Pikeville Bears Hitting and Pitching

Meet one of your instructors Tyler Russell enters his first season as an assistant coach with UPIKE Baseball in 2022.
Prior to UPIKE, Russell spent a season at MSC counterpart Lindsey Wilson College where he served as assistant coach under Andreychuk in 2020.
Russell was a pitcher for the Blue Raiders during the 2016 and 2018 baseball seasons. In 2016, he helped lead Lindsey Wilson to the NAIA World Series while accumulating a 7-3 overall pitching record. His 16 starts during that year is currently second all-time on the LWC baseball single season starts list, while his 91.1 innings pitched during the season currently ranks tied for ninth all-time on the LWC baseball single season innings pitched list. Russell managed a 7-4 overall record in 2018 through 81 innings pitched.
Along with his career at Lindsey Wilson, Russell also served as a pitcher for NCAA DI member Eastern Michigan University in 2014. He was also a member of the Palomar College baseball team in 2015.
Russell’s experience also includes a stint as the pitching coach for the Palm Springs Snowbirds in the Palm Springs Collegiate Summer League in 2019. He was also the Vista Murrieta High School varsity pitching coach in 2019-20.
A native of Murrieta, California, Russell earned his bachelor's degree in Communication from Lindsey Wilson in 2019.

Meet one of your instructors Cody Andreychuk began his tenure as the Head Coach of UPIKE Baseball in July of 2021.
The University of Pikeville baseball team is coming off a season in which it showed tremendous growth which led to it establishing three records for the just-completed era of its time in the Mid-South Conference.
The Bears joined the Mid-South Conference in 2001, and in that span, it had never won as many league games, stolen as many bases or hit as many home runs in a single season.
Prior to UPIKE, Andreychuk spent four seasons with fellow Mid-South Conference member Lindsey Wilson College, taking a position as assistant coach with the program in 2017-18 before becoming the head coach. In his three seasons as head coach, Andreychuk helped coach seven All-MSC athletes, and a 2019-20 squad that was named an NAIA Scholar Team.
Before heading to Columbia, Andreychuk served on the UPIKE baseball staff as an assistant to former head coach Jim Pitt for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. The Bears’ 27 wins in 2017 are the most since 2001, and culminated in an appearance at the MSC Tournament Final Site in Bowling Green, KY.
Before UPIKE, Andreychuk served as an assistant coach for the Hyannis Harbor Hawks in Cape Cod where he was in charge of hitting instruction and directed camp activities.
His playing career began at CCBC Vancouver Island University where he spent two seasons, managing to set the school record with a .337 batting average and roped eight triples to claim the single season program record. Andreychuk earned all-conference distinctions in both seasons, getting a second team nod in 2012 and making first team in 2013.
Following Vancouver Island, Andreychuk spent a season with the Kelowna Falcons of the West Coast League and racked up a solid .299 average in 130 at-bats before moving on to NCAA DII Tusculum College. In his junior season, Andreychuk batted an impressive .438, and was named pre-season all-conference prior to his senior season.
Andreychuk graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Sports Management from Tusculum University. Andreychuk resides in Pikeville with his daughter, Harper.

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