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DiMare out as Miami baseball coach after team didn't advance past regionals during his tenure

On3 imageby:Matt Shodell•06/08/23•

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Gino DiMare
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Miami Hurricanes baseball fans learned the fate of coach Gino DiMare on Thursday afternoon. He will not be back as coach after no Super Regional or College World Series appearances.

The bar may have been set high, but it wasn’t reached in Gino DiMare’s five years heading the program.

Now the search is on for the Canes’ 10th baseball coach.

DiMare, a former player and assistant coach before being elevated after Jim Morris’ departure, saw his teams have some success during the regular season but not much in the postseason. In his first year it was Mississippi State advancing in the Starkville regional, with UM going 41-20 on the year, then came a COVID-shortened 12-4 season. In 2021 the team went 33-21 and lost to USF and South Alabama in the Gainesville regional, then last year UM was 40-20 and a national seed but fell in regionals at home to Ole Miss and Arizona. This season Miami again hosted regionals (and was the No. 9 overall seed) but fell twice to the Longhorns.

A Miami release stated that DiMare “announced Thursday that he is stepping down as the head coach of the University of Miami baseball program.”

“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.

“I am grateful to Coach Fraser for giving me the opportunity to play here and Coach Morris for giving me the chance to start my vocation here. I am fortunate to say I have spent more than half my life as a player or coach at the University of Miami. I will always be a Hurricanes fan and wish this program continued success.”

Now the hunt is on for a new coach who will resuscitate a program that has 25 CWS appearances since 1973 and won national titles in 1982, 1985, 1999 and 2001.

“I want to thank Gino for his dedication to Miami baseball over the last 24 years,” 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.”

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