Player Bio: Gene Depew - BUCKNELL OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE

Gene Depew

	Hometown: Mifflinburg, Pa.
	Last College: Bucknell '71
	Position: Head Coach

Experience:
29th Season

Phone: 570-577-3593
Email: depew@bucknell.edu

Guided by three-time Patriot League Coach of the Year, Gene Depew, the Bucknell baseball team annually ranks near the top of the Patriot League and is coming off its third Patriot League Tournament title in the last eight years. In the past 12 seasons, Depew has helped the Bison to a top-two finish in the Patriot League standings seven times. During that span, they have made four NCAA Tournament appearances (1996, 2001, 2003 and 2008).

Since 1996, Bucknell has broken the 20-win plateau 10 times, including three 30-win campaigns, and Depew's career winning percentage of .466 (498-572-7) is the best at Bucknell since William Lane's career ended in 1957.

Last spring Depew guided the Bison to perhaps the biggest win in program history when they defeated No. 4 nationally ranked Florida State 7-0 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. It was just the fourth time a Patriot League team won an NCAA postseason game.

On an individual level, Depew has won the Patriot League Coach of the Year award three times (1993, 1996, 2003), has had three Patriot League Pitchers of the Year (Mike Tomko, 1996; Mike Anders, 1998; Kevin Miller, 2003), three Players of the Year (Kevin Silverman, 1996; Frank Fresconi, 2000; Jason Buursma, 2008) and two Rookies of the Year (Phil Futrick, 2003; Ben Yoder, 2007). Depew has also led 53 student-athletes to 81 Patriot League first- and second-team accolades. In the classroom, Bucknell baseball has had 11 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Americans since 1992, including Jason Buursma, who was named to the first team in 2008.

A 1971 Bucknell graduate, Depew is entering his 28th season as the Bison's head coach and has the longest tenure of any coach in Bucknell baseball history. He has directed his teams to 498 victories, nearly four times the amount of any coach in school history. To honor that, Bucknell's baseball field was renamed Depew Field during the 2003 season.

A native of Mifflintown, Pa., Depew was the recipient of both bachelor and master of science degrees in education from Bucknell. Football was the first sport for which Depew was a coach, as he oversaw the Bison gridders' defensive line from 1972-1992. It was in 1974 that Depew began his current occupation, first as an assistant coach for the baseball team until 1981, after which he assumed the lead role.

As an undergraduate, Depew was a standout football player for the Bison. He was a three-year letterwinner and co-captained the squad in 1970. He played every position on the defensive line, and was described by his head coach as "being as hard-nosed as they come. He has excellent speed and size for a defensive lineman." In 1969, he was named All-Middle Atlantic Conference honorable mention. Depew has two brothers who also played football for Bucknell, Terry (`73) and Alvin (`81). Gene and his wife, Debbie, reside in Mifflinburg and are the parents of a daughter, Erin, a 2006 graduate of Bucknell, and a son, William, a member of the Class of 2010.