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Drake Robison 2023

Drake Robison

A native of Machesney Park, Illinois, Drake Robison, 29, joined the Oakland Golden Grizzlies baseball staff as the pitching coach ahead of the 2024 season.

Playing his high school baseball for head coach Doug Livingston and the Harlem Huskies, Robison was a three-year letterwinner who earned All-Conference honors as both a pitcher and third baseman, going 8-4 with a save and 81 strikeouts in 67 innings as a senior in 2012.

Located in Council Bluffs, Robison played his first two collegiate campaigns at Iowa Western Community College, racking up nine wins, seven saves and 94 strikeouts over 78.2 innings during his time with the Reivers and helping the club win the 2014 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) National Championship.

With this success at the junior college level, Robison transferred to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) as an Ole Miss Rebel in 2015 and appeared in 16 games, striking out 15 over 18.1 frames.

Posting a 30-28 (15-14 SEC) record in 2015, the Rebels were selected for the NCAA Tournament and placed in the Los Angeles Regional, giving Robison his first postseason experience at college baseball’s highest level.

Electing to move back to the Hawkeye State, he transferred to Iowa following that lone season in Oxford and sat out 2016 in accordance with NCAA regulations.

Eligible to pitch his final collegiate season in 2017, Robison made 20 appearances (nine starts) for the Hawkeyes, highlighted by picking up the win with seven innings of one-run, four-hit baseball in the Big Ten Tournament Championship Game against the Northwestern Wildcats.

By virtue of Iowa’s Big Ten Tournament Championship, Robison again played in the NCAA Tournament in 2017, this time in the Houston Regional.

Immediately following the conclusion of his collegiate career, he pitched half-a-summer for the Windy City ThunderBolts of the Frontier League, a partner league of Major League Baseball, before being released near season’s end.

Robison made his foray into coaching in the spring of 2019 by serving as the assistant pitching coach for Iowa Western Community College, one of his former schools, and that summer he was the pitching coach for the Lakeshore Chinooks of Mequon, Wisconsin in the Northwoods League.

After a year on the Reivers staff, he moved south to Chattanooga State Community College in Tennessee for the 2021 campaign and was with Gulf Coast State College in Panama City, Florida for the 2022 and 2023 seasons and has helped produce a Major League Baseball draft pick with each team he has coached.

In total, Robison has helped develop 11 pitchers that have been drafted or signed to professional contracts thus far in his young career.

Knowledgeable about CoreVelocity, DriveLine, Rapsodo and Trakman data, he has implemented these high-technology programs at each of his stops, giving his student-athletes access to analytical data, such as spin rate and horizontal break, that can help take their pitches to the next level.