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Rich Witten

Induction 2018

DHS Class of 2007

Football- Baseball - Basketball

Athlete

Baseball
1st Team Louisville Slugger All-American -2007
All State Baseball Team 2006 & 2007
Mr. Baseball finalist 2007
Member of East/West KY All Star Team 2006 & 2007
Top 10 or better in nine KHSAA Baseball Records
Career Home Runs =63 ranks 2nd
Season Home Runs =25 ranks 2nd
Career RBI =235 ranks 3rd
RBI Season = 65 ranks 8th
Highest Career Batting Avg. = .503 ranks 7th
Highest Season Batting Avg. = .607 ranks 6th
Season Walks = 42 ranks 5th
Season Wins = 13 ranks 4th
Career Strikeouts = 403 ranks 10th
Advocate Messenger Athlete of the Year 2006 (have 2007 on one report)
Member of the DHS All Century Baseball Team

Signed Scholarship to Coastal Carolina University
Witten boasts a solid playing career at Coastal Carolina University, which saw him post a .316 career batting average. He recorded 50 doubles that stands seventh among the programs’ career leaders. He also drove home 158 runs, which ranks as the sixth-best total in program annals.
He earned first team All-Big South honors as a senior in 2012 and made three Big South All-Tournament teams from 2010 through 2012. Witten played in five NCAA Regionals and two Super Regionals. He was a part of 230 wins in his career, which ties him for the top spot all-time in Coastal Carolina history.
Witten graduated from Coastal Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in exercise and sport science and a minor in psychology.

Head Coach at Florida International University
Assistant Coach at Virginia Commonwealth University, Winthrop University, University of Miami
Director of Baseball Operations at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in 2013.


Football
All State Team 2006 & 2007

Basketball
One year letterman

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