Angelo State Rams baseball

The baseball program at Angelo State was resurrected in 2005 after a long hiatus due to continued student requests and support.

The Rams are the fastest team in NCAA history to start a program and advance to the D2 World Series by doing so in their 3rd year (2007).

San Angelo is home to two high functioning baseball facilities, which Brooks and his team are very interested in.

Foster Field was constructed in 2000, and features 4,200 seats, a Triple-A lighting system and an inning-by-inning scoreboard with a video display.

In 2015 2.1 million dollars of renovations were made to the facility, including adding an AstroTurf playing field, all new blue chair back seats, and padding the outfield wall.

For his efforts in 2007, Brooks earned the Sportsman of the Year award from the San Angelo Standard-Times for his outstanding leadership and success on the field.

Paxton DeLaGarza, Steve Naemark, Blake Bass and J.C. Snyder were each named All-Americans, and David Goggin earned the Lone Star Conference Academic Player of the Year, and was named the NCAA DII Baseball ELITE 89 winner for having the best GPA at the National Finals.

[citation needed] The Rams finished 2021 with the first of four trips in a row to the NCAA Division II College World Series.

They advanced to the NCAA Division II College World Series for the second year in a row, exiting in the second round with a record of 1–2.

The final DII baseball Power 10 rankings of 2023 listed Angelo State as #1, and the team never slipped below No.

However, the player experience and the coaching prowess of Kevin Brooks helped the Rams dominate the South Central Regional Tournament, going undefeated (beating Colorado Mesa once and West Texas A&M twice) on route to the South Central Super Regional against Lubbock Christian.