{"id":1427,"date":"2021-07-20T15:40:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2021-10-26T16:41:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T16:41:27","slug":"troy-university-names-skyler-meade-as-new-trojan-baseball-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/07\/20\/troy-university-names-skyler-meade-as-new-trojan-baseball-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University names Skylar Meade as new Trojan Baseball Head Coach."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/coaches\/skylar-meade\/1553\">Skylar Meade<\/a> was introduced to the Trojan nation as the next head coach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\">Trojan Baseball<\/a> program on Thursday afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A press conference was held in the Stadium Club of Veterans Memorial Stadium to welcome Meade to campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meade comes to TROY from the University of South Carolina where he was the pitching coach for the past four years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the introduction of Meade, <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a> unveiled plans for upgrades to Riddle-Pace field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A multi-million dollar renovation plan is in place for  Riddle-Pace. The appearance of the stadium on the outside will be updated and luxury suites and baseball offices will be added as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a> Chancellor Jack Hawkins says that the expectation is to take the team somewhere it has never been before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;With the proper leadership and with the proper investments, then our goal is Omaha,&#8221; says Hawkins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meade says he is excited about what can be accomplished at TROY and is looking forward to having an active fanbase. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I want the entire student body here,&#8221; says Meade.  &#8220;If we can get 10,000 people in the into the park that&#8217;s what we need to do, but I want them to be involved. I want them to be loud. I want them to be rowdy. I&#8217;d like for our stadium to be a place that is a nightmare for other teams to come over the course of a weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For an additional look at artist renderings of the planned Riddle-Pace upgrades you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/galleries\/baseball\/riddle-pace-field-renovation-renderings\/1631\">TroyTrojans.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Simon&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skylar Meade was introduced to the Trojan nation as the next head coach of the Trojan Baseball program on Thursday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>A press conference was held in the Stadium Club of Veterans Memorial Stadium to welcome Meade to campus. <\/p>\n<p>Meade comes to TROY from the University of South Carolina where he was the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/07\/20\/troy-university-names-skyler-meade-as-new-trojan-baseball-head-coach\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[174,62,740,597,66,67],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-dr-jack-hawkins","tag-riddle-pace-field","tag-simon-schuessler","tag-skylar-meade","tag-trojan-athletics","tag-trojan-baseball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}