Clint Stroud joined the McKendree University baseball coaching staff in the fall of 2018. Stroud will serve as the Bearcats' pitching coach.
Stroud comes to McKendree after serving as the director of baseball operations at his alma mater, Illinois State. He handled several different aspects of the Redbirds’ program, including day-to-day operations, coordinating community service initiatives, managing all aspects of the team’s baseball camps and helping with the Redbird Dugout Club fundraising efforts. Also during that time, Stroud was a baseball camp on-field coordinator for Illinois State.
In the summer of 2016, Stroud was a pitching coach in the Midwest Collegiate League, a summer baseball league for collegiate players. He was instrumental in the development Mitch Weis, the MCL’s Pitcher of the Year. Stroud was also as an assistant coach at Illinois State in 2014-15, serving as bullpen and first base coach on Mark Kingston’s staff while assisting with the development of the Redbirds’ pitchers.
As a player, Stroud spent two seasons at Illinois State after beginning his collegiate career at Heartland. At Heartland, he set single-season records with 12 saves and a 0.39 earned-run average while helping the program to consecutive National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) World Series appearances in 2011 and 2012. Stroud earned both his bachelor’s degree (2015) and master’s degree (2017) from Illinois State.
