Augustana College Athletics

Greg Wallace enters his 28th season as the head baseball coach at his alma mater in 2025 and it has been an era of unprecedented success. Since assuming the reigns of the Vikings prior to the 1997-98 school year, he has guided the Vikings to the top 16 single-season win totals in Augustana history. In 21 of his 23 full seasons, Augustana has won at least 25 games. In 2014, he guided the Vikings to their first CCIW regular season title since 1974 and his 2016 team won both the regular season and tournament championships in the league.
 
Wallace’s 2023 club went 39-9 to set the most wins in school history, and finished 16-2 to win both the CCIW outright title and conference tournament championship. 
 
In his very first year, Wallace took the Vikings to a 22-16 record, the second highest victory total in school history at the time, trailing only the then-existing school mark of 25 wins compiled in 1996. He eclipsed that record in 1999 when he led Augustana to a sterling 32-13 season. Included among those 32 wins was the first College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin baseball tournament championship in school history and first ever NCAA Division III tournament appearance. In 2000 the Blue & Gold went 38-8, establishing a new school record and were an impressive 17-4 in CCIW play.
 
In a two-year span from 2007 through 2008 the Vikings had a combined record of 69-27 and have qualified for the NCAA Division III national tournament each season. In 2007 they were 35-14—the second highest win total in school history—and claimed second place finishes in both the CCIW and NCAA Regional tournaments. Wallace’s team set 10 new school records during the year. The 2008 team went 34-13 and was third in both the conference and regional tournament. In all, his teams have claimed CCIW tournament titles in 1999, 2013 and 2016; regular season conference championships in 2014 and 2016; and have made NCAAA Division III Tournament appearances in 1999, 2007, 2008, 2013 and 2016.
 
Wallace—who grew up in Belvidere, Illinois and was a three-sport (football – basketball – baseball) star at Belvidere High School before graduating in 1984—was outstanding in both baseball and football during his undergraduate days at Augustana. He was a three-year starter at quarterback for the Vikings and served as team captain as a senior during the 1987 season. During his football career, he led Augustana to NCAA Division III titles in 1985 and 1986 and the Vikings won three straight CCIW championships under his control.  As a baseball player he was a four-time letterwinner and a four-year starter at second base and center field and was named to the all-conference team in 1986 and 1987. He was elected to Augustana’s Tribe of Vikings Hall of Fame in 2010.
 
Wallace graduated from Augustana in the spring of 1988 with a degree in business with concentrations in marketing and management. After serving as the head baseball coach at Rock Valley Community College for one year in 1989, he moved on to graduate school at Frostburg State University in Maryland. At Frostburg he served as both an assistant football and baseball coach while he earned his Master’s Degree in education. He later became the defensive backs coach for the Bobcat football team before being named head baseball coach in 1992. During his four year tenure (1992-95) as head baseball coach at Frostburg State, Wallace compiled a record of 78-49-1. In his first year his Bobcat team won the Eastern States Athletic Conference and Wallace was named the ESAC Coach of the Year. While under the direction of Wallace, Frostburg State qualified for the ECAC (East Coast Athletic Conference) playoffs three times.
 
In the summer of 1995 Wallace came back to Augustana and quickly moved up the chain of command.  In 1995 he assumed the duties of assistant football and assistant baseball coach. In 1996 he became the offensive coordinator for the Vikings football team. In 1997 he became the head baseball coach, and finally in 1998 he was named the men’s athletic director, replacing John Farwell, who retired after 16 years at the position. He held that position until the spring of 2004.
 
WALLACE’S CAREER RECORD PRIOR TO AUGUSTANA

	OVERALL				CONFERENCE
YEAR	WON	LOSS	TIE	PCT	WON	LOSS	PCT
At Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland
1992	24	10		.705
1993	19	13		.593
1994	17	11	1	.603
1995	18	15		.545
TOTAL	78	49	1	.614

Coach Wallace's year-by-year records at Augustana can be found HERE.