After spending three seasons as a team manager working with the outfielders and assisting with the offense, Ben Cordy enters his fourth season as a volunteer assistant coach on the UC Davis staff for the 2018-19 campaign, working with the pitching staff, coordinating the team's video operations, and heading up the program's prospect and youth camps, among other responsibilities.
Under Cordy's tutelage, the Aggies' outfield set a UC Davis Division 1 program record for fewest errors in a season at five (2017, 2018), in addition to posting two of the top three seasons in the Division I era for assists and errors with 2.6 and 2.2, respectively. One of his former players, Ryan Anderson (2018), was also selected in the 31st round with the 929th pick overall by the Texas Rangers on day three of the 2018 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.
Following his collegiate playing career, Cordy made his coaching debut as an assistant with the Sacramento Legends, helping lead the club to a 51-24 record in 2014, an American Amateur Baseball Congress Western Regional title, and an appearance in the AABC Stan Musial World Series -- the club's first appearance since 2004. The 51 wins were the most in the history of the organization at the time as Cordy helped the club improve from 26 wins in his first season in 2011, to 40 wins in 2012, and 45 wins in 2013.
Cordy, whose brother, Max, was a pitcher for the Aggies and was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in 2015, came to UC Davis after helping C.K. McClatchy HS to a pair of Metro League titles and two seasons at Sacramento City College from 2010-12. Playing under Andy McKay, the current Director of Player Development for the Seattle Mariners, Cordy helped the Panthers to a Big 8 Conference title in 2010 and a pair of regional titles.
A native of Sacramento, Cordy graduated from UC Davis with a bachelor's degree in sociology and a minor in education and psychology in 2015.
