Pasco-Hernando State College (PHSC) named Assistant Athletic Director and Head Baseball Coach Lyndon Coleman as its new athletic director, effective March 3, 2025. Coleman will remain the head baseball coach and become the fourth athletic director in school history, succeeding longtime leader and former PHSC Baseball Coach and Athletic Director Steve Winterling.
A former Bobcat standout student athlete, Coleman played two seasons (2009-2010) under Winterling, earning All-Suncoast Conference honors and helping PHSC set a school-record 37 wins at the time. He continued his collegiate career at Barry University, where he was part of the Bucs' 2011 team that finished 20-4, good for first place in the Sunshine State Conference.
Coleman’s coaching experience includes stops at Barry University, St. Petersburg College and multiple collegiate summer ball teams including Winchester Royals, Keene Swamp Bats and Charlottesville Tom Sox. In 2016, Coleman returned to PHSC as a recruiting coordinator and assistant baseball coach with Steve Winterling. In eight full seasons, 10 total as a coach at PHSC, Coleman has been part of 317 wins, 214 as a head coach, winning four Coach of the Year titles (2019 NJCAA D2 Southeast District) and three Sun-Lakes Conference Coaches of the Year (2022, 2023, 2024) awards. Under Coleman’s leadership the bobcats won three consecutive Sun-Lakes Conference championships. In Coleman’s first season as head coach at PHSC in 2019, he made an immediate impact, leading the Bobcats to a third-place finish at the NJCAA DII World Series. Coleman secured his 200th head coaching win at PHSC on January 28, 2025 and continues to accumulate on the field success at the helm of the school’s baseball program.
Over his 10-year tenure, Coleman has had 10 plus players move on to four-year schools per year on average, many being Division I. He has graduated 10 plus students per year, on average, while maintaining a 3.0 GPA or higher in every semester over his tenure. Coleman has seen three players drafted to Major League organizations: Davian Garcia, sixth round and Jackson Ross, ninth round (Washington Nationals), and Chay Yeager 12th round (Toronto Blue Jays).
Coleman has been crucial in helping with facility improvements within Athletics which includes the installation of the all-new baseball irrigation system and field turf in 2020, the first state college to have turf in the state. He was also a part of the process of the installation of the LED Musco field lighting to the baseball field, donated by Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative in 2021.
In his efforts, Coleman and his program have helped raise $300,000 through donations, special events and golf tournaments. Coleman has helped set up and run numerous local high-school baseball tournaments, including the Larry Beets Classic, an invite-only championship tournament. Through this initiative, over 50 high-school programs across the state have competed in the tournaments held at PHSC. He has continued community service efforts through helping with the Rotary of Seven Springs Country Club, Pasco road side clean up, Cotee River Flats Classic, Paint A House in Pasco, and USA Baseball.
“What Lyndon has done with the baseball program over the past several years is a model for what we would like to see across PHSC Athletics,” said Jesse Pisors, Ed.D., PHSC president. “That, probably more than anything else, is what made it clear to me that Lyndon Coleman was the right person to follow Steve Winterling in this role. He also has been a great coach, and since the Athletic Director is the ‘leader of coaches,’ his model work as a head coach gives him a particular leadership strength in this aspect of his new job.”
Learn more about Coleman at: bobcats.phsc.edu/inside/director