Utah head baseball coach Gary Henderson announced the addition of volunteer assistant coach Troy Squires in Fall 2021.
Squires arrives in Salt Lake City after spending 2019 and ’20 at his alma mater, Kentucky, where Squires was a graduate assistant coach.
Prior to entering the coaching world, the former catcher spent the 2018 professional season with the GCL Blue Jays. It was a well-deserved reward for tireless effort and dedication during Squires’ five-year collegiate career. First arriving to Kentucky as a walk-on infielder in 2014, he converted to catcher and went on to be selected by the Blue Jays in the 23rd round of the 2018 MLB Draft.
Squires was a .264 career hitter over 154 games played, adding 25 doubles, six home runs, 88 RBI and 73 runs scored. He departed the Wildcats owning several top-10 program rankings, including career sacrifices (3rd; 35), career hit by pitch (9th; 30) and both the fourth and fifth-best single-season marks for sacrifices. He was part of two NCAA postseason teams, as Kentucky reached the Louisville Regional in 2014 before returning there for the 2017 Super Regionals.
His career culminated as the recipient of the 2018 Senior CLASS Award, becoming the first UK student-athlete to receive the award in any sport. Squires was also inducted into Kentucky Athletics’ Frank G. Ham Society of Character.
During his collegiate playing career, Squires played for all three other coaches now on the Utah staff, including Henderson (2014-16), as well as assistants Mike Brown (2014) and Todd Guilliams (2017-18).
Squires is a double alumnus of Kentucky, earning his Bachelor’s degree in communications in 2017. He followed that up with a Master’s in sports leadership in 2020.
