Adam Stevens became the Head Coach of the Aurora University baseball program in May of 2014. Prior to the 2019-2020 year, Stevens was named an Assistant Athletic Director for Student Programming.
Stevens became the program's 17th head coach, coming to AU after serving as the head coach at Central College in Pella, Iowa for the past 11 seasons where he had a 253-193 overall record.
In his time at AU, Stevens has returned the Spartans back to prominence in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference finishing in the top four of the league in every season. In his first five seasons at AU, Stevens' coached teams have averaged over 27 wins per year while improving the record every season. The 35 wins in 2019 is tied for the fourth best single season record in the illustrious history of AU baseball.Â
In 2018, Stevens won his 100th game as Head Coach of the Spartans. The 2018 and 2019 Spartans advanced to the NCAA Tournament with both teams winning the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Tournament to move on to the NCAA Tournament.
Stevens has had two CSC / CoSIDA Academic All-America selections with 2018 seeing Jacob Stockman named a First-Team honoree and in 2019, Jeff Mayes earned Third-Team honors.Â
In 2012, he led Central to the program’s first outright Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) title in 64 years. That same year he was named the D3baseball.com Central Region Coach of the Year. He also received IIAC Coach of the Year in 2005 and 2012, coached the 2006 Academic All-American of the Year, and had 12 All-Region players and two IIAC Players of the Year throughout his tenure.
Prior to becoming the head coach at Central College, Stevens was an assistant coach at Wabash College for one season in 2003 and served as an administrative assistant with the baseball program at Ball State University in 2002.
Stevens graduated from Morningside College in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. While there he was a four-year starter, played in 110 consecutive games and was a team captain his senior year. He then went on to earn a master’s degree in athletic administration from Ball State University in 2003.
