Skip To Main Content
Skip To Main Content

Park University (MO)

Official Home of the Park University Pirates
lundy

Cary Lundy

  • Title
    Head Baseball Coach
  • Phone
    (816) 584-6746
  • Email
    clundy@park.edu
  • Alma Mater
    Park

BIO

About Coach Lundy…

  • Alma Mater: Park University
  • Playing Experience: Played baseball, basketball and ran cross country for Park
  • Record:  487-444-1 (All-time baseball coaching wins leader at Park)
  • 21st season

Coaching experience…

  • 2000-2002 / Park University, Assistant Baseball Coach

More about Coach Lundy…

  • Cary Lundy comes into 2024 for his 22nd season as the head baseball coach at Park University
  • In the 2023 campaign the Pirates were 17-29, finishing just short of the conference tournament. Lundy's seniors broke substantial records in their careers, including Angel Lebron's career all-time strikeout record, and Bryce Dye's career all-time home runs, doubles, RBI's, putouts, and hit by pitch records. Altogether three Pirates were honored with Heart All-Conference awards and five were selected for CSC Academic All-District honors.
  • Prior to the 2023 season, Cary Lundy was enshrined in the Park Athletics Wall of Honor as part of the sensational class of 2022.
  • In 2022, the Pirates compiled a 26-21 record, a program best since the 2016 season. Coach Lundy led Park to its first Heart of America Athletic Conference Tournament berth since joining the conference in 2021 and had six Heart All-Conference athletes.   
  • During the 2021 season, he led Park to the most home runs hit by a team in a season since 2005 with 58. In the same season, he coached the program's first two Heart of America Honorable Mention All-Conference recipients, Sam Derks and Alex Rodriguez. Rodriguez also earned a Gold Glove award at thirdbase.
  • Off the field, his program garnered eight 2020-21 Heart Scholar-Athlete awards.
  • He is the school's winningest head baseball coach and the only skipper to total over 400 wins, picking up career win No. 400 in the 2019 season against Dallas Christian.
  • The 2018 season showcased the skills of Tim Schaareman, who guided by Lundy, earned a Google Cloud Academic All-District team selection and was named the European 4-year Player of the Year by Extra Innings UK Baseball Organization. Schaareman also finsihed out his career with a AMC First Team All-Conference nod.
  • Coach Lundy posted a streak of 20-plus wins in four-straight seasons, 2016-2019.
  • In 2016, Lundy's team was responsible for one of the biggest turnarounds in collegiate baseball, winning 27 games after only claiming 11 wins in 2015.
  • In 2014, Coach Lundy led the Pirates to 19 wins and coached first-team all-conference outfielder Christian Torres and the school's first gold-glove outfielder, Shaun Williams, Jr.
  • Lundy's 2013 Pirates were led by Preseason All-America honoree Kyle Clifton, who finished the year as a First-Team All-AMC award winner.
  • The 2012 season featured NAIA All-America Honorable Mention and AMC Player of the Year third baseman Kyle Clifton as the Pirates had four players earn first-team all-conference accolades and six honorable mention selections.
  • Park's 26 wins in 2012 marked the 10th-consecutive season for Coach Lundy winning at least 22 games.
  • His 2011 team got off to one of Park's fastest starts, winning 15 of its first 17 games, ending the year with four first-team all-conference selections, another five honorable-mention honorees, a gold-glove first baseman in Ryan Rush, and 12 academic all-conference performers in the American Midwest Conference.
  • In 2010, Lundy had the Pirates within a game of playing for the 2010 American Midwest Conference Baseball Tournament championship, falling to William Woods University on the tournament's final day after picking up five all-conference designations, a freshman of the year award for shortstop Jimmy Smelcer, and seven academic-all conference awards. Lundy led the Pirates to 28 wins, including an 8-2 start through the team's first 10 games.
  • The 2010 season also saw the program's second-ever player drafted when Darian Sandford, Park's stolen bases leader with 99 career swipes, was picked in the 47th round by the Kansas City Royals of the 2010 first-year player draft. Sandford was one of four players to play professionally off of the 2010 team.
  • Park opened the 2009 season with a school-record 12-0 start, and during the season, his team produced a 16-4 record at home while putting together a 15-5 mark in the program's final season in the Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference.
  • The 2009 Pirates appeared in the NAIA Top 25 Coaches Poll and at season's end, the Pirates had a shot at conference supremacy, but Park fell to Bellevue in the MCAC championship game, 10-4.
  • Lundy's Pirates fell just short of postseason competition in 2009 as the last team out of the 2009 Avista-NAIA World Series Opening Round. In all, 2009 produced five First-Team All-MCAC performers, one Rawlings/MCAC Gold Glove Honoree, two Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athletes, seven Honorable Mention All-MCAC selections and the league's pitcher of the year, Josh Hake. 
  • During the conference tournament, Lundy also picked up his 200th career win, beating York 5-4 on May 5. He then picked up No. 201 that same day, defeating Peru State, 17-4.
  • In 2008, Lundy managed the team to 28 wins, and the team was one win away from advancing to an NAIA Super Regional, falling to Bellevue University in the NAIA Region IV title game. 
  • Park also played for a shot at the MCAC tournament title in Omaha, Neb., and at the conclusion of the 2008 season, Park had its first player drafted during the Lundy Era when Hake was taken in the 50th round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Philadelphia Phillies.
  • In 2006, he guided the Pirates to the Region IV Tournament championship game, while in 2007, his Pirates qualified for the tournament, amassing 28 wins and finishing the season seven games above .500.
  • Before taking over the program in 2003, he served for three seasons as an assistant coach at Park, starting when the program was reinstated in 2000.
  • During the summer months, Lundy coaches UMB Bank in Kansas City's prestigious Ban Johnson League, leading his squads to seven league championships. In addition, he has also served as a recommending scout for the Cincinnati Reds organization.
  • The Kansas City, Mo. native, Lundy, graduated from Park in 1982  and has two children, J.D. and Kiely.