Carl Iwasaki is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Northern Colorado Bears baseball team. He was named to that position prior to the 2011 season. Iwasaki played four seasons at Northern Colorado from 1981 through 1984, graduating in 1985. He later spent five years coaching the Bakersfield Braves select team and three years with Hawaii Winter Baseball. He then served as an assistant coach for two seasons with the Saddleback Gauchos junior college team in Mission Viejo, California. Next, he worked two seasons at Division III Austin before being elevated to the top job for five seasons. He made the rare jump from Division III to newly Division I Northern Colorado in the summer of 2010. In his three seasons with the Bears, he has led the team to a Great West Conference title and the championship game of the 2011 Great West Conference Baseball Tournament. Iwasaki earned GWC Coach of the Year honors in 2013. The Bears joined the Western Athletic Conference for the 2014 season. [More at Wikipedia]

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