Eric Hutting joined the Loyola Marymount University Lions baseball coaching staff in the summer of 2021 as a volunteer assistant coach after serving as an assistant coach for Barry University. He will work with Lions catchers and assist with LMU hitters during the 2022 campaign.
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Prior to Barry, Hutting was an assistant coach at Cal State San Marcos in 2020, during the abbreviated spring season. Hutting also spent time at Regis University in Denver, Colo., where he was the assistant coach/pitching coach in 2019.
Hutting spent two seasons as an assistant in the Orange Empire Conference. In 2018, he took over pitching coach duties for Golden West College, and in 2017, he served as the first base and hitting coach at Cypress College.
In 2017 and 2018, Hutting served as the pitching coach for the Anchorage Bucs in the Alaska Baseball League, where they led the league with a 2.44 ERA and a 1.13 WHIP. In 44 games, they finished first (25-19) with 11 shutouts and 10 saves.
A four-year catcher at Long Beach State, Hutting graduated with a bachelor's degree in communication studies in 2016. He started 140 games behind the plate for the Dirtbags and threw out 39 percent of would-be base stealers. He helped LBSU make two NCAA Regional appearances in 2014 and 2016 and was named an Academic All-Star in 2013 and 2014. He then went on to earn his master's degree in physical education from Azusa Pacific in 2017.Â
A native of Rancho Santa Margarita, Hutting attended Tesoro High School and was a four-year letter winner in baseball. He earned All-South Coast League honors in 2011 and 2012 and was a member of the Academic Honor Roll in 2009 and 2010.
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