Tom Carty enters season number three as the Bobcats' skipper.

Carty returned the historic Bobcat program to excellence in 2009 with its third trip to the NCAA Tournament in the last four seasons in 2009, compiling a 37-19 overall record and a 16-11 Peach Belt Conference (PBC) ledger, good for third.

The youthful Bobcats went 33-24 with Carty at the helm in 2008, kicking it into high gear for the final few weeks to claw into the fifth spot in the Peach Belt playoffs.

While Carty has been with the program, the Bobcats own an amazing 169-71 (.704) mark, the first two Peach Belt Conference Championships in school history and three trips to the NCAA Regional Tournament. As a head coach, Carty owns a 70-43 mark.

Carty previously served primarily as pitching coach, helping produce a pair of All-America honors from Michael Antonini. He joined fellow pitcher Andy Reichard as Major League Baseball draftees in 2007, Reichard in the 13th round to the San Francisco Giants, and Antonini to the New York Mets in round 18. Add in Chrisitan Castorri, and a total of three pitchers that have worked with Carty at Georgia College are active in the major leagues.

As recruiting coordinator, Carty helped bring in solid classes in each of his two years, including multiple players who were drafted before committing to Georgia College.

The Bobcat pitching staff was at an all-time high in 2006, compiling a school-best 2.82 ERA with 437 strikeouts, the third-best total by GCSU hurlers. Add to that a 3.53 ERA, 408 strikeouts and four shutouts in 2007, and one can see the strong impact Carty has had on the Bobcat arms.
In the summer of 2006, he served as head coach of the USA Athletes International Team that won a gold medal in Oldenzaal, the Netherlands.

Prior to Georgia College, Carty spent four seasons as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for Division I Marshall University, then a member of the Mid-American Conference. While there he helped the Thundering Herd pitching staff break many school single season records.

Carty also spent one year at North Carolina State University where he was the director of baseball operations and served the summer of 2001 as the pitching coach for the Delaware Valley Gulls of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League. Carty spent two years as an assistant coach at West Chester University in Pennsylvania in 1999 and 2000 and also held coaching assignments at Delaware Valley College and Montgomery County Community College prior to that.

Carty graduated with a degree in History from Gwynedd-Mercy College in Pennsylvania in 1996. He is originally from Norristown, Pa.

 

Year	W	L
2009	37	19
2008	33	24

Zeke Mitchem enters his third season as assistant coach. Mitchem will continue to handle coaching infield defense and the offensive game plan, as well as third base coaching duties.  

2009 was a stellar year for the Bobcats. The baserunners were at an all-time high stealing 154 bases, which ties for school best. Georgia College's 60 HR, .316 batting and .477 slugging added to the 405 RBI one could see the impact that Mitchem had on the Bobcat batters. The team also had 933 total bases including 119 doubles, which are also top-10 records for Georgia College.

In 2008, the Bobcats stole 132 bases which ranks fourth all-time for Georgia College. Under Mitchem, the team had 124 doubles, which is tied for seventh all-time. Also, Pete Paris and Brooks Robinson joined the list for most doubles in a single season with 20 (T11) and 18 (T17) respectively.

Since 2005, Mitchem has worked internationally in baseball, most recently as head coach of the Solingen Alligators Baseball Club in Germany and as assistant coach for the German Senior National Team since 2005. He also served as head coach of the Northern Districts Baseball Club in Australia in 2006 and the Mainz Athletics Baseball Club in Germany from 2005-06.

Carty and Mitchem first crossed paths as members of the Thundering Herd coaching staff at Marshall University from 2003-04. Prior to Marshall, Mitchem-whose career expertise has been on infield defense and hitting-was a member of another Division I squad at Drexel University from 2000-03. He also served as an assistant at Division II Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Ark. from 1999-2000.

Mitchem has also served as head coach for multiple summer semi-pro squads in Oregon, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Clay Kuklick returns for his second season as graduate assistant coach. Kuklick comes to Milledgeville from his alma mater Kutztown University, where he served as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2008 season.

He was a four-year starting catcher for Kutztown from 2002-05. A 2005 second-team All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) East choice, Kuklick ended his career among KU's all-time leaders in games played, at-bats, runs, hits and times hit by pitch. He was named the 2005 PSAC tournament MVP and went on to play professionally in the independent Can-Am League in 2005-07.

Kuklick will work with the catchers, coach first base on gameday, as well as aid assistant coach Zeke Mitchem with the hitters and recruiting.