Rusty Stroupe
Rusty Stroupe is an American college baseball coach and former shortstop. Stroupe was the head coach of the Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs baseball team from 2003 to 2019.Stroupe played shortstop at Cherryville High School, and earned a scholarship to play at Appalachian State University for the Mountaineers baseball program from 1983 to 1986.Coaching career
After taking a teaching position after college graduation, Stroupe began to coach middle school baseball. In 1990, Stroupe was an assistant coach at Appalachian State. Stroupe took his first coaching position at North Greenville College in 1991. In 1993, Stroupe became the head coach at Brevard College. From 1998 to 2002, Stroupe was the head coach at Lander University, where he started the baseball program.
In the summer of 2002, Stroupe to the head coaching position at Gardner–Webb. On April 17, 2019, Stroupe announced that he would be retiring at the end of the 2019 season.Head coaching record
