Bio

At Simpson

• Entering eighth season in 2024
• Record of 84-151 (45-106 A-R-C) in first seven seasons
• Guided the Storm to 19 wins in 2022, the team's highest win total since 2014
• Led the Storm to the A-R-C Tournament in 2021 after compiling 14 league wins, the most since 2008
• Hired on July 11, 2016 as the 26th coach in program history
• Ranks fifth all-time in career wins

Player Achievement Under Roling

• All-American: Brady Held (2022)
• All-Region: Brady Held (2021, 2022), Truman Schmitt (2019)
• A-R-C Pitcher of the Year: Brady Held (2022)
• All-Conference: Trey Castile (2022, 2023), Brady Held (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023), Mitchell Roeder (2023), Ty Cowley (2022), Brett Kauzlarich (2022), Josh Breitbarth (2021), Colton Major (2021), Noah Sacco (2018, 2021), Truman Schmitt (2019), Devin Creger (2019), Kolton Arnold (2018), Trey Kehoe (2018), Tanner Jansen (2018), Hunter Hillygus (2017)
• Academic All-American: Truman Schmitt (2020) 
• Academic All-District: Will Carlock (2023), Dallas Jackson (2023), Lucas Juhl (2023), Bennett Wadstrom (2023), Colton Major (2021), Truman Schmitt (2020)
• Academic All-Conference (40)

Recent Team Accomplishments Under Roling

• 2022 pitching staff ranked seventh in DIII in strikeouts per nine innings (10.4) and led the conference in strikeouts (248) and batting average against (.236) during league play
• Simpson's 4.80 ERA in 2022 was the team's lowest in eight years
• The Storm hit 82 doubles in 2022, the most since 2009 and fourth-highest season total all-time
• Simpson received 10 votes in the D3baseball.com Top 25 poll on March 9, 2021 after starting the season with a doubleheader sweep of Illinois College

Program Records Set Under Roling

• Team strikeouts in a game (20, 2022)
• Team strikeouts in a season (376, 2022)
• Team doubles in a game (9, 2022)
• Team putouts in a game (38, 2017)
• Individual season ERA (1.53, Brady Held, 2021)
• Individual career ERA (2.60, Brady Held, 2019-Present)
• Individual strikeouts in a game (18, Brady Held, 2022)
• Individual career strikeouts (231, Brady Held, 2019-Present)
• Individual doubles in a game (4, Kolton Arnold, 2022)

Before Simpson

• Spent three seasons as the top assistant coach at Loras... oversaw recruiting, hitting, catching and team defense... team hit .314 in 2016 to tie for second in the IIAC... coached both the league’s batting champion and co-home run leader in 2016
• Served as the top assistant at Coe during a highly successful three-year stretch... helped the Kohawks go 89-43 with an IIAC Championship in 2011 and two trips to the NCAA Tournament... Coe experienced the three winningest seasons in school history during the stretch, including 32 wins in 2011
• Served as head coach of the River Valley Summer Collegiate Baseball League’s Dubuque Waves for a season... led the Waves to a league championship while earning Manager of the Year honors
• Completed a two-year graduate assistantship at Stevenson

Year-by-Year at Simpson