Steve DeGroote begins his first season with the Indiana State Sycamore baseball team as a voluntary assistant coach with the 2014 season. This is his second tour with the Sycamores as he was an assistant coach for Bob Warn from 1980 through 1985 helping coordinate recruiting and working with the infielders.
Indiana State won the Missouri Valley Conference twice and appeared in two NCAA Mideast Regionals (1983 and 1984) during DeGroote’s first tour as a Sycamore assistant coach. Indiana State also posted the school’s first 40-game winning season in 1982 when the Sycamores were the East Division Champions of the MVC.
DeGroote spent 21 seasons as the head coach at West Vigo High School where he compiled a record of 441-118. He had previously coached at Corwith-Wesley High School in Corwith, Iowa, and has a career record of 525-147 through 27 seasons. He was one of the few coaches in Iowa to take teams to the state tournament in both baseball and basketball.
While at West Vigo, the Vikings won 10 sectionals, five regionals, one semistate, reached the final four once (2000) and reached the state championship game once (2009).
DeGroote attended William Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He and his wife Connie have three sons and a daughter, Casey, Cully, Cory, and Cammi.
