Troy University Athletics
Baseball
Ethan Landon
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- elandon@troy.edu
- Phone:
- 5945
Ethan Landon begins his second season as an assistant coach for the Trojans coming off a berth in an NCAA Regional and a 40-win season.
Landon helped produce a pair of All-Sun Belt pitchers in Noah Manning (second) and Grayson Stewart (first) – Manning led the conference in saves at 11. He also coached Ben Thompson (fourth), Stewart (sixth) and Zach Fruit (seventh) into ranking in the top 10 in strikeouts in the Sun Belt and, overall, the program to a record-breaking 10.6 strikeouts per nine innings to lead the league and rank 11th in the nation. His teachings would also help Fruit to be drafted by the Baltimore Orioles and Thompson to sign with the Los Angeles Angels.
Registering a career 3.98 ERA with 14 career wins over 72 appearances with 39 starts, Landon began his career at Kansas State, where he posted a 3.26 ERA in 30.1 IP in 24 appearances, leading all Big 12 freshmen in the category. He led the Wildcat pitching staff in appearances, logging 10 strikeouts and holding opponents to a .257 batting average.
Landon transferred to Michigan State in 2015 and led the Spartan pitching staff in 2016 with eight wins, going 8-3 with a 2.75 ERA in 15 starts and 85.0 innings pitched. He was the only pitcher to win six Big Ten games (won six of eight Big Ten starts), which is the most by any pitcher in school history, and led the conference When he was not competing in the Big 10, he was the TCL Summer League pitcher of the year with a 7-0 record and 0.92 ERA, including the league’s only career playoff no-hitter in 2015. The following year he pitched for the Harwich Mariners in the Cape Cod Baseball League. Prior to Troy, Landon was part of the Motor City Hit Dogs in Michigan and the GRB Rays out of Wisconsin, where his first team with Motor City produced seven DI commits.
Landon earned first team all-region and all-state as a sophomore and junior at Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, S.D.,where he went 5-1 with a 0.88 ERA and 43 strikeouts against 11 walks in his junior year in 2012 and was named all-state and all-region in his sophomore year as a first baseman after batting .425 (17-for-40) with a .531 OBP. Landon helped lead the team to state runner-up in 2011 and set the school record for career wins.
Landon helped produce a pair of All-Sun Belt pitchers in Noah Manning (second) and Grayson Stewart (first) – Manning led the conference in saves at 11. He also coached Ben Thompson (fourth), Stewart (sixth) and Zach Fruit (seventh) into ranking in the top 10 in strikeouts in the Sun Belt and, overall, the program to a record-breaking 10.6 strikeouts per nine innings to lead the league and rank 11th in the nation. His teachings would also help Fruit to be drafted by the Baltimore Orioles and Thompson to sign with the Los Angeles Angels.
Registering a career 3.98 ERA with 14 career wins over 72 appearances with 39 starts, Landon began his career at Kansas State, where he posted a 3.26 ERA in 30.1 IP in 24 appearances, leading all Big 12 freshmen in the category. He led the Wildcat pitching staff in appearances, logging 10 strikeouts and holding opponents to a .257 batting average.
Landon transferred to Michigan State in 2015 and led the Spartan pitching staff in 2016 with eight wins, going 8-3 with a 2.75 ERA in 15 starts and 85.0 innings pitched. He was the only pitcher to win six Big Ten games (won six of eight Big Ten starts), which is the most by any pitcher in school history, and led the conference When he was not competing in the Big 10, he was the TCL Summer League pitcher of the year with a 7-0 record and 0.92 ERA, including the league’s only career playoff no-hitter in 2015. The following year he pitched for the Harwich Mariners in the Cape Cod Baseball League. Prior to Troy, Landon was part of the Motor City Hit Dogs in Michigan and the GRB Rays out of Wisconsin, where his first team with Motor City produced seven DI commits.
Landon earned first team all-region and all-state as a sophomore and junior at Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, S.D.,where he went 5-1 with a 0.88 ERA and 43 strikeouts against 11 walks in his junior year in 2012 and was named all-state and all-region in his sophomore year as a first baseman after batting .425 (17-for-40) with a .531 OBP. Landon helped lead the team to state runner-up in 2011 and set the school record for career wins.
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