John Hendricks - Assistant Coach
John Hendricks comes to TWC after four seasons at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, NC. Hendricks main responsibilities will to assist Coach Berry and Moody with both position players and pitchers on a daily basis, supervise the strength and conditioning efforts for the entire program, and bring recruiting background to the program.
Hendricks, as Associate Head Coach at LR, primary duties included the development and oversight of the pitching staff, the coordinator of recruiting efforts, and strength and conditioning coach for the entire program.
Coach Hendricks efforts at LRU brought twelve All-Conference, three All-America, a conference Player of the year, and a conference freshman of the year. He coached a pitching staff that dropped its ERA by a run three years in a row. He was also a huge part of a record-breaking season of 35 wins and a national ranking as high as 13th in the nation in 2007.
For the summers of 2005 and ‘06 Hendricks was the Pitching Coach for the Mat-Su Miners in the Alaskan Baseball League. Overall, Hendricks has coached twenty-four players who have been drafted by professional baseball organizations, including fourteen pitchers who were undrafted before their time playing time with him.
Hendricks worked as an instructor for the Hitting Zone Baseball Academy in Winston-Salem, N.C. before he began his collegiate coaching career.
Hendricks, a 2000 graduate of Wake Forest University, was an outstanding pitcher for the Demon Deacon Baseball Team. In 1998, Hendricks was named the Most Valuable Player for the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament and an NCAA Division I First-Team All-American. Hendricks also earned All-ACC First-Team honors twice (1998-99) and led Wake Forest to back-to-back league championships and the 1999 Demon Deacon squad finished ninth in the nation.
Hendricks left Wake Forest as the school's all-time leader in wins (34), strikeouts (312) and innings pitched (409.2). Hendricks is a native of Kernersville, N.C., and a graduate of Robert B. Glenn High School. As an American Legion Pitcher, Hendricks compiled a perfect a 33-0 record. Hendricks was a 14th-round selection by the New York Mets in the 1999 Draft.
