Coach Deshon led the baseball program for 34 years, compiling a 553-446-12 record with five NCAA Tournament appearances.
SU mourns the passing of one of Sea Gull baseball’s founders and a pillar of Salisbury Athletics, Deane Deshon.
The 1998 inductee into the SU Athletics Hall of Fame led the baseball program for 34 years, compiling a 553-446-12 record with five NCAA Tournament appearances.
When he was hired by then-Maryland State Teachers College in 1962, Deshon’s first task was to build the baseball program. Handed a situation with no team, no field, and a population of just 105 male students, Deshon helped oversee the construction of a field where Maggs Center and Devilbiss Hall now stand. He needed just seven years to guide his team to a share of the Delaware Valley Conference Championship. Soon after, they were competing with the upper echelon of Division III talent.
Recognized for both his baseball and basketball leadership, Deshon was named the 1967 Maryland Intercollegiate Basketball Coach of the Year, earned two NAIA District Baseball Coach of the Year awards and named the 1977 NCAA Division III Baseball Coach of the Year. He retired as the 13th-winningest baseball coach in NCAA Division III history.