Former Wildcats baseball star and assistant coach Casey Powell returned to his alma mater in the summer of 2024 as the Assistant Director of Athletics for Facilities.
Powell lettered four years in baseball as a student-athlete at Linfield. Playing second base, he hit .405 and added 17 stolen bases as a junior, earning Northwest Conference Player of the Year honors that season. The following year, he hit .397 from the leadoff position on the way to receiving another first team all-NWC honor.
After graduation, Powell launched his career as an assistant under retired Linfield Hall of Fame coach Scott Carnahan for three years from 1999 until 2002. The following spring, he landed in Walla Walla, Washington, taking the reins of the Whitman College baseball program for six seasons from 2003 to 2006. Powell then seized an opportunity to elevate to the Division I level three years later as an assistant in the Seattle University baseball program for four years from 2009 until 2013. From there, he gravitated back to Central Oregon, eventually taking over as general manager of the Bend Elks baseball club.
Additionally, he filled a seasonal coaching role with USA Baseball in 2019 and served as director of athletic facilities at Pacific University for two years in 2017 and 2018.
Most recently, Powell has focused raising his family while running his own small business. He and his wife Jen, a 1996 Linfield graduate and former Wildcats track and field athlete, are raising two daughters. Morgan, 20, is a junior at the University of Oregon. Cailyn, 17, is a senior at Summit High School.
As the primary manager of Linfield’s athletic and recreational facilities, Powell looks forward to not only enhancing day-to-day operations within the Health, Human Performance and Athletics department, but also contributing to several big-picture facilities projects that loom on the horizon.
