Rick Hitt, ABCA 2nd Vice President and South Florida State College Head Coach

This week, we visit with ABCA Second Vice President Rick Hitt, who is the head baseball coach and Athletic Director at South Florida State College. Hitt organized the 24 main-stage clinic speakers for the Virtual ABCA Convention and serves on the ABCA Board of Directors and Standing Committee. Besides the ABCA, Hitt is the NJCAA Region 8 Assistant Men’s Director, NJCAA Baseball Coaches Association President and is on the NJCAA All-America Committee. He has also coached the NJCAA National Team six times. Hitt speaks on his journey to becoming the ABCA Second Vice President, this year’s challenges and what he is excited about for the Virtual Convention. We also dive into what he has seen as the common themes for the great coaches he has been around, his role as AD and coach, how being surrounded by educators in his immediate family has helped him as a coach, and what it means to him being inducted into three different Halls of Fame.