The UIC Flames baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University of Illinois at Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The team is a member of the Missouri Valley Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at Les Miller Field at Curtis Granderson Stadium in Chicago, Illinois. The Flames are coached by Sean McDermott.
UIC in the NCAA Tournament 2003 0–2 Palo Alto Regional 2005 0–2 Lincoln Regional 2007 1–2 Long Beach Regional 2008 1–2 College Station Regional 2017 0–2 Hattiesburg Regional 2019 0–2 Louisville Regional 2026 0–2 Atlanta Regional 2–14
Conference membership history 1949–1980: Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference 1981–1983: Independent 1984–1994: Mid Continent Conference 1995–2022: Horizon League 2023–present: Missouri Valley Conference
Les Miller Field at Curtis Granderson Stadium
Les Miller Field at Curtis Granderson Stadium is a baseball stadium on the UIC campus in Chicago, Illinois that seats 1,000 spectators and is named for Les Miller, UIC head baseball coach from 1949 to 1979, and Curtis Granderson, an alumnus of the program. During Miller's tenure, the program won over 500 games. Granderson was named conference player of the year with the Flames in 2002 and later played in Major League Baseball.
Head coaches 1949–1979 Les Miller 31 509–363–5 1980–1982 Dick Ward 3 47–102 1983–1998 Dean Refakes 16 376–467–3 1999–2021 Mike Dee 23 690–522–1 2022–present Sean McDermott 3 85–70
Awards and honors
Over their 15 seasons in the Horizon League, 61 different Flames have been named to the all-conference first-team.
Horizon League Player of the Year
YearPositionName2002OFCurtis Granderson2013OFChuck Peters2015SSJeff Boehm2017CRob Calabrese
Horizon League Pitcher of the Year
YearName1994Jon Piazza1997Jason Henry2007Zach Peterson2009Adam Worthington2015Jake Dahlberg2017Jake Dahlberg2018Ryan Campbell2019Jacob Key
Horizon League Relief Pitcher of the Year
YearName2007David Cales2008Adam Worthington2016Trevor Lane2017Alex Padilla2018Charlie Cerny2019Alex Padilla
Horizon League Coach of the Year
YearName1990Dean Refakes1993Dean Refakes1999Mike Dee2000Mike Dee2002Mike Dee2003Mike Dee2005Mike Dee2006Mike Dee2007Mike Dee2008Mike Dee2015Mike Dee2017Mike Dee
See also List of NCAA Division I baseball programs
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