Matt Tramel
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Operations Assistant
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First Season
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Matt Tramel is in his first season at Washington State and is the Cougar Baseball Operations Assistant. He brings over a decade of coaching experience to the Palouse.
At Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan., Tramel led the Swedes to 201 victories and a .710 winning percentage in five seasons (2004-08) as head coach. Bethany captured Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference regular season titles in 2005 and 2007 and the KCAC Tournament championship in 2008. The Swedes appeared in a NAIA regional in four-straight years (2005-08).
Tramel won the KCAC Coach of the Year award three times in his five seasons at Bethany and his 2005 squad set a school record for victories in a season with 41.
In 2002-03, Tramel was an assistant coach at Iowa (Council Bluffs) Western Community College. The Reivers won 85 games over the two seasons, finished runner-up in Region XI in 2002 and were ranked as high at 14th nationally in 2003.
Tramel was an assistant coach at Northwestern Oklahoma (Alva) State from 1997-2001. In his final season with the Rangers, the team set a school record with 49 victories and advanced to the NAIA Region VI Tournament.
A member of the NAIA Ratings Committee (2004-05), Tramel has coached over 25 players who have gone on to sign a professional contract. He and his wife TeAna, an assistant coach with WSU volleyball, are the parents of twins Brooks and McKinlee.
