Baseball

Evan Wise
Evan Wise
Evan Wise joined Wake Forest in July 2019 and is working as the Pitching Lab Coordinator with the Wake Forest Baseball team. His responsibilities include collecting and analyzing biomechanical data, and using it to prepare throwing plans for Wake Forest's pitchers.

Before coming to Wake Forest, Wise worked at 108 Performance Academy in Tustin, California, where he was the summer director of pitching to educate pitchers on kinematics and pitch metrics.

Wise previously spent 2018 as an Area Supervisor for the New York Mets with scouting responsibilities in Southern California. 

Before that, Wise was pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for four seasons at Lenoir Rhyne, where the team finished fifth nationally in strikeouts per nine innings in 2017, and he coached the league's pitcher of the year, Thomas St. Clair. He helped six pitchers sign pro contracts with MLB organizations in his time there. He also oversaw all aspects of the program's strength and conditioning.

Wise was an assistant coach at South Carolina-Sumter for four seasons from 2010-14, where the team tallied a 2.68 ERA, best in program history.

He also spent four years as the head coach of the Gastonia Grizzlies in the Coastal Plain League from 2014-17, winning the league title in his final season. Before that, he served as head coach for the Rockbridge Rapids of the Valley Baseball League in 2012 and the Morganton Aggies of the Southern Collegiate Baseball League in 2011.

Wise played at Lenoir Rhyne, where he received a bachelor's degree in history in 2009.