Cary Lundy, Head Baseball Coach
8th Season
Cary Lundy enters his eighth season as the head baseball coach at Park University as the school’s winningest head baseball coach and the only skipper to total 100 or more wins in his career,
Lundy is 201-142-1 in seven previous seasons at the helm of the Pirate baseball program, including a school-record 34 wins in 2009, surpassing a pair of 30-win seasons for Park also under Lundy’s guidance in 2003 and 2006.
Park opened the season with a school-record 12-0 start under Lundy in 2009, and during the season, his team produced a 16-4 record at home while putting together a 15-5 mark in the program’s final season in the Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference.
The 2009 Pirates appeared in the NAIA Top 25 Coaches Poll and at season’s end, the Pirates had a shot at conference supremacy, but Park fell to Bellevue in the MCAC championship game, 10-4.
Lundy’s Pirates fell just short of postseason competition in 2009 as the last team out of the 2009 Avista-NAIA World Series Opening Round. In all, 2009 produced five First-Team All-MCAC performers, one Rawlings/MCAC Gold Glove Honoree, two Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athletes, seven Honorable Mention All-MCAC selections and the league’s pitcher of the year, Josh Hake.
During the conference tournament, Lundy also picked up his 200th career win, beating York 5-4 on May 5. He then picked up No. 201 that same day, defeating Peru State, 17-4.
In 2008, Lundy managed the team to 28 wins, and the team was one win away from advancing to an NAIA Super Regional, falling to Bellevue University in the NAIA Region IV title game.
Park also played for a shot at the MCAC tournament title in Omaha, Neb., and at the conclusion of the 2008 season, Park had its first player drafted during the Lundy Era when Hake was taken in the 50th round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Philadelphia Phillies.
In 2006, he guided the Pirates to the Region IV Tournament championship game, while in 2007, his Pirates qualified for the tournament, amassing 28 wins and finishing the season seven games above .500.
Before taking over the program in 2003, he served for three seasons as an assistant coach at Park, starting when the program was reinstated in 2000.
During the summer months, Lundy coaches UMB Bank in Kansas City’s prestigious Ban Johnson League, leading his squads to seven league championships. In addition, he has also served as a recommending scout for the Cincinnati Reds organization.
A 1982 graduate of Park and native of Kansas City, Mo., Lundy played baseball, basketball and ran cross country as a Pirate. He has two children, J.D. and Kiely.
Nick Kouratou, Assistant Baseball Coach
1st Season
Nick Kouratou begins his first season as assistant baseball coach in the Park University baseball program, two years after coming to the Pirates in the 2008 season as the club’s two-year starting shortstop.
In his two seasons with the team from 2008 to 2009, Kouratou played and started in 87 games, collecting a .390 career batting average with 115 base hits, including six career home runs, 26 doubles and 88 runs batted in.
Kouratou was an honorable-mention All-MCAC performer in his junior season in 2008, where he was also named All-NAIA Region IV, followed by a senior campaign that was capped by being named the Rawlings/MCAC Gold Glove Shortstop at the end of the 2009 season.
In addition to his on-field accolades during his Park University career, Kouratou was also named to the 2009 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athlete team, earning the NAIA’s highest academic honor after his senior season at Park.
A native of Tucson, Ariz., Kouratou came to the Pirates from Tucson’s Pima Community College, and last May, Kouratou graduated from Park with a degree in Psychology.
Kouratou is engaged to former Park softball player and cheerleader Megan Goings.
Michael Younghanz, Assistant Baseball Coach
2nd Season
Michael Younghanz begins his second season assisting the Park baseball coaching staff, serving as an assistant coach for the 2010 season after finishing his undergraduate degree last May at Park University.
Younghanz played one season for the Pirates, in 2007, hitting .388 with 62 base hits, including eight doubles and seven home runs in 47 games played a third base.
He drove in 36 during his senior season, earning First-Team All-MCAC honors at the end of the 2007 campaign after also earning MCAC Player of the Week honors twice during the regular season.
Following his senior season with the Pirates, Younghanz signed to play professionally with the Pensacola Pelicans, an independent minor league organization in Pensacola, Fla.
Younghanz came to the Pirates from Northwest Missouri State University, where he played and started in 23 games for the Bearcats, driving in 13 runs with a .288 batting average, including four doubles.
A Kansas City native, Younghanz holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Park, and he is currently working on his master’s degree in Entrepreneurship at Park.
