{"id":8317,"date":"2017-03-16T14:07:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T19:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=8317"},"modified":"2017-03-16T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T19:19:19","slug":"honor-roll-member-kemnitz-brent-lee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=8317","title":{"rendered":"Honor Roll Member – Kemnitz, Brent Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHS Alumni Honor Roll Member<\/h1>\n

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Brent Lee Kemnitz<\/h1>\n

Class of 1974<\/h2>\n

Widely respected as one of the premier pitching coaches in collegiate baseball, Brent just finished his 38th year as assistant coach at Wichita State University.<\/p>\n

While attending PHS Brent was active in both baseball and basketball. After graduation he compiled a 21-7 record at Phillips University (Enid, Oklahoma), helping the Haymakers to a 29-game winning streak and a No. 1 NAIA ranking in his junior season with an 8-0 record.<\/p>\n

Academically, Kemnitz earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in physical education from Phillips in 1978, and a master\u2019s degree in sports administration from Wichita State University in the summer of 1980. After serving two years as a graduate assistant at WSU, in the Fall of 1980 he became a full-time assistant
\ncoach. The \u201cKemnitz era\u201d at Wichita State has seen at least one first-team all-conference pitcher every year but five.<\/p>\n

In addition to his responsibilities at WSU, during the summers from 1984-87 Brent served as pitching coach for the Anchorage Glacier Pilots, a college summer baseball team in Anchorage, Alaska. At Anchorage, Kemnitz helped coach the Glacier-Pilots to four-consecutive top-10 finishes in the annual National Baseball Congress World Series, including a national title in 1986.<\/p>\n

Brent enhanced his nationwide reputation with one of his finest efforts in the spring of 1993. He was forced to mold a starting rotation and middle relief corps from a group largely inexperienced on the college level, yet the Wichita State Shockers (athletic teams at WSU who compete in the NCAA Division I as members of the Missouri Valley Conference) completed the season with a 3.68 ERA.<\/p>\n

In March of 2003, Kemnitz was inducted into the Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

For Brent, honors, accomplishments and awards for pitchers under his tutelage have been commonplace. Twice WSU has led all NCAA Division I teams in ERA and 26 of his pupils have gone on to the majors. In 2011 he was named one of the top three pitching coaches in the country in a poll done by College Baseball Insider.<\/p>\n

The son of Laura and the late Charles Kemnitz, Brent has two daughters, Mackenzie and Madison.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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