Justin Seely - Baseball Coach - Texas A&M Athletics

Justin Seely

Title:
Assistant Coach
E-Mail:
JSeely@athletics.tamu.edu

Justin Seely has served 11 seasons with Texas A&M Baseball as an assistant coach for Rob Childress.

THE SEELY FILE
Hometown	Nacogdoches, Texas
Wife	Tara
Children	Slade, Sydney
EDUCATION
University of Nebraska, 2003 (Bachelor's in History)
COACHING EXPERIENCE
2010-	Texas A&M (Assistant Coach)
2009	Texas A&M (Volunteer Assistant Coach)
2008	Texarkana College (Assistant Coach)
2006-07	University of Nebraska (Volunteer Assistant Coach)
2004-05	Paris Junior College (Assistant Coach)
2003	Parkville (Mo.) Sluggers (Head Coac

During his tenure, the Aggies have played in two College World Series along with winning four conference championships and making four Super Regionals. Over the span, the Maroon & White are averaging 41.7 wins per season and have played in all 11 NCAA Tournaments.

Seely was named assistant coach in 2010 after spending the 2009 season as the Aggies’ volunteer assistant coach. He serves as the recruiting coordinator and works with the outfielders and hitters. Regarded as one of the top recruiting coordinators in the nation. In 2016, D1baseball.com ranked Seely eighth nationally among all recruiting coordinators and he received the second most first-place votes in the survey. Every one of Seely’s recruiting classes has been ranked in the Top 25, including five Top 10 classes.

The Aggies have also finished in the top 10 in the national polls three of the last five years.

In all 11 of his years with the program, Texas A&M has made trips to the NCAA Tournament while claiming three Big 12 titles, one SEC Tournament crown and advancing to the 2011 & 2017 College World Series. The 2017 trip marked Seely’s fourth venture to the CWS, including two as a player.

Seely has coached 11 Major Leaguers in his 13 year Division I coaching career. In that same span, he has signed and developed five first-round picks. In his time at Texas A&M alone, the Aggies have been at the tops of college baseball sending 10 players to the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team. Since 2012, the Aggies have had the second-most players selected in the MLB Draft among all NCAA programs with 52.

In 2019, Braden Shewmake became Texas A&M’s 15^th MLB Draft first rounder and the fifth-highest selection in school annals.

Texas A&M’s offense ranked 11th in triples (21) and 20th in hits (624) in 2018.

In 2017, the Aggies made a College World Series appearance, finishing the season with 41-23 mark. The 2017 campaign saw the rise of All-America, National Freshman of the Year and SEC Freshman of the Year Shewmake, who batted .328 with 18 doubles, 11 home runs and 69 RBI.

In 2016, the talent that Seely has recruited to College Station resulted in a program-high 13 players selected in the MLB Draft with 12 players signing pro contracts.

The Aggies claimed their first-ever SEC Tournament crown in 2016, advancing to their 10th consecutive NCAA Championship with a 49-16 mark and a 20-10 record in league play. The Texas A&M offense mashed to the tune of a .311 batting average and 7.24 runs per game, led by Boomer White who was named SEC Player of the Year.

In 2015, Seely helped mentor an offense that saw a resurgence, improving the batting average from .286 in 2014 to .299 in 2015. The Aggies’ runs per game also improved from 5.31 in 2014 to 6.63 in 2015. The Maroon & White started the season with an SEC-record 24-game win streak and finished the year with a 50-14 record and earned an NCAA regional title.

In 2014, Seely helped tutor Freshman All-American Nick Banks who earned All-SEC Second Team recognition and earned a spot on the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team. The Aggies outfielders committed just eight errors on the season and A&M ranked fourth in the SEC in batting.

In the Aggies’ first season in the SEC, under Seely’s guidance, the Aggies’ outfielders recorded 21 outfield assists while committing just 10 errors. Krey Bratsen earned All-SEC recognition as a junior.

In 2012, Seely’s outfield recorded eight assists while committing just eight errors. Tyler Naquin become the eighth A&M player to earn All-America accolades in multiple seasons. He was selected by the Cleveland Indians with the 15th overall pick in the first round.

The Aggie outfielders enjoyed a banner year in 2011 under Seely’s tutelage, as Naquin earned first team All-America and Big 12 Player of the Year accolades while Bratsen, a rookie centerfielder, was selected as a Freshman All-American.

He came to Texas A&M after spending 2008 as an assistant coach at Texarkana College. Under current Aggie assistant Will Bolt, Seely was the recruiting coordinator and hitting coach. The Bulldogs led the league in multiple categories and finished third or better in hits, doubles, slugging percentage, on-base percentage and home runs. Ten NCAA Division I signees were produced out of his first and only signing class at Texarkana.

A starter on Nebraska’s first two College World Series teams, Seely spent the 2006 and 2007 seasons as a volunteer assistant at his alma mater. His extensive work with the Husker outfielders paid dividends in 2006, as three earned All-Big 12 honors.

Seely spent the two seasons prior to Nebraska as an assistant coach at Paris (Texas) Junior College for Head Coach Deron Clark. At Paris JC, he worked with the position players, helped run the team’s offense and served as the program’s recruiting coordinator. In 2005, Paris had 11 players sign National Letters-of-Intent. Seely’s first full recruiting class helped produce the school’s most successful season in 50 years.

Seely also coached the Parkville (Mo.) Sluggers in 2003 of the M.I.N.K. League. For two summers, He coached the 17 and 18-year-old teams for Sam Carpenter’s Dallas Mustangs, one of the top Connie Mack programs in the country.

He served as the Huskers’ starting outfielder and designated hitter during his two years in the program, making 87 starts, hitting .355 with 11 home runs and 65 RBI at NU. His best season came in 2002, when he hit .320 with 19 doubles, seven home runs and 37 RBI in helping the Huskers return to the College World Series. Seely was best known for his grand slam in the decisive third game of the Super Regional against Richmond, a blast that sealed Nebraska’s second straight trip to Omaha.

A native of Nacogdoches, Texas, Seely began his collegiate career at Northeast Texas Community College, where he was a two-year starter.

Seely received his undergraduate degree in history from the University of Nebraska in 2003. He and his wife Tara have a son, Slade, and a daughter, Sydney.

(June, 2019)