Ian Ferguson enters his second season on Metro State's staff in 2012-13 under head coach
Jerrid Oates. He serves as the team's pitching coach.
Despite a 15-31 record in 2012 in his first season, Metro State won four of its final seven games to finish on a strong note, batting .403 over those final seven games.
The Roadrunners were led by Darryl Baca, who was named RMAC Freshman of the Year and earned first team all-region honors. Two more freshmen put together some outstanding feats as Mitch Gibbons and Mike Thill were the first Metro State freshmen to earn RMAC player or pitcher of the week honors in school history. Baca batted .372 with 52 runs batted in and 11 home runs, leading the team in all three categories. Gibbons hit .340 with 28 runs and 24 RBIs and Thill led the team with a 4-5 record and a 6.75 ERA.
Thill was one of two of Ferguson's young pitchers to earn awards during the season. Junior Justin Arceneaux was named third team All-RMAC after going 3-5 with a 5.21 ERA. Ferguson inherited a staff of six returners that combined for zero starts just 33.1 innings and a 1-2 record in 2011. With the thin staff in 2012, four new starters took over, led by Arceneaux and Thill. Freshman Nick Hammett was sixth in the RMAC with a .284 opponent batting average in conference games and made 10 starts during the season. Arceneaux and Thill both ranked in the top 15 in ERA.
Ferguson spent the previous three seasons as the pitching coach at Colorado School of Mines under Oates.
Ferguson played three years at Regis University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in business administration in 2001. He was a two-time RMAC Pitcher of the Year and went on to be drafted in the 21st round by the Kansas City Royals in 2000. He holds Regis record for wins in a season (11) and single-season strikeouts (119). He is also the career ERA leader (4.02) and still ranks in the top five in six categories in the career record book at Regis. Ferguson was inducted into the Regis University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.
During his four-year career in the Royals system, he posted a 41-18 record and a 3.63 ERA. In 2002, Ferguson led all minor league pitchers in wins (18) and was the starting pitcher in the Carolina League All-Star Game. That year, he was named Kansas City Royals Minor League Pitcher of the Year.
A native of Bellingham, Wash., Ferguson and his wife Shannon have daughters Mackenzie and Macie.
