'15 Rick Mathews
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- Title:
- Head Coach
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- Year:
- 2015
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- Position:
- Pitcher, guard
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- Team:
- Baseball, Basketball
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- IHCC Years:
- 1965-67, 1986-92
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- Career Highlights:
- Two-sport athlete • Undefeated pitching record • Drake University • 1992 JUCO World Series • Colorado Rockies Scout
Mathews played two seasons of both baseball and basketball for the Falcons and later coached the baseball team for six seasons, following up his IHCC coaching tenure with a long, successful career in professional baseball. A pitcher, Mathews was undefeated for the Golden Falcons over a two-year span. He also played on the Centerville Community College basketball team for two seasons. Then, after playing baseball for two years at Drake University, he embarked on a coaching career that began with stops at high schools in Eddyville and Marshalltown. He later led Iowa Western CC to three JUCO World Series trips in five years at the Council Bluffs school. Mathews, a native of Cincinnati, Iowa, worked part-time during the summer for the Kansas City Royals, and later was a minor league manager and worked in player development for the Royals before taking the head baseball coaching job at Indian Hills in 1986. His IHCC teams had a winning percentage of nearly .700 in six seasons and the Falcons finished fifth after qualifying for the 1992 JUCO World Series. Over the ensuing two-plus decades, Mathews served in a variety of roles for the Colorado Rockies front office.