OVERLAND PARK, Kan.- Norm DeBriyn, former Titan student-athlete and University of Arkansas head baseball coach, will be inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the 2025 class, the College Baseball Foundation announced Monday (June 23).

While injuries did not allow DeBriyn to compete at UW-Oshkosh during his senior year in 1963, he did earn two varsity letters in football and two in baseball during his sophomore and junior years. The Ashland native earned letters in football, basketball and baseball before graduating from Depadua High School.

DeBriyn, the head baseball coach at Arkansas from 1970-2002, graduated from UW-Oshkosh in 1963. Following graduation, DeBriyn taught and coached at Hortonville High School from 1963-68. He earned his master's degree at the University of Northern Colorado in 1969 before taking the head coaching position at Arkansas. He was also an assistant professor in the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Division from 1969-76 at Arkansas.

In a coaching career that spanned four decades, DeBriyn transformed Arkansas into a national powerhouse after taking over as head coach in 1970 at the age of 28. The winningest coach in school history, DeBriyn guided the Razorbacks to a record of 1,161-650-6 (.641 winning percentage), two Southwest Conference (SWC) titles, one Southeastern Conference (SEC) title, one SEC Western Division title, 15 NCAA Division I Championship appearances and four NCAA College World Series appearances.

The Razorbacks recorded their best national finish is school history under DeBriyn in 1979, finishing as runner-up in the College World Series. In his 33 seasons at the helm of the Arkansas baseball program, DeBriyn coached 19 All-America selections, six Freshman All-Americans, 58 all-conference selections, and 48 all-conference tournament selections. He was named SWC Coach of the Year in 1978, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1989 and 1990, and SEC Coach of the Year in 1999.

DeBriyn, the second Razorback to be inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame, was inducted into the UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame, Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame and the University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor in 1991, the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame in 2015.

The 18th induction class, comprised of players, coaches and other builders of the game who have positively impacted college baseball, will be honored at the 2026 Night of Champions presented on Feb. 12, 2026, in Overland Park, Kan., the home of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. The event will serve as the ceremonial start to the 2026 college baseball season, which begins on Feb. 13, 2026. For more information and to reserve your tickets, please visit the CBF website.

Along with the Hall of Fame inductees, the Night of Champions will celebrate the winners of the 2025 College Baseball Foundation awards, including Roch Cholowksy, UCLA (Brooks Wallace Award); Jake Knapp, North Carolina (National Pitcher of the Year); Evan Dempsey, Florida Gulf Coast (John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year); Brad Neffendorf, LSU Shreveport (Skip Bertman Coach of the Year); and Larry Lee, Cal Poly (Wayne Graham Award for Teaching Excellence).

DeBriyn joins 2005 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Famer Tim Jorgensen in the College Baseball Hall of Fame. Jorgensen was inducted in 2012.

To be eligible for the College Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, players must be out of college for 15 years and have completed one year of competition at a two-year institution in the CCCAA, NJCAA or a four-year NCAA (Division I, II or III) or NAIA institution. Ballot-eligible coaches must be retired for two years or be active and no less than 75 years old.

2025 COLLEGE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME CLASS
Players

• Gene Ammann, Pitcher, Florida State University, 1968-70
• Kris Benson, Pitcher, Clemson University, 1994-96
• Kip Bouknight, Pitcher, University of South Carolina, 1998-2001
• Hubie Brooks, Shortstop, Mesa College/Arizona State University, 1976-78
• Gene Hooks, Third Baseman, Wake Forest University, 1947-50
• Mike Loynd, Pitcher, Florida State University, 1984-86
• Mark McGwire, First Baseman/Pitcher, University of Southern California, 1982-84
• Phil Nevin, Third Base, Cal State Fullerton, 1990-92
• David Price, Pitcher, Vanderbilt University, 2005-07
• Earl Sanders, Pitcher, Jackson State University, 1984-86
• Mike Stenhouse, Outfielder, Harvard University, 1977-79
• Stephen Strasburg, Pitcher, San Diego State University, 2007-09
• Joe Thomas, Pitcher/First Baseman, Marietta College, 1994-97

Coaches

• Norm DeBriyn, Coach, University of Arkansas, 1970-2002
• *Clint Evans, Coach, University of California, 1930-54
• *Ray Fisher, Third Baseman/Pitcher/Coach, Middlebury College 1907-09/1910 (Third Baseman/Pitcher/Coach) / University of Michigan / 1921-59 (Coach)
• Les Murakami, Coach, University of Hawai'i, 1968-97
• Ray Tanner, Coach, North Carolina State, 1988-96/University of South Carolina, 1997-2012
• Jerry Weinstein, Coach, Sacramento State College, 1975-98

* To be inducted posthumously

Administrators / Builders / Umpires

• Scott Boras, Agent, University of the Pacific, 1974-77
• Paul Guillie, Umpire – 1990-2014/SEC Coordinator of Baseball Umpires – 2014-current