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David Bellamy completed his fourth season at Washington State and second as the Cougars’ Volunteer Assistant Coach where he coached the catchers and assisted with the hitters and baserunning. Bellamy worked the 2021 campaign as WSU’s Director of Player Development and spent the 2020 season as a graduate assistant working alongside head coach Brian Green while working with the hitters and outfielders.
 
Bellamy helped the 2023 Cougars post a 29-23 record, their fourth-straight winning season and the most wins since 2015, including series wins at No. 15 Oregon State, over No. 12 UCLA, Arizona, at California, WCC champion Santa Clara and claimed the season series over Gonzaga, 2-1. Following the series win at No. 15 OSU to open conference play, WSU appeared at No. 20 in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Top-25, the Cougars first national ranking since 2010. WSU put up impressive numbers offensively in all three phases, hitting the tenth-most home runs in program history (54), recording the most stolen bases since 2015 (70), was hit by the pitch the third-most in program history (92), fielded at a .974 clip for the fourth-best fielding percentage in program history and the pitching staff set the strikeout record for the second straight season (518).
 
Following the season, five Cougars received All-Pac-12 recognition led by All-West Region designated hitter Jacob McKeon who was also named an Academic All-American and the Pac-12 Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Along with McKeon, transfer first baseman Sam Brown, transfer outfielder Jonah Advincula, infielder Elijah Hainline and pitcher Dakota Hawkins each earned all-league recognition.

In 2022, WSU posted their third straight winning season and closed the year with series wins in four of the final five weekends, clinching series at No. 10 Oregon, USC, Utah Valley and wrapped up the season with the first sweep over Arizona State in program history. The Cougars posted a pair of road series wins over Top-10 teams for the first time in program history after taking two of three at ninth-ranked Arizona and No. 10 Oregon, notching road series wins in Tucson and Eugene for the first time since 2012. Following the season, three players earned All-Pac-12 Conference honors highlighted by designated hitter Jacob McKeon who earned first-team honors and was later named to the ABCA All-West Region Second Team.
 
WSU continued to put up impressive numbers in the community and in the classroom, placing nine on the Pac-12 Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll and posted 3.14 team GPA in the fall and spring semesters, the highest spring semester team GPA in program history. In the community, WSU partnered with WSU ROAR, a two-year postsec­ondary education program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, to host a Lentil Cookoff at Bailey-Brayton Field.

In his second season working with the Cougar offense, Bellamy helped WSU to its first winning season since 2015 and the most Pac-12 Conference wins since 2014 after posting conference series wins at Utah, at California, against No. 8 Oregon and Washington. The Cougars finished the 2021 season leading the Pac-12 and fifth in the country in doubles-per-game (2.4), second in the conference in hitting (.302), third in extra-base hits (101) and third in scoring (7.2 runs/g) while pacing the league with 74 doubles in conference games. First baseman Kyle Manzardo was named to the All-America First Team by Collegiate baseball, earning All-America honors for the second straight season after hitting .365 with 19 doubles, 11 home runs and 60 RBI, the first Cougar with 60 RBI since 2008.

In 2020, Bellamy helped WSU finish third in the Pac-12 in hits, home runs and hit-by-pitches and tied for second in the country in sacrifice bunts while first baseman Kyle Manzardo earned All-American third-team honors after producing some of the best offensive numbers in the country. The sophomore recorded a Pac-12-best 27 hits, was second with a.435 batting average and earned WSU’s first Pac-12 Player of the Week accolade since 2016. 

In September of 2020, Bellamy was named the third field manager in the history of the St. Cloud Rox in the Northwoods Collegiate Summer League. Bellamy spent the previous two summers as the hitting coach of the Rox, helping them to a 71-43 record including a division title and playoff appearance in 2019. As manager of the Rox during the summer of 2021, Bellamy guided his St. Cloud club to a franchise-record 53 wins, the third-best winning percentage in Northwoods League history, first and second half Great Plains West Division crowns, managed and won the Northwoods League All-Star Game, led St. Cloud to the Northwoods League Championship series and was named the Northwoods League Field Manager of the Year.

Prior to joining Washington State, Bellamy worked as a graduate assistant at New Mexico State where he helped the Aggies to a Western Athletic Conference Regular Season Championship. In 2019, the New Mexico State offense finished the regular season with a school-record .356 batting average and led the country in batting average, runs, runs per game, hits, triples, on base percentage, slugging percentage and hit by pitch. Individually, shortstop Joey Ortiz was named the WAC Player of the Year, a semifinalist for the Brooks Wallace Award (best shortstop in the country) and Dick Howser Award (best player in the country), along with being selected in the fourth-round of the 2019 MLB Draft by the Baltimore Orioles. Second baseman Nick Gonzales was also a semifinalist for the Howser Award and the Golden Spikes Award (national player of the year) and was selected seventh-overall in the 2020 MLB Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates. 

Bellamy was a two-year letterwinner as an outfielder at New Mexico State (2017-18) where he hit .306 as a senior and helped the Aggies to a NCAA Regional appearance while also earning Google Cloud Academic All-District first-team honors as well as first-team academic All-WAC honors. 

The Eugene, Ore. native also played the 2015 season at Saint Martin’s University and 2016 season at Lane Community College in Eugene where he earned All-NWAC first-team honors. Bellamy attended Sheldon High School in Eugene where he was a four-year letterwinner and helped lead SHS to its first state title in school history in 2013, and a consecutive appearance in the state championship game in 2014. Bellamy was also selected to play in the Oregon Futures All-Star game in 2013.