Auburn head baseball coach Sunny Golloway completed his staff on Tuesday, July 30 after he announced that Hunter Vick will join the Tigers' staff as a volunteer assistant coach.
Vick has spent the past two seasons at Central Alabama Community College, where he and the Trojans won a national title in 2013 and climbed as high as No. 2 in the national rankings in 2012.
"I'm very happy to be here," Vick said. "I look forward to the plans Coach Golloway has for Auburn baseball. I've worked Auburn camps in the past, and we've got a lot of things in common. I knew Greg Norton when he was at Tampa Bay and he got called up to the majors a couple of times. When we talked, he thought I reminded him a lot of himself."
He will work with the Tigers' infielders alongside Golloway. He will also help with camps, off-field instruction and on-campus recruiting.
"We've very excited to add Hunter Vick to our coaching staff," Golloway said. "He comes to us with a wealth of knowledge as an infield instructor, and has really groomed some talented players over the years. He's very excited and loves Auburn, which was very important to me. I think that he will work very well with our coaching staff. Chemistry played a big factor. The fact that he knows the junior colleges in our area, the fact that he helped coach a team to a national championship and is a proven winner also came into play. We're very excited for him and his wife, Lauren, to be part of the Auburn family."
A native of Thomasville, Vick played collegiately at the University of West Florida and then played professionally for four years in the Tampa Bay Devil Rays organization.
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