Middle Tennessee State University Baseball

Meyers has enjoyed immense success in his baseball career both as head coach at Old Dominion for six years, and as a longtime assistant at South Carolina, where he served as Pitching Coach and Associate Head Coach for 15 seasons during two separate stints. He has spent the last three years as an Assistant Athletic Director at South Carolina.

Meyers developed 17 All-American pitchers during his time at South Carolina, where his pitching staffs generally ranked near the top of the SEC and nationally, in wins, earned run average, strikeouts and WHIP. Several of his former collegiate pitchers have reached the professional ranks.

Meyers won 167 games in six seasons as Head Coach at Old Dominion, and he was also instrumental in the success of some of South Carolina’s most successful teams. South Carolina reached the College World Series six times during Meyers’ tenure as pitching coach. The Gamecocks won the national championship in 2011 and also reached the CWS championship game two other times (2002, 2012) with Meyers as Pitching Coach.

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT JERRY MEYERS…

Ray Tanner, South Carolina AD, former HC at South Carolina
Jerry Meyers is a national championship pitching coach. He is among the best in all of college baseball. The impact that he will have on the MTSU pitching staff will be immediate.  Jim Toman has always been respected as one of the great recruiters in college baseball, and in Coach Meyers, he has added a coach who will develop and mentor student-athletes to excel and reach new heights.

Tim Corbin, Head Baseball Coach, Vanderbilt
Jerry has always been one of the premier pitching coaches in the country. When you look at the South Carolina teams that he was a part of, pitching success was paramount, and he had a lot to do with that. At the heart of it, Jerry has a teacher’s spirit for pitching. He is a very good instructor.

Getzelman joins the Blue Raiders after serving as the Assistant Hitting Coordinator for the Milwaukee Brewers over the past two seasons and will take over as the Middle Tennessee hitting coach for the upcoming 2022 season.

Prior to working at the pro-level, Getzelman served as the Director of Hitting Development and Hitting, Analysis & Operations at Dallas Baptist University for both the 2018 and 2019 season. During his pair of seasons in Dallas the team hit .290 and made back-to-back NCAA Regional appearances.

Getzelman began his coaching career in 2017 as a Volunteer Assistant at William Jessup University, located in Rocklin, California.

In 2016, Getzelman played in the outfield at Kennesaw State before finishing his playing career at Menlo College. While at Menlo, Getzelman was named an NAIA All-American, the GSAC Conference Player of the Year and First Team GSAC All-Conference. His 26 home runs and 66 RBI set the school’s record in 2017.

The Crystal Lake, Illinois native started his collegiate career at the University of Missouri where he received a medical redshirt before transferring to Iowa Western Community College in 2015.