Baseball
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- Recruiting and Player Development Assistant
Adam Cornwell enters his first season at Michigan serving as the program's Recruiting and Player Development Assistant.
Cornwell joins from the University of Indianapolis after four seasons with the Greyhounds, serving as the team’s pitching coach and recruiting coordinator. In his four seasons at UIndy, he helped lead the Greyhounds to three staight Midwest Regional titles in 2023, 2024 and 2025, two Midwest Super Regional titles in 2023 and 2024, and back-to-back trips to the NCAA D2 World Series in 2023 and 2024. 2023 marked the first year the Greyhounds had returned to the NCAA Tournament since Cornwell’s departure as a player in 2016. Over the last 3 season at UIndy, the Greyhounds compiled a record of 114-66 (.633). In his first season coaching with the Greyhounds, he coached the GLVC Pitcher of the Year, Xavier Rivas. In 2023, his pitching staff improved in every statistical category, including a program-best strikeouts per nine-inning mark.
Before coaching at UIndy, he served on the staff at the University of Dayton, where he helped the Flyers reach the Atlantic 10 championship game, secure a second-place finish, and achieve the second-most strikeouts in program history over his two seasons. He started his collegiate coaching career at Iona College, where he helped two pitchers earn All-MAAC accolades and set a program record for strikeouts in a season.
Cornwell played for Indianapolis for three seasons before finishing his collegiate career at the University of Pittsburgh. With the Greyhounds, he led the team to a pair of NCAA Division II Tournament appearances and pitched in the team’s GLVC Tournament Championship game win. He played one year in the Frontier League with the Traverse City Beach Bums before earning a master’s in athletic coaching education at Ball State in 2019.
He graduated from UIndy with a bachelor’s in sport management in 2016.
