Trojan Coaching Staff

Head Coach Scott Douglas

Coach Scott Douglas enters his tenth year as the Head Coach of the TSJC baseball program. Coach Douglas has over 19 years of coaching experience at the Division I, III, NAIA, semi-pro, and professional levels.

Douglas played his junior college baseball at Waldorf College in Iowa and then Division I at Hardin-Simmons University in Texas. Douglas enjoyed a solid collegiate career which was highlighted by 206 career hits and only two errors in 222 chances his senior season. He signed his first professional contract in June of 1994 and collected his first professional hit off of former Atlanta Brave and Minnesota Twin Juan Berenguer.

After two seasons of independent professional baseball as a player, Douglas retired to become the third base coach and later managed in the independent pro ball league. He returned to college baseball as an assistant at the University of Northern Iowa and soon after finished his Masters Degree in Sports and Recreation Management from HSU.

The 2009 Trojans won the Empire Conference crown with a 24-6 record. They spent much of the season in the top 20 of the NJCAA rankings and finished the year with 43 wins.

Coach Douglas and his wife Keri have two sons, 8 year old Kade and 5 year old Seth.

ASSISTANT COACH-bench coach/3^rd base coach

Colter Faverino

In his fifth season with the Trinidad State Junior College Trojan Baseball team, Faverino will be the bench coach as well as the 3rd base coach. A graduate of Bloomfield High School in Bloomfield, NM, Coach Faverino lettered in both football and baseball and was selected to first team all-district twice, all state, and was a starter in the North-South All Star Game.

He began his coaching career at Navajo Prep High School in Farmington, NM, as varsity assistant coach and was appointed JV coach at Bloomfield the following year. He was promoted to varsity assistant and pitching coach in 2003, and is also the founder of the Four Corners Rage, a Connie Mack baseball team in Farmington. His team earned a bid to the 2005 Connie Mack World Series. Colter and his wife Janet live in Trinidad, CO where Colter works for Hanover Compression and his wife Janet teaches kindergarten at Eckhart Elementary School.

"Colter is my right hand man," said Coach Douglas. "He no longer has to wear so many hats with the addition of Matt. I’m glad that he only has to focus on the position player side of things."

ASSISTANT COACH -pitching coach/recruiting coordinator

Matt Cover 

Matt Cover enters his second year as the pitching coach/recruiting coordinator at TSJC. Cover was born and raised in Pueblo. His parents are Sheila and the late Jim Cover.

“My parents are my heroes and have been extremely supportive throughout my life”, Coach Cover said.

Coach Cover also has two brothers, Brian and Kevin.

 Cover graduated from Pueblo South.  He played baseball for Marc Johnson’s Cherry Creek fall baseball team both his junior and senior years. After high school he went on to play two successful years at Lamar Community College.

Cover then went to Texas Tech before transferring to CSU-Pueblo to finish out his career in his hometown. After college he was the pitching coach at Otero for three years.

“Matt has been a solid addition to our staff,” commented Head Coach Scott Douglas. “We were looking for a guy who could teach and could help pitchers develop. He did that at Otero and he has already done that here. I was very impressed with how the Otero starters pitched during his time there and it was evident Matt was the reason. When I heard Matt was available and realized he would fit here, we hired him. The timing was right and the fit was there. Matt's work with the pitchers was one of the reasons we got 43 wins last season. Both Colter (Assistant Coach Colter Faverino) and Matt make us a better program. I am fortunate to have them coaching with me.”

ASSISTANT COACH

Mitch McGill

Mitch McGill enters his first year as an assistant coach with the TSJC baseball program.

Born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, his parents are David and Terry McGill. Coach McGill has one sister, Kendell, a former professional basketball player in the Dominican Republic.

McGill earned his bachelor’s degree in Sport Management and Physical Education from Virginia Intermont College in 2006.

Coach McGill was a catcher for the Cobras and earned Appalachian Athletic Conference All-Academic and Athletic Director honor roll accolades all four years. During the summers, he played in the Southern Collegiate Wooden Bat League. His most memorable baseball moment was homering in his first college at-bat.

For the past three years, Coach McGill has taught in the Physical Education Activity Program at the University of Tennessee while completing his Masters degree in Sport Studies. In addition, he helped guide the Gibbs High School baseball program to three consecutive Tennessee State playoff appearances as an assistant coach.

McGill has spent the past three summers working as an instructor and assisted with baseball operations for Cal Ripken Jr.’s Baseball Academy in Aberdeen, Maryland and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. McGill is married to Ellen Johnson McGill, the head volleyball coach at TSJC.