Bio

In July of 2021, Mike Ross was promoted to athletic director for Science & Arts, after a long run as the winningest baseball coach in the program's illustrious history. Ross hung his cap after 18 seasons with the Drovers baseball team; as head coach for 13 seasons after five seasons as assistant coach. 

As head coach, Ross put together a 460-197 (.700) career win-loss record, and was named the Sooner Athletic Conference Coach of the Year five times. He led the program to four SAC regular-season championships, four SAC Tournament championships and six NAIA Baseball National Championship – Opening Round appearances. 

In 2019, Ross led the Drovers to the national semi-final game where they closed the season as the No. 3 team in the NAIA. In the 2020 NAIA Coaches' Preseason Top 25 Poll, the Drovers were ranked as the No. 2 team in the country, and they received their first No. 1 vote in program history.

A native of nearby Union City, Ross played at Redlands Community College and later at Graceland College in Iowa where he served as the team's captain both his junior and senior year. He set the school record for saves in both 1998 and again in 1999 while earning all-conference honors.

He earned his bachelor's degree in history from Science & Arts in 2002 and his master's of sports science in sports coaching from the United State Sports Academy in 2009.