CANYON, Texas – West Texas A&M head baseball coach Matt Vanderburg announced the hiring of Kevin Frady and Cory Hall as assistant baseball coaches for 2015-16. 
 
Frady comes to WT from Maryville University in St. Louis, Mo., where he was the team hitting, catching and bench coach for the Saints this past season.  Maryville is a NCAA Division II school competing in the Great Lakes Valley Conference.
 
Prior to joining the Saints, Frady spent the 2014 season as the assistant coach in the Kansas Jayhawk League with Independence Community College.  There, the Pirates saw a nine-game win improvement from the 2013 season prior to Frady's arrival. 
 
He spent the summer coaching the Kitsap BlueJackets of the West Coast Collegiate League where the BlueJackets improved 13 games from the previous season.  University of San Francisco's, Ryan Matranga, saw a 100-point improvement in his batting average under Frady as Matranga earned all-conference honors behind the dish.
 
Frady was head coach at Wenatchee Valley Community College in 2011 and was an assistant coach at the University of Kansas from 2006-2010 under head coach Ritch Price.  While at Kansas, Frady helped lead the Jayhawks to the Corvallis Regional in 2006 and the Chapel Hill regional in 2009.  Frady coached first base and worked on skill development with the catchers.  A total of 26 players were drafted during Frady's time at Kansas. 
 
He was the area scouting supervisor for the New York Mets from 1999-2001 and evaluated amateur prospects for the annual draft.  Frady also served as assistant coach at Edmonds Community College (Wash.) from 1996-98.  While at Edmonds, 11 players were selected into the annual Major League Baseball draft.
 
A native of Edmonds, Washington, Frady earned his bachelor's degree in leadership studies from Bellevue University.
 
Buff fans will remember Cory Hall as he was an assistant coach for Vanderburg from 2008 to 2013.  Hall then stepped away from baseball for two years before returning to WT this summer. 
 
Hall was instrumental in the building of the Buffalo baseball program under Vanderburg throughout his first stint with the Buffs as he continually helped get the pitching staff better each year.  He worked with the likes of Dylan James who had an outstanding career for the Buffs earning multiple All-America accolades and now pitches in the Houston Astros organization. 
 
Prior to being hired at WT, Hall served as head coach at New Mexico Junior College in 2008 as head coach leading the team to a WJCAC conference championship and a 45-10 record.  The team ranked in the top five nationally and a 3.43 ERA.  He earned WJCAC Coach of the Year and had three players drafted.  Hall also was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at NMJC and finished as national runner-up at the 2007 JUCO World Series.  Overall, he had 11 pitchers drafted from NMJC.
 
Both Hall and Vanderburg were on staff together at Clarendon College.  During the 2002 and 2003 seasons, Hall served as pitching coach and recruiting coordinator and was elevated to head coach for the 2004 and 2005 seasons. 
 
In his first year as head coach, his club finished 43-13, recording the most wins in school history, won the division, were ranked in the top 10 in the nation marking the first national ranking in program history.  The team led the nation in batting average at .374.  During his two seasons as head coach, Hall had 21 players sign to play at the university level, eight at Division I.  He had eight players drafted or sign professional contracts during that time.
 
Prior to Clarendon, Hall began coaching at his alma mater Northwestern Oklahoma State.  While at NWOSU, he served as pitching coach for three seasons (1999-2001) and played a vital role in turning around a program that had not had a winning season in several years.
 
During that time, the team complied three winning seasons with a combined record of 104-53.  In his third season, the team finished with a 49-12 record and was ranked as high as seventh nationally, breaking the school-record for wins in a season and qualifying for the regional tournament for the first time in program history.