Experience: 27th season
Alma mater: San Diego State
One of the most respected community college coaches in the nation, Scott Pickler completed his 35th season as head coach at Cypress College in 2018. Pickler has won more than 1,000 games and coached more than 125 players who have gone on to play in the Majors. He has won five state championships as the head coach at Cypress College in addition to claiming six Cape Cod League championships as coach of the Yarmouth Dennis Red Sox. Pick was selected in 2019 to the ABCA Hall of Fame and is also a member member of the Cape Cod Hall of Fame, Cypress College Hall of Fame and Savanna High Hall of Fame. Since taking over at Cypress in 1985, Pickler has amassed a career record of more than 1,000 wins and led the Chargers to State Championship in 1991, 1994, 1997, 2003, and 2013. Pick has been to the final four 11 times, winning five and finishing second four times.
Pickler has been selected as the California Community College Coach of the Year four times and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Community College Athletics Association (CCCAA) in 2016.
More than 400 of Pickler’s student-athletes have received scholarships at four-year schools and more than 126 players have been selected in the Major League Baseball Draft. Twenty three of Pickler’s former Chargers have played in the big leagues, including 2018 MLB Hall of Fame inductee Trevor Hoffman as well as 2017 MLB All-Star Jason Vargas. Hoffman played shortstop at Cypress College and Arizona before transitioning to the mound while in the Minor Leagues.
Pickler has also spent 25 seasons as a coach in the Cape Cod Baseball League, where 116 of his players have gone on to play Major League Baseball. He led the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox to league championships in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Pickler also served as a coach for the 1995 USA Baseball National Trials. Prior to Cypress, Pickler coached for six seasons at Savanna and Loara High Schools in California. He posted a combined record of 123-36 (.774) and won the CIF championship with his 1983 Loara squad.
Picker is a 1968 graduate of Savanna High School where he won a CIF championship under head coach Jim Reach and was named Savanna Athlete of the Year. He was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame alongside his brother, Brad, in 2016.
He attended Cypress College, where he earned All-Conference recognition in baseball. He went on the earn a degree in physical education from San Diego State, where he played as a second baseman. Pick’s lovely wife Sharon, worked in education with autistic students, and other students with special needs. She also spent time as a principals secretary. She is supportive of every team Pick is involved with. She is also “Magga” to two grandkids.
Scott and Sharon have two kids. Their son, Jeff, played for Pick one season before going to Tennessee and becoming the SEC Player of the Year, a unanimous Division First Team All-American as well as an Academic All American. He is in his eighth year as a big-league coach and currently is the bench coach for the Cincinnati Reds. Jeff’s wife, Erica, was a high school science teacher and was a pole vaulter at UCLA.
Scott and Sharon's daughter, Kari, was song leader at UCLA. She spent a year performing on Broadway in the play “Big”. Kari and her husband, Chris, who was a quarterback at Connecticut, run their own family company, putting on major events. Bailey, 12, and Brandt, 10, are Sharon and Scott’s favorite pastime now, watching them cheer and play many sports.
