Georgia Gwinnett College Athletics

Evan Wise joined the Georgia Gwinnett College baseball coaching staff as pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for the 2022 season.

Wise comes to GGC from Wake Forest University (North Carolina), where he was the Pitching Lab Coordinator for the NCAA Division I program within the Atlantic Coast Conference. His responsibilities included collecting and analyzing biomechanical data, and using it to prepare throwing plans for Wake Forest's pitchers. 

During his time with the Demon Deacons Evan assisted in the development of first-round draft picks Jared Shuster and Ryan Cusick, both with the Atlanta Braves. 

Before Wake Forest, Wise was the summer director of pitching at 108 Performance Academy in Tustin, California. He specialized on teaching pitchers on kinematics and pitch metrics.

In 2018 Wise was an area scouting supervisor for Southern California within the New York Mets organization.  

Before that Wise was pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for four seasons at Lenoir Rhyne University (North Carolina). His pitching staff placed fifth nationally in strikeouts per nine innings in 2017 and had the league's pitcher of the year. He helped six pitchers sign professional contracts with Major League Baseball organizations.

Wise also was an assistant coach at University of South Carolina-Sumter for four seasons (2010-14). During one season the team tallied a 2.68 earned run average, best in program history. He also helped mentor 2012 Region X Pitcher of the Year and All-American Tyler Smith.

From 2014-17 Wise was head coach with the Gastonia Grizzlies of the Coastal Plain League. The 2017 team captured the collegiate summer league title. Before that, he was head coach with the Rockbridge Rapids of the Valley Baseball League in 2012 and the Morganton Aggies of the Southern Collegiate Baseball League in 2011.

Wise earned a bachelor's degree in history from Lenoir Rhyne in 2009.