Don Sneddon
Head Coach
25th year

Don Sneddon enters his 25th season as the head coach of the Santa Ana College baseball program. His 814-280-3 record and .743 winning percentage during that time is unparalleled in the school’s 90-year history.

Sneddon became the second most winningest coach in California community college history with 773 wins when Santa Ana beat Bakersfield College, 13-3, in the first round of the Southern California Regional Playoffs on May 15, 2004. He trails only Jerry Weinstein who recorded 831 wins while coaching at Sacramento City College.

Santa Ana’s accomplishments with Sneddon at the helm have been plentiful - as the Dons have won three state championships and 11 conference championships. Sneddon’s Dons have appeared in six state championship games - with a record four in a row from 1993-96.

Previous to 1976, the Santa Ana baseball program had only finished above .500 in 14 out of 43 seasons. Since then, the program has gone 26 straight seasons above .500—including 19 seasons above .700.

A total of 99 different players have signed professional contracts while another 170 players have received scholarships to play at four-year colleges and universities during Sneddon's 24-year tenure.

His contributions to amateur baseball have been numerous over the years. Sneddon has coached in the famed Alaska summer league and won a National Baseball Congress tournament title in 1980. In 1990, Sneddon toured with a team of California community college players throughout Taiwan. The following year he traveled to Florida as an assistant coach for the West team at the United States Baseball federation National Team Trials—the first step in the 1992 U.S. Olympic team selection.

A former All-Southern California player at Cerritos College, Sneddon transferred to Cal State Fullerton, where he led the Titans to a California Collegiate Athletic Association conference championship and became the school’s first NCAA Division II All-American in 1974.

After his playing days, Sneddon began his coaching career as an assistant to Augie Garrido at Cal State Fullerton in from 1975-76. From there, Sneddon came to Santa Ana as an assistant to Jim Reach in 1977. The Reach/Sneddon connection turned a once sullen baseball program into a nationally recognized powerhouse.