Coach Raven enters his third season at the helm of the Trinity International baseball program.  Over that time he has amassed a 36-50 record, while placing 3 players on CCAC all conference teams, and 12 on CCAC All Academic teams, 2nd in the CCAC in the past two years.

From 1998-2000, Raven was the head baseball coach for Asbury College in Wilmore, KY. In his first year as the head coach, he led a team that won a mere nine games the previous season to a 25-win season in 1999. Raven's team found continued success, winning 24 games in 2000.

Raven remained active in baseball after Asbury coaching the next 6 seasons as assistant baseball coach at Greenway High School while he carried a pastoral role at Deer Valley Church in Phoenix, AZ.

Raven has brought experience to TIU from both the college baseball and discipleship levels.

Before coaching at Asbury, Raven served as the assistant baseball coach from 1995-1998 at West Jessamine High School in Nicholasville, KY. Prior, Raven attended Asbury Theological Seminary and served as a youth pastor from 1991-1995 for Arrow Highway Wesleyan Church.

At the semi-professional level, Raven spent a season playing on a team in Azusa, CA. Raven played second baseman for the Cougars at Azusa Pacific University in California. Coach Raven is filled with passion for God and baseball and he enjoys intertwining the two.

"Beyond God and family, my two passions are Christian discipleship and baseball. I felt led to disciple a group of players through the avenue of baseball," said Raven. "I am drawn to Trinity because of their passion for their players' lives and Christian growth, yet with a desire to excel on the field. I am confident that with God's help I can continue lead the Trinity baseball team to the goals of spiritual growth and competitive quality of play."

Coach Billy Johnson has been most recently a member of the Milwaukee Brewers organization having signed a contract in February of 2009.

Johnson was previously signed on with the Windy City Thunderbolts which is an independent minor league club in Crestwood, IL. The ThunderBolts are part of independent baseball's Frontier League. As an independent club, the ThunderBolts have no affiliation with any major league team. Currently, former ThunderBolts are playing in the organization of two big league teams, the Florida Marlins and Kansas City Royals.

Independent leagues may not have affiliation with MLB but that does not stop players from advancing into different farm systems. The Frontier League has had 14 former players to reach the Majors and over 600 have signed into an affiliated team system since its conception in the early 1990s.

As a former University of Wisconsin-Whitewater catcher Johnson finished the 2008 Warhawk season with a .398 batting average, one of the best on the team. Johnson's fielding percentage was a respectable .974 with 10 errors in 50 games played.

Johnson was named to the first team of the Division III All-Midwest Regional Team this past year by the American Baseball Coaches Association. He was also named First Team All-WIAC this past spring.

Johnson has been part of Warhawk baseball history that has won the WIAC championship seven times in the past nine years. Johnson was on the roster in the 2005 season when Whitewater won the National Championship.

Coach Johnson handles all the catching and 1st base coaching duties, as well as assists with hitting.

Mike O'Leary takes over the pitching duties coming off solid college years and a continuing professional career.

As a former Trinity International left-handed pitcher, Mike O'Leary, signed a professional baseball contract with the Windy City Thunderbolts of the Frontier League on in December of 2009.  O'Leary last pitched for the Trojans during the 2006 season.

Since finishing his college ball, Mike has pitched for Ypsilanti Sliders of the Frontier League during the 2009 season.  He also maintains work in baseball through private lessons and assists the baseball program at Trinity.

O' Leary attended Carmel High School in Mundelien, IL.  During his years there, he earned all-conference, all-area and all-county first-team selections.

Mike was also an all-conference and all-district pitcher for College of Lake County before transferring to Trinity in the Fall of 2005.