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Baseball Head Coach
James N. Vilade
James Vilade
By The Numbers...
312
Wins as a head coach
in his career
91
All-Conference Players
25
Players that have signed pro contracts
under Vilade at UT Tyler & Dallas
3
ASC East Coach of the
Year awards
4
Patriots drafted by MLB teams (Amyx, Jennings, Holland, Matthews)
1
Sports Illustrated article on Vilade (8/14/2000) honoring him for excellence in college coaching
1
Child born on MLB opening day, Trent Vilade born on 4/2/2007
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 James Vilade enters his seventh season at the helm of the Patriots' baseball program in 2010 after guiding UT Tyler to its most wins in program history at 39-12 overall, first-ever American Southwest Conference championship and first trip to an NCAA Regional a year ago.
A native of Gladstone, N.J., Vilade has been a part of the UT Tyler baseball team since its first year of inception in 2003, where he took control of his first recruiting class and developed the program from scratch. When Vilade arrived, he faced quite a challenge with no players, no field and no practice facility. With just a name on the jersey and a tradition to build, Vilade built the Patriots into a playoff-caliber team in just their first season, finishing at 24-13 overall.
Since then, the Patriots have won four ASC East championships in the last five years, finished in the Top 3 in the league standings in every year and posted three consecutive 35-win seasons. Just as impressive is the fact that the 2005 (.811) and 2007 (.974) teams posted the top win percentages in the entire state of Texas, topping the 2005 Division I National Champion Texas Longhorns.
Vilade owns a striking 312-105 career record in 10 seasons as a collegiate head coach, spending 1998-2001 at the University of Dallas before coming to UT Tyler in 2003. His .748 win percentage currently sits at 5th in all of Division III among active head coaches, while his career record of 194-53 (.785) at UT Tyler is equally impressive with four seasons of 30 or more wins. Vilade won three-straight ASC Championships while at rival Dallas, winning his fourth with UT Tyler in 2009.
During the summers of 2007 and 2008, Vilade was hired by the Texas Rangers to serve as the hitting instructor for the Frisco Roughriders, the Rangers' AA affiliate. The Roughriders qualified for the Texas League Playoffs each summer Vilade was a part of the organization, and were named the Minor League Team of the Year at the conclusion of the 2008 season.
A total of 91 of his former players have been selected to All-Conference teams, 59 have been named All-Academic and 16 have been named to an All-American team. In addition, Vilade has helped tutor 26 former ballplayers sign professional contracts since 1998, including four into the MLB Draft.
Vilade began his baseball career as an all-state player for Bernards HS (N.J.) under head coach Mike Hoppe and started his collegiate career at St. Peter's. Vilade played first base and served as a closer for the Peacocks, leading the team in saves his freshman year, which ranked second in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. After being named an all-star with the New Jersey Pilots of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League, Vilade transferred to Baylor University. While playing for head coach Steve Smith, Vilade went on to help the Bears win the 1993 Southwest Conference Championship and advance to the NCAA Division I Tournament. A team captain and Academic Honor Roll scholar-athlete, Vilade also won the University’s “Fred Harris 110 Percent Award” - an honor given to him by his teammates.
He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunications from Baylor University and his Master of Sports Science in Sports Management from the United States Sports Academy. For his work in the community, with UT Tyler and with the USSA, Vilade was named as the Academy's 2010 Alumnus of the Year.
Outside of baseball, Vilade is very active in community affairs, starting the “Sports Cards for Kids” in East Texas charity. He also sits on the Board of Directors for the Boys and Girls Club of East Texas and is involved with Food Fast Children’s Charities. He and his players are very active in numerous charities, including the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, Trinity Mother Francis Diabetes Camp and the American Heart Walk. Vilade is active in the Lanes Chapel Methodist Church.
Vilade and his wife, Jennifer, reside in Tyler with their sons Ryan (11) and Trent (2), who was born on MLB opening day in April, 2007, and daughter McKenzie (8).
James Vilade: Year-by-Year
Year |
School |
W |
L |
Results |
1997 |
U of Dallas |
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Recruiting/Program Development |
1998 |
U of Dallas |
25 |
17 |
ASC East, 5th Place |
1999 |
U of Dallas |
26 |
16 |
ASC East Champions |
2000 |
U of Dallas |
34 |
11 |
ASC East Champions
NCAA #6 Ranking |
2001 |
U of Dallas |
33 |
8 |
ASC East Champions
NCAA #7 Ranking |
2002 |
Oral Roberts |
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Assistant Coach (48-19)
NCAA #20 Ranking |
2003 |
UT Tyler |
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Recruiting/Program Development |
2004 |
UT Tyler |
24 |
13 |
ASC East, 3rd Place |
2005 |
UT Tyler |
30 |
7 |
ASC East Champions |
2006 |
UT Tyler |
28 |
11 |
ASC East, 2nd Place |
2007 |
UT Tyler |
37 |
1 |
ASC East Champions |
2008 |
UT Tyler |
36 |
9 |
ASC East Champions |
2009 |
UT Tyler |
39 |
12 |
ASC Champions
ASC East Champions
NCAA Regional Qualifier |
Career: |
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312 |
105 |
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Coach James Vilade can be reached at (903) 565-5640 or by email at jvilade@uttyler.edu.
Baseball
Coaching Staff
Assistant Coach
Stan Phelps
 Stan Phelps returns for a sixth season in 2010 as an assistant coach, spending a majority of his time working with the UT Tyler pitching staff and helping run the Patriots' summer baseball camps.
Since his arrival in 2005, Phelps has tutored the Patriots to the ASC's top ERA in each season, including the nation's fourth-best ERA in 2007 (2.68) and fifth-best in 2008 (3.02). UT Tyler also set a conference record with 438 strikeouts a year ago, led by an ASC single-season record 114 from ASC East Pitcher of the Year Brett Holland who was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 2009 MLB Draft.
UT Tyler has had 15 All-ASC pitchers under his watch, including three ASC Pitchers of the Year. Of the 20 players UT Tyler has sent to the pros, 11 have been pitchers and at least one has been drafted in each of the last three seasons.
Phelps' young coaching career also includes a stint with the Babe Ruth League in Newark, Ohio, in which he served as a pitching coordinator, and the inaugural season with the East Texas Pump Jacks in 2008, where he served as the head coach and was named the TCL Coach of the Year.
After a solid high school career at New Boston HS in New Boston, Texas, Phelps spent two seasons at Richland College where he compiled an impressive 10-1 mark on the mound and was a member of the NJCAA National Runner-up team in 2000. He later collected all-region and all-conference honors as a sophomore, being named the team's Pitcher of the Year. After his time at Richland, Phelps went on to play his junior season at Eastern New Mexico University before landing at UT Tyler as a senior for the Patriots' inaugural season in 2004.
A 2004 graduate from UT Tyler in marketing, Phelps later earned his M.S. in human resource development in 2006. He currently lives in Flint with his wife, Kristee.
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Assistant
Coach
Josh Dickerson
Assistant
Coach
Paige Hodges
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Assistant
Coach/
Coordinator of Special Projects
Kyle Welsh
Kyle graduated from Bullard High School in 1998. While
at Bullard he lettered in football and baseball, spending all four
years on the varsity
baseball team. Kyle was also an All-District track selection, and he
earned tournament MVP honors in baseball. In 1996 he was named East
Texas Sophomore of the Year, Newcomer of the Year, and first team All-District.
Kyle’s academic honors included the All-American Scholar Award,
National Honor Roll, USAA Award Program, and the National Leadership
and Service Award.
Kyle went to Temple College to play college
baseball but returned home to attend Tyler Junior College, where
he majored in computer science
and was a member of the Dean’s list in 1999. Kyle was set to
complete his degree in the fall of 2000 when he was involved in an
accident on September 24. He spent 51 days on life support and 118
days in ICU. Kyle uses a wheelchair but does not let it slow him down.
Kyle has spent his summers and falls coaching
baseball, his first love in sports. Kyle has a seven and eight-year
old team, the Panthers,
who have been playing together for three years. The team’s parents
and supporters have been impressed with Kyle’s care and effort
in coaching the little league team. Because he loves baseball and children,
Kyle felt the best thing to do would be to teach the game to younger
players since he was no longer playing college ball.
Kyle has been involved, along with his
father, with Team Penning and cutting horses. He also enjoys deer
hunting and was awarded the “Big
Game Award” for his trophy deer in 1998.
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