At the outset of his second year as Concordia's head coach, Mike Grahovac already has a 15th-round Major League Baseball draft pick to show for his first year on the job, and has spent the offseason bringing in a strong group for the 2010 campaign.

Grahovac coached Chicago White Sox draftee Cameron Bayne in 2008, where the team finished 22-26, including a 16-20 mark in Golden State Athletic Conference play.

In Grahovac's previous coaching stint (2006-08), he led local prep power Orange Lutheran to a Trinity League title in 2008. Grahovac and the Orange Lutheran program produced a total of five players who were drafted by MLB teams. The most notable draftee was Gerrit Cole, the top pick by the New York Yankees in 2008.

Grahovac had previously served as an assistant coach at Orange Coast Community College from 1992-98 and worked in law enforcement before returning to the diamond in 2006.

While he was on staff at Orange Coast, Grahovac spent the summer of 1996 as an assistant coach for the Alaska Goldpanners of the prestigious summer Alaska League, where he coached future major leaguers Michael Young, Jason Phillips and Jason Lane.

As a player, Grahovac was selected as a catcher in the fourth round of the 1989 draft by the San Francisco Giants, but sustained a career-ending injury in the minor leagues. Before being drafted, Grahovac earned a pair of all-conference honors while playing for Chapman.

Grahovac earned his undergraduate degree in movement and exercise science from Chapman in 1992, and completed his master's degree in education at Azusa Pacific in 1996.

Grahovac and his wife, Najla, live in Orange and have two children, Peyton (11) and Gavin (4).

Rick Converse begins his second season as an assistant coach with the Concordia baseball program. Converse will serve as the outfield coach and will also work as a hitting instructor.

Converse spent the 2008 season with current Eagles head coach Mike Grahovac at Trinity League champion Orange Lutheran High School. Prior to the stint at Orange Lutheran, he coached at Villa Park High School and Mater Dei High School. 

A veteran of the commercial lighting industry for over 20 years, Converse and his wife, Julie, have two daughters, Jadie (16) and Abbie (12).

Ryan Hanson begins his second year at Concordia as an assistant coach. 

Hanson serves as a first-base coach and as head coach Mike Grahovac's catching instructor.

Hanson brings in experience at both the collegiate and independent levels, where he played catcher through the 2007 season in the Frontier League. He earned coaching experience as the first-base coach and catching instructor at Orange Coast College in 2004-05.

A nominee for the Johnny Bench Award at NCAA Div. I University of San Francisco, where he played in 2003-04, Hanson hit .329 with seven doubles and a pair of homeruns in his junior year, earning All-West Coast Conference honorable mention recognition.

Before spending the 2001-02 season at Orange Coast College, where he garnered all-conference honors, Hanson attended NCAA Div. I UNLV in 1999-2001, playing baseball and football and earning All-Mountain West Conference and Academic All-Conference honors on the diamond.

Hanson prepped at Los Alamitos High School, where he threw for 3,100 yards as a quarterback and hit .407 as a four-year starting catcher.

Hanson is single.

A former player and coach at NCAA Div. I powerhouse Cal State Fullerton, Joe Turgeon begins his second campaign as head coach Mike Grahovac's assistant coach.

Turgeon's main duties are that of pitching coach and recruiting coordinator.

After playing five years (including one as a redshirt) as an outfielder for the Titans, who captured the NCAA national championship title in 2004, Turgeon spent the 2007 and 2008 campaigns as an assistant for head coaches George Horton and Dave Serrano.

Turgeon also spent the summer of 2007 as a pitching coach for the Texas Collegiate League's Duncanville Deputies.

He graduated from Cal State Fullerton in 2006 with his bachelor's in kinesiology.

Turgeon is single and lives in Anaheim Hills.