Coach Verplancke is entering his first year on the Pomona-Pitzer
coaching
staff. Veplancke spent the last two summers as the head coach of
the North
Adams Steeplecats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
He also was
the head coach at Colony High School in Ontario, California from
2006-2008.
Verplancke was selected in the second round of the MLB draft by
the Seattle
Mariners in 1998 after his junior year of college and signed with
the San
Francisco Giants after being selected by them in the 11th round in
1999. He
played six years of minor league baseball in the Giants and
Cubs
organizations and played as high as Triple A.





