Braden Wells is in his first year as Linfield baseball coaching staff assistant. He will also assist with game management during football game days.
Wells' coaching experience spans every level of college baseball, including Division I and II, NAIA and Junior College, and now Division III.
He was most recently was the Director of Student-Athlete Development for the Oregon State baseball program during the 2022 and 2023 seasons. Prior to returning to his alma mater to join Mitch Canham’s staff, Wells was an assistant coach at Linn-Benton Community College during the 2019 and 2020 seasons. In 2019, Wells stepped outside his comfort zone and took on the role of pitching coach for Roadrunners manager Andy Peterson.
Prior to his time at LBCC, Wells made a brief stop in 2017 as head coach of the Skagit Valley College baseball program following a one-year stint with Spencer as an assistant coach at Washington State in 2016.
He served a three-year stint as an assistant at Concordia-Portland from 2013-15, helping guide the Cavaliers to the best three-year stretch in program history. Wells made the decision to pursue coaching as a career and served as the graduate assistant at Grand Canyon University in 2012. He began his coaching career as an undergraduate assistant coach for the Beavers in 2009 after playing outfield for OSU in 2007 and 2008.
The Glendale, Ariz., native appeared in 88 games over two seasons at Oregon State. He batted .277 as a junior in 2007, helping the Beavers to the second of two consecutive national titles. It was at OSU where he met Spencer, who was then the pitching coach of during the Beavers’ 2006 and 2007 national championship seasons.
Wells played two seasons at Dixie State. As a sophomore, he was named first team All-Region after batting .358 with nine doubles, a triple and 31 RBI.
Wells was an all-state outfielder and 2004 graduate of Brophy College Prep in Arizona.