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From a Notre Dame release on fall baseball:

Fall Baseball Practice Report #2 (Graham Sikes)
Newcomer to the Irish coaching staff reports on his new position at Notre Dame, which includes working on a daily basis with the team's catchers.

Oct. 11, 2007



Notre Dame baseball volunteer assistant coach Graham Sikes is the next to stop by und.com with a practice report update, to be followed over the next few days by assistant coaches Sherard Clinkscales and Scott Lawler (in advance of the Blue-Gold intrasquad series, to be held on Oct. 16-18). Sikes joined the Irish staff in June, after spending the previous season at James Madison University.

Sikes was an assistant coach at JMU in the 2007 season and helped instruct the Dukes hitters while working directly with the catchers, the position he played at Liberty University. He had been promoted to recruiting coordinator at JMU three weeks before accepting the invitation to join Dave Schrage's staff at Notre Dame. Sikes previously was the recruiting coordinator, hitting coach and catchers' coach at Young Harris (Ga.) College in 2005-06, helping guide a Mountain Lions team that racked up 48 wins while being ranked eighth among the nation's junior college teams.

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Graham Sikes Hired As Assistant Baseball Coach
Sikes has coached seven years in college baseball, including the last three seasons at Notre Dame


Graham Sikes

July 19, 2010

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State head baseball coach Jake Boss has announced the hiring of Graham Sikes as assistant coach.

And here is a little about his Flames experience where he still remains one of our greatest backstops ever IMHO ...

Sikes was a four-year letterman at Liberty in Lynchburg, Va., helping lead the Flames to a pair of Big South Conference championships and two NCAA Regional appearances. During his career as the Flames' catcher, Sikes threw out better than 50 percent of attempted base-stealers. He started behind the plate for the team's win over Seton Hall in the South Atlantic Regional, producing the school's first NCAA Tournament victory in any sport.

During his senior season, Liberty finished among the nation's top-10 leaders in nearly every offensive statistic, as the Flames hit .337 with 86 home runs, 30 triples, 151 doubles and 111 stolen bases. Twenty-four of his Liberty teammates went on to careers in professional baseball.

Sikes earned his undergraduate degree from Liberty in 2002 and went on to earn a master's degree in health and physical education from Emporia (Kan.) State University in 2006.

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