Associate Head Coach - 2026 will be 7th Season at Florida
Chuck Jeroloman concluded his sixth season at Florida in 2025 with the Gators reaching the NCAA Tournament in every year of his tenure. After advancing to the College World Series for the second-straight year in 2024, Jeroloman was promoted to the role of associate head coach during the offseason. Since his 2020 arrival, Jeroloman has elevated the Gators to new heights at the plate, across the diamond and on the recruiting trail.
Prior to Jeroloman's hire, only one Gator had ever launched 20-plus homers in back-to-back seasons (Brad Wilkerson,1997-98). That feat has now been accomplished by three different Gators across three-straight seasons under Jeroloman: Jud Fabian (2021-22), Wyatt Langford (2022-23) and Jac Caglianone (2023-24).
In the 2025 campaign, Jeroloman's offense slugged 94 home runs for the seventh-highest total in team history. The UF assistant also helped the Gators navigate a myriad of injuries, as 11 different players came through with a game-winning RBI. That propelled the Orange & Blue to an unprecedented second-half turnaround, with the offense slashing .296/.406/.500 with 26 homers and 32 stolen bases in the final 18 SEC games of the year.
Jeroloman mentored star freshman infielder Brendan Lawson in 2025, who made the Freshman All-SEC Team after starting 60 of 61 games while hitting .317/.417/.522 for a .939 OPS. The Canadian rookie totaled 10 homers, one triple, 14 doubles, 48 runs and eight steals while ranking second on the team with 61 RBI. Lawson also finished second on the roster with 15 multi-RBI contests and 23 multi-hit games while seeing action at first, second and third base.
Shortstop Colby Shelton and catcher/designated hitter Brody Donay both enjoyed career years at the plate as well. Shelton reached base in 44 of 45 games before suffering a season-ending hamate injury, hitting .377/.458/.606 with seven home runs, 19 doubles, 40 runs, 35 RBI and six stolen bases. The Brooks Wallace Award Semifinalist recorded 23 multi-hit games despite seeing limited action. Meanwhile, Donay slugged a career-high 18 home runs while slashing .303/.418/.646 for a 1.064. The junior finished with two triples, 10 doubles, 45 runs, 41 RBI and eight steals.
Jeroloman was instrumental in recruiting transfer infielder Bobby Boser to Gainesville, who led Florida in at bats (238), hits (80), runs (72), RBI (67), total bases (146), home runs (18), stolen bases (19) and on-base percentage (.437) in 2025. Finishing with a robust .336/.437/.613 batting line, Boser nearly became the second 20-homer/20-steal player in team history (Brad Wilkerson, 1998). His 21 multi-RBI games equated to over one-third of UF's contests while his six three-hit showings and 25 multi-hit games also paced the squad. The UF third baseman took home All-SEC Defensive Team honors while ranking top-10 in the SEC in runs (second), steals (fourth), RBI (sixth), hits (eighth), at bats (eighth) and total bases (eighth) during the regular season.
Jeroloman also guided catcher Luke Heyman into finishing as a 2025 Buster Posey Award Semifinalistand a First Team All-SEC honoree. Arguably the nation's top catcher prior to going down with an injury vs. Alabama on May 15, Heyman batted .301/.397/.578 across 49 games backed by 13 homers, one triple, seven doubles, 44 RBI and 37 runs scored. He slashed an even better .317/.403/.673 in 28 SEC contests. The UF backstop did this while providing near-perfect defense, finishing with a .998 fielding percentage and ranking third in the SEC with 11 runners caught stealing.
Guided by Jeroloman's oversight of the 2024 offense, Florida saw seven different Gators eclipse double-digit home runs for the first time since 1998: Caglianone (35), shortstop Colby Shelton (20), catcher Luke Heyman (16), infielder/outfielder Tyler Shelnut (16), second baseman Cade Kurland (14), catcher/designated hitter Brody Donay (14) and outfielder Ty Evans (13). Those seven Gators accounted for 128 of Florida’s 136 home runs (94.1%).
Florida finished the 2024 campaign ranked among the top-four teams in the country in fielding percentage (third - .982) and home runs (fourth - 136). The Gators also posted the top fielding percentage in the SEC, committing just 42 errors across 2,350 chances in 66 games.
Perhaps most notably, Jeroloman helped guide the rise of one of the best players in college baseball history in Caglianone. Slashing .419/.544/.875 with a program-record 35 home runs, Caglianone made a team-high 16 starts for a 5-2 record, 4.76 ERA, .225 BAA and 83 strikeouts in 73 2/3 innings. He now owns each of the two-most-prolific home run seasons in Gators history with 35 and 33 the last two years. His 2024 campaign was highlighted by three extraordinary feats, beginning by homering in an NCAA-record nine-straight games from April 6-19. Caglianone followed the act by going 66-consecutive plate appearances without a strikeout from April 7-27. The slugger then proceeded to post a 30-game hitting streak from March 23 through May 12 to tie the all-time program mark, finishing with hits in 62 of 66 games.
On top of that, he reached safely in 65 of 66 games while finishing the campaign with an active on-base streak of 52-straight contests. He drew 32 more walks (58) than strikeouts (26), ranking as the 66th-most-difficult hitter to strikeout in the nation. By finishing with 104 hits, Caglianone tied the single-season program record and set a new career home run record at 75 home runs - the third-highest total in SEC history. The Tampa, Fla. native concluded his career as a .355/.447/.760 hitter over 634 at bats, owning 225 hits, 189 RBI, 176 runs, eight stolen bases and the highest slugging percentage in team history.
Jeroloman's Florida offense scored in every game from May 27, 2022 at the SEC Tournament up until the final game of the 2024 regular season when the Gators were shut out, 6-0, by Texas A&M in Omaha on June 19. The streak spanned 144-consecutive games and represented Florida’s third-longest scoring streak in program history.
During Jeroloman's fourth season in Orange & Blue in 2023, the Gators won a program-record 54 games while winning the SEC regular-Season Championship and advancing to the College World Series Finals. Guided by Jeroloman's hitting instruction, Florida swatted a program-record and nation-leading 145 home runs while performing as one of the top offenses in the country. The Gators finished the campaign ranked seventh in slugging percentage (.545), eighth in runs (566) and 10th in hits (686). Most impressively, Florida scored in 43.3% of its batted innings over the course of the year (254 of 586).
Under Jeroloman's tutelege, seven different Gators collected All-American honors in 2023 including two Unanimous First Team hitters in Wyatt Langford and Jac Caglianone. That is on top of Florida’s league-high seven All-SEC selections. The Gators comprised the entire All-SEC starting infield with the exception of third base.
The two-way playing Caglianone produced perhaps the best offensive season in school history. He set single-season program records with 33 home runs and 90 RBI while slashing .323/.389/.738. As the lone Gator to start all 71 games, Caglianone’s 33 homers led the nation and established a new BBCOR era record in college baseball. On the mound, the 2023 ABCA Player of the Year went 7-4 with a 4.34 ERA, .190 BAA and 87 strikeouts across 18 weekend starts.
Jeroloman also got remarkable contributions out of the Freshman All-SEC tandem of second baseman Cade Kurland and catcher/DH Luke Heyman, who both earned everyday spots in the starting lineup while swatting double-digit homers. Kurland in particular was named First Team All-SEC and a Freshman All-American, slashing .297/.404/.555 with a program-record 17 homers at the second base position – the most by a UF freshman since JJ Schwarz’s 18 in 2015. Meanwhile, Heyman concluded the year hitting .314/.366/.555 backed by 12 homers, 39 RBI and 30 runs over 51 starts.
Elsewhere on the diamond, Langford earned All-America status for the second-straight year, becoming a Unanimous First Teamer after being named a Unanimous Preseason All-American in February. The Trenton, Fla. native bashed 20 home runs for the second-consecutive season, becoming the third Gator to do so alongside Brad Wilkerson (1997-98) and Jud Fabian (2021-22). He finished the year with a .373/.498/.784 batting line, 21 homers, 83 runs, 57 RBI and 28 runs – which tied Mike Zunino’s program record.
Lastly, Jeroloman helped lift shortstop Josh Rivera to arguably the most impressive campaign of any middle infielder in team history, crushing a middle-infield record 19 homers in Orange & Blue accompanied by a .348/.447/.617 slash line. That performance made Rivera a Brooks Wallace Award Finalist, First Team All-SEC standout and Second Team All-American. The four-year Gators star also swiped a team-high 18 bags and delivered a .965 fielding percentage across 254 chances.
Going back to his third campaign with the Gators in 2022, Florida continued its program-best streak of consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.The 2022 season marked the 18th time that Florida has hosted an NCAA Regional in addition to the program’s 37th NCAA Tournament appearance. After opening the first 40 games of the season with a 23-17 record (.575) and 6-12 mark in SEC play, Florida went 19-7 (.731) down the stretch, winning the final four SEC series of the season (9-3) while posting a 13-5 record against SEC teams. That included a trip to the SEC Tournament Championship, as the Gators were one of two teams to make it to the SEC Tourney semifinals each of the last two years.
Thanks in large part to Jeroloman, the Gators hit 121 home runs as a team in 2022 – the second-highest total in program history. For the first time ever, two Gators hit 20-plus home runs in the same season: outfielders Wyatt Langford (26) and Jud Fabian (24). Langford’s 26 home runs tied Matt LaPorta’s team record set in 2005. Highlighted by his memorable, two-run walk-off home run over No. 20 Florida State on May 17, outfielder Sterlin Thompson turned in a sensational sophomore season at the plate as well. Across 254 at bats, Thompson batted .354/.443/.563 with a career-high 11 home runs, two triples, team-high 16 doubles, 59 runs, 51 RBI, 143 total bases and a team-high 10 steals.
In Jeroloman's second year on staff in 2021, the Gators went 8-1 in home series in the inaugural season at Florida Ballpark, ending the year on an eight-series home winning streak. En route to earning a school-record 13th-straight NCAA Regional berth, the Gators secured series wins over No. 3 Ole Miss, No. 2 Vanderbilt and Georgia. The Gators also started 3-0 at the SEC Tournament for the first time in 21 years, outscoring Kentucky, No. 8 Mississippi State and Alabama by a combined 24-4 margin.
In 2020, Jeroloman's first season on staff, Florida won its first 16 games, eclipsing the school record for consecutive wins to open a season previously set with 11-0 starts in 1989 and 2002. The Gators' winning streak was also the third-longest in school history, behind an 18-game run in 2012, and a 17-game streak in 2016. The run of season-opening wins included a sweep at No. 1 Miami, a series in which the Gators have won 15 of the last 18 meetings.
Following Florida's only loss of the year, the COVID-19 pandemic led to the season's cancellation. Florida finished as the No. 1-ranked team all four of collegiate baseball's rankings, though only
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper and the
USA Today Coaches' Poll officially published rankings following the season's cancellation.
At the time of the cancellation, Florida ranked 10th nationally in fielding percentage (.984) and 12th in home runs (21).
Redshirt junior third baseman Kirby McMullen finished second on the team with a .458 on-base percentage, in large part due to his team-leading 14 walks. McMullen's 14 runs also ranked second on the team.
Prior to Florida
Following a seven-year professional playing career, Jeroloman entered the coaching ranks and accumulated eight seasons of collegiate coaching experience, including six years in the state of Florida, helping lead both Jacksonville and USF to NCAA Regional berths. He is also familiar with the Southeastern Conference, having started 170 games at shortstop for Auburn from 2002-04 before being drafted by the Boston Red Sox.
Jeroloman joined the Gators after spending the 2018 and 2019 seasons at South Florida, where he served as the lead assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. He primarily worked with the Bulls’ hitters, infielders, outfielders and base running.
In 2019, Jeroloman was key in the development of senior first baseman Joe Genord, who earned First Team All-AAC honors after hitting .333 with 13 home runs and 52 RBI. In total, three players hit over .300 on the season, including redshirt sophomore Jake Sullivan, a converted catcher who became the Bulls’ everyday third baseman and hit .340 over the team’s last 31 games.
In his first season with the Bulls in 2018, USF had its highest finish in AAC history (2nd place) and earned a berth in the NCAA tournament. The offense led the nation with 2.49 doubles per game and finished second in the entire country with 147 doubles. Five hitters finished the season batting over .300 as USF broke conference offensive records in doubles, slugging percentage (.464), batting average (.296) and total bases (951). Six Bulls earned All-Conference honors, led by third baseman David Villar, who also earned Third Team All-America honors.
In four seasons coaching at Jacksonville University, Jeroloman helped the Dolphins improve their win total each season, culminating in 2017 as JU went 36-23 and won its first regular season A-SUN Conference Championship in 11 years with a 16-5 record in league play.
Jeroloman served as Jacksonville’s recruiting coordinator and primarily worked with the hitters, infielders, outfielders and catchers. In four seasons, he helped guide six position players to All-Conference honors and four freshmen to A-SUN All-Freshmen honors. In 2014, infielder Scott Schaub earned Third Team All-America honors from the NCBWA and finished fifth in the nation with a .407 batting average.
Under Jeroloman, the Dolphins were consistently near the top of the A-SUN in fielding percentage and hitting. In his four years, Jacksonville compiled a .299 batting average in conference play and hit over .300 in two seasons. In the same span, JU had a .975 fielding percentage in league games. In 2014, JU led the league in conference play in fielding percentage (.979). The team broke the school record for single-season fielding percentage in 2016 (.971).
Jeroloman joined the TCU staff under Jim Schlossnagle for the 2012-13 seasons and helped lead the Horned Frogs to the Mountain West title and NCAA Super Regional appearance in 2012. He worked primarily with TCU’s hitters, infielders and catchers. In the second half of the 2012 season, he helped the team surge to a .294 batting average and .488 slugging percentage.
Under his watch, TCU finished third nationally in double plays in 2012 with a pair of freshman playing the middle infield positions. In the 2013 regular season, TCU led the Big 12 and ranked in the top 25 nationally in fielding percentage (.976).
Following his playing career, Jeroloman entered the coaching ranks at Palm Beach Central High School (2008-11). In three seasons, every infielder and catcher he coached received a college scholarship.
While at Auburn, Jeroloman was the starting shortstop for three seasons on the Plains and played in 175 games, totaling 12 home runs and 91 RBI for the Tigers. He was selected in the 21st round of the 2004 MLB Draft by the Boston Red Sox and played four seasons in their organization, reaching as high as Triple-A Pawtucket. He also played four seasons of Independent baseball.
Born in Suffern, New York, Jeroloman attended Wellington High School in Wellington, Florida. Jeroloman and his wife, Tara, have four sons, Owen, Chase, Brady and Kota. His brother, Brian, was a catcher for the Gators from 2004-06.
THE CHUCK JEROLOMAN FILE
Birthdate: Sept. 14, 1982
Hometown: Suffern, N.Y.
High School: Wellington HS (Wellington, Fla.)
Education: Auburn University, 2001-2004 (drafted by Boston Red Sox following junior year)
Bachelor of Science, Management – University of Phoenix, 2011
Coaching Career:
Associate Head Coach, University of Florida, 2024-present
Assistant Coach, University of Florida, 2020-2024
Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator, University of South Florida, 2018-19
Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator, University of Jacksonville, 2014-17
Volunteer Assistant Coach, TCU, 2012-13
Assistant Coach, Palm Beach Central HS, 2008-11
Collegiate Playing Career:
Auburn University, 2002-04
Professional Playing Career:
Boston Red Sox Organization (Drafted in 21st round in 2004)
- Lowell (Mass.) Spinners (Class A Short-Season – New York-Pennsylvania League), 2004
- Greenville (S.C.) Bombers (Class A – South Atlantic League), 2005-06
- Pawtucket (R.I.) Red Sox (Class AAA – International League), 2005-06
- Wilmington (Del.) Blue Rocks (Class A Advanced – Carolina League), 2006
- Lancaster (Calif.) JetHawks (Class A Advanced – California League), 2007
Independent League
- The Grays (Canadian-American Association), 2007
- Worcester Tornadoes (Canadian-American Association), 2008
- Southern Maryland Blue Crabs (Atlantic League), 2009
- York Revolution (Atlantic League), 2010
PRIOR PLAYERS DRAFTED (Year, Round - Team)
Palm Beach Central HS
- 2B Devon Travis (2012, 13th – Detroit Tigers) – attended Florida State – Made MLB Debut 4/6/15 with Toronto Blue Jays
- 3B Ian Hagenmiller (2013, 10th – Atlanta Braves)
- 2B Alex Hernandez (2014, 40th – Houston Astros) – attended Miami
TCU
- C Josh Elander (2012, 6th – Atlanta Braves)
- OF Jason Coats (2012, 29th – Chicago White Sox) – Made MLB Debut 6/4/16 with Chicago White Sox
- OF Kyle Von Tungeln (2012, 13th – Colorado Rockies)
- 2B Paul Hendrix (2013, 18th – Cleveland Indians)
- 3B Jantzen Witte (2013, 24th – Boston Red Sox)
- 1B Kevin Cron (2014, 14th – Arizona Diamondbacks) – Made MLB Debut 5/24/19 with Arizona Diamondbacks
- C Kyle Bacak (2014, 25th – Washington Nationals)
- OF Jerrick Suiter (2014, 26th – Pittsburgh Pirates)
- OF Cody Jones (2015, 6th – Kansas City Royals)
- SS Keaton Jones (2015, 15th – Detroit Tigers)
Jacksonville
- OF Connor Marabell (2015, 25th – Cleveland Indians)
- INF Angelo Amendolare (2015, 27th – Chicago Cubs)
- OF Austin Hays (2016, 3rd – Baltimore Orioles) – Made MLB Debut 9/7/17 with Baltimore Orioles
- RHP Chris Rodriguez (2016, 4th – Los Angeles Angels) – JU signee, drafted and signed out of Monsignor Pace HS
- SS JJ Gould (2016, 24th – Miami Marlins)
- RHP Michael Baumann (2017, 3rd – Baltimore Orioles)
- 3B Angel Camacho (2019, 8th – Toronto Blue Jays)
South Florida
- LHP Shane McClanahan (2018, 1st – Tampa Bay Rays)
- 3B David Villar (2018, 11th – San Francisco Giants)
- SS Coco Montes (2018, 15th – Colorado Rockies)
- 1B Joe Genord (2019, 9th – New York Mets)
- RHP Nelson Alvarez (2019, 13th – New York Yankees)
- RHP Alec Wisely (2019, 34th – Cleveland Indians)
