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Buck
Taylor
Head
Coach
8th year at Palomar, 3rd as head coach
A.A., MiraCosta
College, 1992; B.S.,San Francisco State University,
1995, M.A., Azusa Pacific University, 2001
Buck Taylor, who enters his eighth season on the
Palomar baseball staff and his third as head coach,
guided the Comets to a 25-18 last season. He has a
two-year record of 56-34 record with one Pacific Coast
Conference championship in his two years at Palomar's
helm. Taylor became the first coach in the
history of the Pacific Coast Conference to be named
conference Coach of the Year in his initial season.
Taylor formerly was
associate head coach on Bob Vetter's staff. During that
time period, the Comets captured three PCC titles and,
in 2005, won the conference title, the Southern
California Super Regionals and advanced to the
California Community College Final Four in Fresno,
finishing as runners-up to Santa Rosa.
Taylor
originally joined the Palomar staff as catching coach
and also has served as pitching coach, was elevated to
associate head coach and ran the offense on Vetter's
staff.
Prior to
coming to Palomar, Taylor was an assistant coach and
later co-head coach at his alma mater, San Francisco
State University, from 1995-2000.
Taylor
played and managed professionally in Vienna,
Austria, for the Vienna Lions, guiding the Lions to a
championship in 1996. He also was an assistant coach for
the Austrian National Team. He played two seasons at San
Francisco State as a catcher and middle infielder. Prior
to that, he played on the community college level at
Rancho Santiago (now Santa Ana College) and for the late
John Seeley at MiraCosta College. He prepped at Carlsbad
High School, helping the Lancers to a CIF-San Diego
Section championship
in 1989.
Taylor
currently is an associate scout for the Baltimore
Orioles and is an adjunct professor in the Department of
Health and Physical Education at Palomar.
He received
his M.A. degree in physical education and sports
administration from Azusa Pacific University,
his B.S. degree in kinesiology from San Francisco State
iand his A. A.. degree from MiraCosta College.
Taylor and
his wife, Natasha, have two daughters, Finley and
Avery, and reside in Temecula. Taylor enjoys surfing
and playing golf.
e-mail:
ctaylor2@palomar.edu
Ben
Adams
Hitting, Infield Coach, Third-base Coach
4th year at Palomar
A.A., Big Bend (Wash.)
Community College; B.S., Eastern Oregon
University, 1999; M.A., Western Michigan University
Ben
Adams enters his fourth season as an assistant coach for
Palomar baseball. He serves as hitting and infield
coach. While under Adams, the Comets have led the
Pacific Coast Conference in batting average (2005) and
fielding percentage (2005-06-07) each year. This was
highlighted by the 2007’ squad which led the state with
a .980 percentage.
Prior
to Palomar, Adams was Assistant Head Coach at NCAA
Division I Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana,
from 2001-2004. Adams also coached in the Division III
ranks at Kalamazoo College (1999-2000).
Adams has worked numerous
baseball camps at Stanford University, the University of
Kansas, and Western Michigan University.
Adams
began his collegiate playing career at Big Bend
Community College in Moses Lake, Washington. from
1994-1996. He moved on to Eastern Oregon University in
LaGrande, Oregon where he played from 1997-1999.
He
holds a B.S. degree in health / physical education from
Eastern Oregon University and an M.A. degree in physical
education from Western Michigan University.
Adams
also serves as an adjunct physical education instructor
at Palomar.
Tyler
Kincaid
Pitching Coach
3rd year at Palomar
A.A.,
Antelope Valley
College; B.S., San Francisco State University, 2001;
M.A., San Francisco State University
Tyler
Kincaid was hired as Palomar's pitching coach in August
2005, coming to Palomar from San Francisco State
University, where he was pitching coach for the Gators
for three seasons.
Kincaid assisted in leading
the Comets to the 2006 Pacific Coast Conference title
and an overall record of 31-16. Under his guidance, the
Comets’ pitching staff recorded a season ERA of 2.93 (5th
best in the state) and conference ERA of 2.50 (2nd
in PCC). He had one pitcher receive 1st team
All-Conference, 1st team All-Southern
California, and 2nd team All-State honors.
And three other pitchers received All-Conference
Honorable Mention. All nine of the Comets’ sophomore
hurlers received athletic scholarships to 4-year
institutions.
Kincaid guided the 2004 San
Francisco State pitching staff to its first 30-win
season since 1995, the lowest team ERA since 1991 at
4.99, and first back-to-back winning seasons since
1990-91. In his first two seasons, the Gator pitching
staff improved in nearly every statistical category from
the previous season.
Kincaid has spent the past
two summers as the pitching coach for the Chatham A’s of
the prestigious Cape Cod League. In the summer of 2006
he helped guide the A’s staff to the second lowest ERA
in the league. The A’s won 30 games in 2005 advancing to
the Cape League playoffs for the first time since 2001.
Also in 2005, Kincaid had the pleasure of coaching
current Detroit Tiger, Andrew Miller – who received the
honors of Most Outstanding Pro Prospect and Most
Outstanding Pitcher of the CCBL. And under Kincaid’s
guidance, a Chatham A was named pitcher of the week six
times over the course of the two summers.
Kincaid spent the summer of
2004 as the pitching coach for the Wenatchee AppleSox of
the Pacific International League. The AppleSox captured
the International Division Championship, with a number
of their pitching staff receiving 1st and 2nd
Team All-League honors.
After two seasons as a
pitcher on the community college level at Antelope
Valley College,
Kincaid moved on to San Francisco State as a junior.
There, he was 5-3 as a senior in 2000 with six complete
games and a 1.50 ERA. That was the third lowest
single-season ERA in SFSU history and ranked him fifth
in the nation for Division II. He earned All-CCAA
honorable mention. He left SFSU ranked among the top 10
in career wins (12) and third in ERA at 2.88.
Kincaid pitched professional
baseball briefly for the Rockford (IL) RiverHawks of the
Frontier League.
He holds an Associate of
Arts degree from Antelope Valley Community College,
Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with an emphasis in
Physical Education, Single Subject California Teaching
Credentials, and a Master of Arts in Secondary Education
from San Francisco State University.
Rich
Graves
Outfield Coach; First-Base Coach
2nd year at Palomar
A.A.,
College of the
Sequoias; B.S., Fresno State University, 1972; M.A.,
University of LaVerne
Rich Graves
is in his second season after 32 years at
Martin Luther King High School in Riverside and
Riverside Poly High School. winning 426 games as a head
coach and 10 league championships. Under Graves, the M.L.
King Wolves and Riverside Poly Bears made 20
CIF-Southern Section playoff appearances. Graves' 1998
Poly team was Southern Section runner-up. At Poly,
Graves coached Greg Myers, a third-round draft pick of
the Toronto Blue Jays in 1984 who went on to play 19
years in the Major Leagues with the Blue Jays,
California Angels, Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves, San
Diego Padres, Baltimore Orioles and Oakland A's.
Graves, a
San Diego native who began his high school baseball
career at Lincoln High School and later played for Morse
High School, played baseball on the community college
level at College of the Sequoias, served a stint in the
U.S. Air Force and earned an A.A. degree from COS, a
B.A.degree from Fresno State and an M.A. degree from the
University of La Verne. He's been as associate scout for
the Kansas City Royals since 1993 and, prior to that,
was an associate scout for the San Francisco Giants.
Graves and
his wife Barbara live in Oceanside. Son Ryan Graves
played Division I college baseball for Loyola Marymount
University and Oklahoma State and currently is the
pitching coach at the University of Kansas.
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