Greg Bergeron completed his first season as the Cougars volunteer assistant coach after working the previous four seasons at Long Beach State. During his 20-year coaching career, Bergeron has worked with over 100 players who have been selected in the MLB Draft, including five first-rounders and 11 who have advanced to the Major Leagues.
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With two decades of coaching experience, primarily in Southern California, Bergeron brought valuable experience to the Cougar coaching staff. Prior to his four seasons at LBSU, Bergeron spent 11 seasons as the hitting coach for Dave Serrano at UC Irvine (2005-07), Cal State Fullerton (2008-11) and Tennessee (2012-15).
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In Bergeron’s first season with the Cougars working with the hitters, infielders and serving as the third base coach, WSU posted impressive numbers on and off the field. In the classroom, 22 players posted a fall semester GPA of 3.0 of higher and the team combined for a 3.05 team GPA, the highest team GPA in program history. On the field, WSU posted series wins over Rutgers and Niagara, finished the season third in the Pac-12 Conference in hits, home runs and hit-by-pitches and tied for second in the country in sacrifice bunts. Individually, first baseman Kyle Manzardo started 2020 with some of the best offensive numbers in the country, recording 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.
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At LBSU, Bergeron oversaw the Dirtbags’ offense while also serving as the team’s recruiting coordinator. Following the 2017 season, Bergeron was promoted to Associate Head Coach after two seasons as an assistant coach. During his first two years at the Beach, Bergeron helped guide the Dirtbags to highly successful seasons at the plate. Long Beach State scored 310 runs in 2016 and 312 in 2017, resulting in the highest two-year total since 2009-10. The Dirtbags also hit 60 home runs in Bergeron’s first two seasons, more than the previous five seasons combined (55 home runs). LBSU saw improvements in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, and stolen bases during the 2017 season, which culminated in a Big West Championship and NCAA Super Regional appearance.
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In Bergeron’s four years at Cal State Fullerton, the Titans made postseason in all four years while advancing to the Super Regionals three times and making one trip to the College World Series. Under his direction, the Titans offense had one of its most successful seasons in 2010 with a .337 team batting average that ranked 17th in the country and second in CSUF history.
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His success in Fullerton was a continuation of the success that he also found at UC Irvine where he also helped the Anteaters to a College World Series appearance for the first time in school history. After starting as a volunteer assistant for the 2005 season, Bergeron began running the offense in 2006 with UCI topping the Big West in nearly every offensive category.
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Prior to UCI, Bergeron spent eight years coaching at the junior college level with a year at Cerritos College and seven at El Camino College in Torrance, Calif. He was the head coach at El Camino in 2004 after serving as an assistant for the previous six seasons. In his seven seasons, he had 52 players continue to play baseball at four-year institutions with 30 going to Division I programs.
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His coaching career began at Loyola Marymount as a volunteer assistant in 1996.
After prepping at Gahr High School and earning first-team all-conference honors at Cerritos College, Bergeron played two seasons at Cal State Dominguez Hills where he was named the Toros’ Student-Athlete of the Year and Team MVP. He was the conference batting champion his junior year. Bergeron finished his eligibility in 1994 with Loyola Marymount, where he earned All-West Coast Conference recognition. He eventually signed a free-agent contract with the Houston Astros in 1995.
Bergeron earned his bachelor’s degree in physical education from Cal State Dominguez Hills in 1993 and his master’s degree in the same subject from Azusa Pacific in 1997. He and his wife, Anne Marie, are the proud parents of twin daughters, Nicole and Natalie, and son, Brooks.
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