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South Carolina formally announces naming of Ray Tanner Field at Founders Park

Matt Connollyby:Matt Connolly•10/25/24•

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South Carolina athletics director Ray Tanner during Lamont Paris introductory press conference
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The South Carolina Board of Trustees approved naming the field at Founders Park after Ray Tanner on Friday.

The Gamecock Baseball field will now be called “Ray Tanner Field” moving forward. Tanner, who is the Athletics Director at South Carolina, led the Gamecocks to a pair of national titles during his time as the South Carolina head baseball coach.

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Last month, the University reached an agreement with Founders to keep the name Founders Park through the 2035 season.

A group of donors gave $2.5 million for the naming of Ray Tanner Field to take place, South Carolina announced.

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“The accomplishments that I have been a part of at the University of South Carolina is due to the wonderful support of our University administration, Gamecock student-athletes, coaches, staff and fans,” Ray Tanner said in a statement. “This is a tremendous gesture from my friends and donors. I am grateful for their commitment to this project. Our baseball program is one of the best in the nation and will continue to compete for championships as we begin the Paul Mainieri era at USC.”

Ray Tanner spent 16 seasons as the head coach at South Carolina, going 738-316 during his time leading the program.

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He reached the College World Series six times, leading the Gamecocks to back-to-back national titles in 2010 and 2011. Tanner’s teams also finished as national runner-ups in 2002 and 2012.

The Gamecocks also won three SEC regular season titles under Tanner and set an NCAA record with 22 straight NCAA Tournament wins.

Last month, Tanner announced that he is stepping down as the AD of the Gamecocks.

“I’m humbled and honored that I have had the great fortune to be a part of this wonderful university and that will continue,” Tanner said in a release. “For a while now, I have thought there’s going to come a time for Carolina to get a new athletics director, and the president and I have had those conversations. There was interest for me to remain at the university. I agreed to stay in a new role because of my passion for this university, this city and this state.”

Tanner has been South Carolina’s AD since 2012. He is transitioning into a role to become Athletics Director Emeritus and Senior Advisor to University President Michael Amiridis.