olympic Baseball coaching staff in a similar role. In 1993, Gaski was elected treasurer of the Pan American Baseball Confederation that governs international baseball throughout the Americas. Gaski returned to the Olympics in 1996, serving this time on the USOC International Games Prep Committee for the Atlanta Games. In 1998, Gaski joined Team USA as an assistant coach on the National Team that played in the IBA World Championships. In March of 2001, Gaski was elected by the International Baseball Federation to serve on the technical committee that oversees all international competition, including the World Championships and the Athens Olympic Games in 2004. In February 2006, Gaski was elected technical commissioner by the International Baseball Federation's Executive Committee in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Gaski earned a bachelor's degree in English from Detroit in 1973, a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UNCG in 1977 and a Master of Arts in English from Ohio State in 1982.