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After 20+ years of service as the head baseball coach, Steve Cook took on an expanded role in the Coe Athletic Department when he was named Director of Athletics and Recreation in January of 2020. Cook first came to Coe in 1996 as an assistant baseball coach, moving to the head coach position the following year. Cook is a 1993 graduate of Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, a traditional NCAA Division III powerhouse. A four-year starter in the infield, Cook was an All-American in 1993 when his nationally ranked team finished 37-5 overall.  Cook was inducted into the Allegheny College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009. 

He spent three years playing in the minor leagues, including a stop with the Cedar Rapids Kernels. During the 1994 season, Cook and the Kernels won the Midwest League championship.

Cook surpassed the 600-win plateau during the 2023 season and is, by-far, the program's winningest coach. Cook's teams have recorded the top eight win totals in school history, including a 37-win season in 2019 and a 36-win season in 202. His success continued in the 2024 campaign, claiming the A-R-C regular season and postseason titles. Coe was 18-6 in conference play and 3-0 in the conference tournament, winning both titles for the first time in Cook's career. Jake Brosius was named third team all-American following one of the best all-around seasons in program history. Cook Coe won the A-R-C regular season championship in 2019 and Cook was named Coach of the Year in the conference and the region. The Kohawks .822 winning percentage (37-8) was best in the nation. The 2021 Kohawks put together another excellent season with a record of 36-7 as four players earned all-region honors in TJ Johnson, TJ Deardorff, Riley LeGrand and Isaac Evans. Cook, who was named the A-R-C Coach of the Year, helped Johnson and Deardorff make history as the first two Kohawks to earn All-American honors in the same season. 

Cook's incredible run continued in the 2022 season where the Kohawks battled and up-and-down regular season but punched their way to the NCAA Tournament with an unprecedented A-R-C Tournament victory as the fifth overall seed. Coe would go on to fall to eventual world series participant UW-Stevens Point in the regional round of the NCAA Tournament. Three Kohawks were named all-conference performers as TJ Deardorff, Creighton Kreshel and TJ Johnson all earned the honor. In 2023, Cook hit a career milestone, reaching his 600th win in charge of the Kohawk baseball program. His team won their second game of the conference tournament and had 8 all-conference performers. Cook helped return the team to the NCAA tournament in 2024, ripping off a late-season run that culminated in a regular season and postseason conference title with junior Jake Brosius earning a pair of all-American honors. 2025 was another strong year for Coe, winning 20-plus games for the eighth season in a row while Ethan O'Donnell and Jack Walsh earned all-region honors. 

Coach Cook resides in Mount Vernon with his wife Shannon and daughters Callie, Shelby, Lilly, Maggie, Lucy and Elsie.

Steve Cook Year-By-Year

*Midwest Conference