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 Also beginning his sixth season
with the Falcon coaching staff, Bud Murray
is also the father of head coach Kodee
Murray. Coach Murray has been a coach at the
high school, junior college and Division I
level, as well as with college semi-pro and
women’s professional fastpitch teams. His
experiences with both baseball and softball
spans over 47 years, which makes him a
valuable addition to the Falcon staff. While
the head baseball coach at Hart High School,
Murray led his teams to 26 league titles and
they won the 1999 CIF Southern Section
Division II Championship. Upon his
retirement from the school, Murray had his
number (30) retired and the field was
renamed in his honor. Four years ago, he was
named the California Baseball Coach of the
Year, while he compiled an amazing 516-176
record during his 39 years of coaching high
school and junior college baseball.
In addition to coaching at Hart
High, Murray also spent time at Los Angeles
Pierce College, Mission College, Cal State
Northridge and the Wenatchee Apple Sox, a
minor league baseball team in Washington. He
also spent time as the Tampa Bay Fire Stix
assistant coach, which is a women’s
fastpitch softball team.
A former
professional baseball player himself, Murray
spent 4½ years (1955-59) with the Brooklyn
Dodgers as a pitcher. Upon graduation from
high school in Scottsbluff, NE, where he
lettered in football, basketball and track,
Murray transferred to Nebraska State College
on a basketball scholarship. His high school
did not have a baseball team, so he spent
his extra time playing American Legion
baseball. In 1955, Murray earned All-State
honors in basketball after his team won the
state championship. In the finals, Murray
scored a record 33 points. While at Nebraska
State College, Murray earned his Bachelor’s
and Master’s degree in Science and was
inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1991. |
