Report: Miami baseball names JD Arteaga head coach after 21 seasons as assistant

The Miami Hurricanes have their new head baseball coach.

According to a report from Kendall Rogers of D1Baseball, Miami is promoting JD Arteaga to the Hurricanes head coaching position.

Arteaga was an assistant with Miami for the past 21 seasons, serving as the Hurricanes pitching coach since 2003. He was also the associate head coach this past season under Gino DiMare, who stepped down after this past year.

JD Arteaga is also a former Hurricanes player, who pitched at Miami from 1994-1997. Miami made the College World Series all four of those years. Arteaga left school as the Hurricanes all-time leaders in wins with 43 and the all-time starts leader with 72. He ranks second for innings pitched in a career with 458 1/3 and is fifth on the all-time strikeouts chart with 343 for his career.

Miami reached the College World Series six times with Arteaga as an assistant, including most recently in 2016. The Hurricanes have also made the NCAA Tournament in 18 of his 21 seasons. The U finished 42-21 in 2023 and hosted a regional as the No. 9 overall seed. However, Texas came in and won the Coral Gables Regional to advance.

More on Gino DiMare stepping down as Miami baseball head coach

The promotion of JD Arteaga comes nearly three weeks after Gino DiMare stepped down as the head coach of the Hurricanes.

DiMare spent the last five seasons in Coral Gables, making four NCAA Tournament appearances.

“After evaluating this past season and talking extensively with my family, I have decided it is in my best interests and the best interests of the program to step away as head coach,” DiMare said in a statement.

“I would like to thank President Frenk and Dan Radakovich for their support, and Blake James for giving me the opportunity to become the head coach at Miami. I want to thank my coaches and staff for all their hard work, and especially the players – the relationships I have built with them are something I will cherish forever.”

Although DiMare made every single NCAA Tournament possible for him, Miami never made it out of a regional. This year was the latest disappointment as Texas won the Coral Gables Regional.

Prior to being the head coach, DiMare served as an assistant on the staff. He joined in 1997 and stayed all the way through the 2008 season. His second stint began in 2012, and he was eventually promoted to head coach before the 2019 season.

DiMare has now decided to step away from the program after nearly two and a half decades.

“I want to thank Gino for his dedication to Miami baseball over the last 24 years,” Vice President/Director of Athletics Dan Radakovich said. “He is a great ambassador for our program both on and off the field. I wish Gino and his family all the best in their next chapter, and he will always be a member of the Hurricane Family. We will begin the search for a new head coach immediately.”