Casey Myers takes position with San Diego Padres

[RunInRed 19,677]

Casey Myers To Take Position With San Diego Padres

SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Volunteer assistant softball coach Casey Myers will be leaving the Auburn softball program to take a position with the San Diego Padres starting this month.

Myers, who spent the previous two seasons with the Auburn softball team coaching under his father, head coach Clint Myers, and with his brother, assistant coach Corey Myers, returns to the ranks of professional baseball where he spent five seasons as a hitting coach in Minor League Baseball with the Oakland Athletics organization and eight seasons as a player in the same system.

"It's been an unbelievable experience here at Auburn," Myers said. "It's probably one of the most fulfilling times of my life. I've been able to work with Coach (Clint Myers) for the last eight years in some capacity prior to Auburn and then to add Corey (Myers), it was great. The whole family was together for the first time in a long time. The nieces, the nephews, the aunts and the uncles were all together for the first time in my lifetime and it was great to come to a place like Auburn that promotes the `family' aspect of life."

Myers was a key component in helping revive and reboot an Auburn softball program that saw nearly every offensive record in program history get broken along with the Tigers' first appearance in the Women's College World Series.

The Arizona native guided Auburn's hitters to a combined .323 batting average over the last two years, well over the .300 mark in each of those seasons and the highest since 2005. The .323 team average last year set the new program record for highest team batting average in a season and made Auburn one of the best offenses in the nation as it slugged 99 home runs and 474 RBI, both program records as well.

With Myers' instruction, Auburn produced six All-Americans over two seasons with Emily Carosone and Kasey Cooper becoming the Tigers' first two-time All-Americans. Branndi Meleroand Tiffany Howard also brought in All-American seasons, giving Auburn more All-Americans in the last two years than it had in its entire program history prior to 2014.

"I want to personally thank everybody at Auburn, especially Jay Jacobs for giving me and the family an opportunity to come here and be a part of something special. It was fantastic." Myers said. "You hear about things like this and you give it lip service sometimes. Until you are a part of it, you don't realize how special it is."

Myers will join San Diego Padres manager Andy Green, who is entering his first season as the Padres skipper

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[around4ever 4,140]

Tough loss for this team, but a great opportunity for Casey. He is a very good hitting coach and should be successful at the MLB level after he gets softball out of his mind. I hope Coach Myers can find another hitting coach as good as Casey was and as good with the girls as Casey was. I wish Casey the very best in his new position.

[AU64 10,122]

Tough loss for this team, but a great opportunity for Casey. He is a very good hitting coach and should be successful at the MLB level after he gets softball out of his mind. I hope Coach Myers can find another hitting coach as good as Casey was and as good with the girls as Casey was. I wish Casey the very best in his new position.

Volunteer coach....guess a guy like him can't coach for free forever. Hope he does well and finds his way back to AU and his family....maybe part of Thompson's staff some day.

[Mikey 16,781]

Good for him, but I do hate to see such a successful staff lose even one member.