Gene Salazar has nearly 18 years of experience, including high school and ten years of NCAA Division I and II collegiate coaching experience.  A native of Austin and a graduate of Hays High School and St. Edward's University, Coach Salazar moved to Lockhart in 1995, to serve as head coach at Lockhart High School. Coach Salazar is excited to be opening a new baseball training facility in his "adopted" hometown community.

While coach Salazar has coached many sports, his true passion, knowledge, and experience is for the game of baseball. Most recently, Salazar was an assistant coach with The University of Texas-Pan American baseball program during the 2008 year.  He coached the outfielders, served as the first base coach, and assisted in recruiting. Salazar also served as the interim head coach of the Division I Texas A&M-Corpus Christi baseball program the previous year where he served as the recruiting coordinator in his first three seasons and assisted in all aspects of the day-to-day operation of the Islander program.

Salazar, who coached four seasons with the Islander program, came to A&M-Corpus Christi after helping guide Texas State to a 30-win season and second-place finish in the Southland Conference as a volunteer assistant coach.  Before joining the Bobcats, Salazar had a 102-97 mark (.513 winning percentage) in four seasons as the head coach at Division II St. Edward's University in Austin from 1998-2002. Several of Coach Salazar's players have earned all-conference, all-region and all-american honors and  have gone on to play at the professional level. Aside from his day-to-day coaching responsibilities with various programs, Salazar has been a camp clinician at clinics and camps across the country including the University of Texas Summer & Winter Camps and the TPX Top 96 camps. Coach Salazar is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association, Texas High School Coaches Association, and Texas High School Baseball Association.  Salazar was a four-year letterman at St. Edward's under James Keller and completed his career in the top-five in 10 offensive categories, including second in career home runs, and first in total bases and hits.  He earned All-Heartland Conference honors three times as well as being named the league's Freshman of the Year.

Coach Salazar earned his Bachelor of Arts, Education, Health, Recreation and Sports Management in 1991 and has a Certification in Sports Management  towards his Masters in Human Service.  Salazar is married to Sylvia Salazar and has two children - Andrianna (a 2008 graduate of Lockhart High School and a Brown University freshman) and Jacob, a 7th grader at Lockhart Junior High.