Matt Siegel Position: Assistant Coach Experience: 1st Year Alma Mater: Florida (2000)

Assistant coach Matt Siegel joined the Arizona baseball program in August of 2011. At Arizona, he will work with the UA hitters, infielders and serve as the third base coach during games.

Siegel comes to Arizona with a successful career as a collegiate player and coach. His collegiate coaching career began at UNLV in 2003. His responsibilities as a coach at UNLV included coaching the infielders and assisting with the hitters. In 2003, under his direction, the Rebels set a school mark with a .970 fielding percentage.

Siegel went on to spend three seasons as an assistant coach at Texas Christian University. Siegel's duties at TCU included instructing the hitters and working with the offense on base running. He served as the team's third base coach.

The TCU offense showed immediate improvement under the tutelage of Siegel. The 2004 club had a .294 batting average and swiped 63 bags. The Frogs also produced 427 runs in 2004, the most since 1999.

TCU saw even more offensive production in 2005 under Siegel's tutelage. TCU finished the season with a .310 batting average, the highest since the 1997 season. The 454 runs scored were the most since 1996. A year later, the Frogs again bettered their batting average, hitting .311 in 2006.

He has also served as an assistant coach in the Cape Cod Baseball League, where he coached the Cotuit Kettlers in 2002. The next summer, Siegel served as the head coach of the Arlington Senators, a collegiate summer league in Northern Virginia.

Siegel was a four-year starter as an infielder and outfielder at the University of Florida under head coach Andy Lopez. He was a member the 1998 Gator team that qualified for the College World Series. He earned Freshman All-American honors in 1998 and was named Academic All-SEC from 1997-2001. For his career, Siegel boasted a .303 batting average.

Most recently, Siegel spent time working in the commercial real estate market in Dallas-Fort Worth, including his most recent position as Vice President for NAI Robert Lynn.

Siegel graduated from the University of Florida in 2000 with a Finance degree and minor in Economics. He also earned a postbaccalaureate degree in History in 2001.

Siegel now resides in Tucson with his wife, Erin, and their daughter, Molly.