Brock Ward

Title

Assistant Baseball Coach
Email

bkward@uwa.edu
Phone

205-652-3802

A former Tiger relief pitcher, Brock Ward has returned home. A former pitcher and assistant coach at UWA, Ward accepted the full-time position of pitching coach for the Tigers on Jan. 9, 2020.

Ward returned to UWA from the baseball staff at the University of West Florida.

Ward, 29, was a relief pitcher for West Alabama in 2014 and 2015, and after defeating cancer, returned to UWA as a member of the Tiger baseball coaching staff from 2017-19.

In 2025, Ward arguably put together the best year of his coaching career. Ward helped the Tigers to their first GSC Championship since 2015 after his pitching staff registered a 3.89 ERA as a unit. Under Ward’s Tutelage, Judah Buckner and Bryant Quimby were named All-Region and All-GSC while Buckner was named a Third Team All-American.

In 2014 Ward transferred to West Alabama from Mississippi State, then appeared in 16 games, posting an 0-3 record, 2.30 earned run average and three saves for the Tigers. The sidewinder struck out 15 and walked four in 15.2 innings.

As a Tiger senior in 2015 Ward worked in 15 games with one save and a 4.26 ERA as UWA won the Gulf South Conference championship and hosted the NCAA South Regionals. He pitched 12.2 innings, allowing 11 hits and six earned runs. Ward had eight strikeouts and walked seven in his final year, an average of 5.68 strikeouts per nine innings.

Ward began his playing career at East Central Community College in 2011 before transferring to Mississippi State. He was 1-1 with a 1.80 earned run average as a freshman at ECCC and was 0-0 with a 5.02 ERA as a sophomore at ECCC.

Ward was also named a GSC Academic Honor Roll Member in his two seasons at West Alabama.

He played his high school baseball for Coach Justin Reed at Louisville (Miss.) High School. At LHS he was a two-time first team Division 2-3A selection, 2009 Gold Glove Award, Team MVP and captain in 2010. Ward lettered all four years that he was at Louisville High School.