 Jeff Livin, head baseball coach, is beginning his fourteenth season at Angelina College. Before arriving at AC, Coach Livin was the head coach at Wayland Baptist University from 1991-1995.
He was elected as the Sooner Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1995. Prior to that, he served as an assistant coach at Southwest Texas State University and Southwestern University.
Coach Livin played collegiate ball at Southwestern University. He was selected in the 15th round of the 1984 draft and played for the Houston Astros organization for four years.
Livin’s Roadrunners have averaged more than 30 wins per season since 2003; AC was a conference co-champion in 2005 following a 46-14 season.
In his tenure at Angelina College Coach Livin has had 28 players selected in the major league draft; thus far, seventeen former Roadrunners have gone on to play professional ball. In 2005 Coach Livin was honored as Region XIV North Coach of the Year; and in 2008, he was inducted into the Clarinda A’s Hall of Fame.
Coach Livin and his wife Cindy have three children, Cassidy, Jessie, and Tanner.
 Richard Martinez, assistant baseball coach, is beginning his fourth season at Angelina College. Martinez attended AC from 2001 until 2002 before transferring to Texas State University, where he graduated in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Sports & Science.
Martinez played for the Roadrunners during 2001 and 2002, hitting a combined .346 for the two seasons. In 2002 he hit .401 in 182 AB’s. He earned All-Conference and First Team All-Region as well as Defensive Player of the Year. Martinez was a member of the TSU baseball team in 2003 – 2004, and served as a student assistant in 2005.
 Gary Stallard, Sports Information Director and Marketing & Development Coordinator, is in his third season as SID at Angelina College. Following a career as a U.S. Marine, Stallard completed his bachelor’s degree at Stephen F. Austin University, where he majored in English and Journalism. Over the past seven years, he has worked as a sports writer/columnist/photographer for the Lufkin Daily News, with which he covered AC basketball, among other sports. Stallard has won several awards for writing, including the Golden Hoops Award for basketball writing in 2003, Regional Sports Writer of the Year in 2004, and the Texas Press Association’s first-place award for column writing in 2007.
Stallard also taught English at Lufkin High School for four years before assuming his role at AC. He has two daughters, Jaime’ and Jordan, and lives in Lufkin.
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