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LWC baseball adds Branca and Gonsoulin to coaching staff

By Charles Balcom, Assistant LWC Sports Information Director

COLUMBIA, KY - Lindsey Wilson baseball head coach Jonathan Burton has announced the hiring of Stephen Branca and Ridge Gonsoulin as assistant coaches for the 2016-17 season.



Branca joins Lindsey Wilson after serving as the head coach of the Westcoast Scorpions and Fishhawk Wolves travel baseball teams since 2014. He has also worked as a volunteer assistant baseball coach at Bloomingdale High School in Florida from 2012-15.

Prior to his coaching days, Branca played collegiate baseball for the University of Central Florida for three seasons before transferring to Tennessee Wesleyan College where he helped the Bulldogs win the 2012 NAIA National Championship as a senior. He was named to the Avista-NAIA All World Series Team and was the Appalachian Athletic Conference Player of the Year, as well as a First Team NAIA All-American.

After college, Branca played professionally in the San Francisco Giants organization from 2012-14. In 2013, he was named the San Francisco Giants Minor League Strength and Conditioning Player of the Month.

Branca graduated from Tennessee Wesleyan in 2012.

Gonsoulin comes to Lindsey Wilson after serving as a strength and conditioning intern with the men's and women's basketball programs at Tulane University in New Orleans.

He has also spent time as an exercise supervisor at Louisiana State University-Shreveport, where he graduated from in 2015.

Gonsoulin played your years of collegiate baseball while at LSU-Shreveport from 2011-14. He appeared in 219 total games in his career, including starting every single game his sophomore, junior and senior seasons for the Pilots. He qualified for the NAIA Opening Round all four seasons with LSU-Shreveport, including back-to-back appearances at the Avista-NAIA World Series his freshman and sophomore seasons.

The duo joins a Blue Raider program that went 44-25 in 2016, advancing to the program's second-straight Avista-NAIA World Series where Lindsey Wilson went 2-2.



This story was posted on 2016-09-09 09:01:53
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