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Bay Area native and former NCAA Division II Player of the Year Harmen Sidhu was named the Head Baseball Coach in August 2023. Sidhu most recently spent two seasons as the associate head coach and pitching coach at Diablo Valley College. He guided the pitching staff to finishing top 5 in California in strikeouts and ERA. Additionally, Vikings pitchers broke the school’s 23 year old single season strike out record with 391 strikeouts. The Vikings also made the playoffs for the first time in nearly 10 years.Before DVC, Sidhu spent two seasons at the University of California, Berkeley. There he mentored 10 MLB draft picks; including Dylan Beavers (Round 1), Sean Sullivan, Ian Villers, Grant Holman, Josh White, Joseph King and more. Overall, Sidhu had 5 pitchers drafted in the top 10 rounds under his tutelage.Prior to Cal, Berkeley, Sidhu was an assistant coach on at Holy Names University in 2019, where he guided the Hawks' pitching staff to vast improvements from the previous season. Hawks pitchers saw their collective earned run average drop from 7.45 to 5.59, WHIP from 2.04 to 1.74 and walks issued from 258 to 137 during conference play. Sidhu additionally mentored a pair of all-region and all-conference pitchers in Garrett O'Callaghan and Joshua Nelson, the former of which became the program's first All-PacWest Conference First Team and All-West Region Second Team selection.Sidhu's collegiate playing career started at Diablo Valley College, where he played two years and earned All-BIG 8 First Team honors and was part of a team that finished third in California. Sidhu later transferred to Oregon State and then Sonoma State, where he developed into one of NCAA Division II's premier players.As a senior at Sonoma State, Sidhu garnered the 2013 Tino Martinez Award, which is annually presented to the most outstanding player in NCAA Division II baseball. The right-handed pitcher sported a 10-1 record, 93 strikeouts and a nation-leading 0.98 ERA over 82.2 innings of work during his final season. He was also named the 2012-13 California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year and broke CCAA records for single-season ERA and career ERA (1.56). Sidhu was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 20th round of the 2013 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft following his senior season.Sidhu grew up in the East Bay and attended College Park High School in Pleasant Hill, where he led the Falcons to their first North Coast Section Championship and was an All-Diablo Foothill Athletic League and All-Bay Area First Team player. He graduated from Sonoma State Magna Cum Laude in 2013 and completed his master's degree in 2019, graduating Magna Cum Laude from the University of the Southwest in New Mexico with a M.S. in Exercise Science & Biomechanics |
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Assistant Coach: Sparky Bray |
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Assistant Coach: Cliff Coleman |
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Assistant Coach: Don Dennett |
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Assistant Coach: Jarron Robertson |
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Brian Powelson - Athletic Trainer |
Harmen Sidhu- Head Coach