Chandler Rose is entering his second season as the head coach of the University of Montevallo baseball program.

Rose led the Falcons to a 22-26 record in his first season and spear-headed a dramatic improvement for the Falcons in wins and most offensive, defensive and pitching categories. He helped guide the Falcons to nine wins over ranked opponents and added nine more wins to the 2010 total while subtracting ten losses.

In just one season at the helm of the program Rose has already produced three All-Conference players as well as an Academic All-District honoree.

The seventh head coach in program history, Rose came to Montevallo after spending the previous four seasons as head assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at the Air Force Academy. Prior to his time at the Academy he spent one season as the assistant at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Throughout his career, Rose has coached three players who have gone on to play in Major League Baseball including Casey Coleman (Chicago Cubs), Danny Worth (Detroit Tigers), and Lucas Duda (New York Mets).

Rose was responsible for the AFA infielders and hitters. He also handled the third base coaching duties, summer ball placement for returning players and was heavily involved in the nation-wide recruiting effort. With his Florida background, Rose was primarily responsible for recruiting the southeast region.

Since his arrival at the Academy the Falcons batting average went from .249 in 2007 to .301 in 2010. The .301 average is the highest it has been at the Academy since 2003. Air Force led the nation in triples per game in 2008.

Air Force has also posted three of its best four fielding years in school history since Rose began working with the Falcon infield. The 2010 squad finished with a school record .958 fielding percentage, surpassing the .957 mark set by the 2008 and 1979 team. The 2009 team fielded .955.

In 2009, designated hitter Matt Alexander became Air Force's first First Team All-American under Rose's guidance, earning first-team All-NCBWA honors. Freshman Garrett Custons, who Rose recruited out of Sarasota, Fla., currently holds five Air Force freshman records and ranks in the top three in nine freshman categories. Custons was also named a Freshman All-American.

Rose is a 2004 graduate of the University of Central Florida, where he was a two-year letterwinner. Rose was an Atlantic Sun All-Conference selection his junior year as a shortstop and helped lead UCF to the Atlantic Sun Championship and played in the championship of the Tallahassee Regional.

Rose began his collegiate playing career at the University of New Orleans playing for the Privateers as a freshman and sophomore before transferring to UCF.

The Fort Myers, Fla., native got his coaching start as an assistant for the Winter Park Diamond Dogs of the Florida Collegiate League in 2005. Rose has also worked at the University of Florida, UCF and FGCU summer baseball camps.

In his first year as an assistant at Florida Gulf Coast, Rose helped lead FGCU to a 41-17 record and a trip to the NCAA Div. II South Regional in 2006.

Rose also spent time coaching in the Northwoods League and was named Coach of the Year in 2007.

Rose is married to his wife Sara.

Erik Maas is entering his second year as the top assistant coach for the University of Montevallo baseball program. Maas serves as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator.

In his first season, Maas redirected the Falcon pitching staff and helped them drop their team ERA from 8.32 to 5.37 and was instrumental in developing a crew that allowed 152 fewer runs, 68 fewer hits and 83 fewer walks than the season before his arrival.

He came to Montevallo after spending the three previous years as manager of the Alexandria Beetles of the Northwoods League. He was also the Director of Operations for the Beetles the past two seasons.

He began his coaching career at Flagler College after spending two seasons as a pitcher for the Saints. He was the junior varsity pitching coach and varsity assistant for the 2003 season. He then accepted the assistant coach position at the University of North Alabama where he coached for the 2004, 2005 and 2006 seasons. Maas then took a position at Tennessee Wesleyan College as the head assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the 2007 season.

Starting in the summer of 2004 Maas began working with the Alexandria Beetles as a pitching coach and spent the next five summers within the organization as a pitching coach, manager and most recently the director of operations.

While at Alexandria he helped set the franchise record for wins twice, 2005 as the assistant and 2006 as the head coach. He is ranked ninth All-Time in Northwoods League history in victories (103) and 13th in overall win percentage (.529) as head coach. He helped develop 36 players into professional baseball, including five players who went on to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) (Casey Coleman, Allen Craig, Lucas Duda, Nick Hundley and Danny Worth).

As head assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Tennessee Wesleyan College he helped guide the team to a 46-14 record, an AAC championship, AAC tournament championship and Regional Runner-up. He was part of the first team in AAC history to go undefeated in conference regular season and tournament play (21-0). TWC finished the year ranked seventh in the country. He assisted in the development of five players who made it into professional baseball.

Maas helped lead UNA to a combined 147-77-1 record in three years and a Gulf South Conference East Division Title in 2005. He helped lower UNA's team ERA from 4.95 in 2003 to 3.43 in 2006. UNA also set a conference record with a 19 game regular season win streak. He helped develop six players into professional baseball, including one into the MLB (Sergio Romo).

Maas is a 2003 graduate of Flagler College with a bachelor's degree in communication and a minor in advertising. He earned his master's of business administration in 2006 from the University of North Alabama.

Matt Rademacher is entering his first season as an assistant coach of the University of Montevallo baseball program.

He came to Montevallo after spending one season as a volunteer assistant coach at Georgia Southern University. Rademacher coached the GSU catchers, assisted with hitting instruction and coached first base. Georgia Southern won the 2011 Southern Conference Championship and participated in the NCAA Regionals at Columbia, SC. While at GSU, Rademacher was fortunate to coach Southern Conference Player of the Year and NCAA All-American Victor Roache and Kansas City Royals draftee Shawn Payne. The Eagles also improved behind the plate from their 2010 campaign in fielding percentage, caught-stealing percentage and passed balls allowed.

In 2010 he spent the season at the Air Force Academy, serving as the volunteer assistant. He worked directly with the Falcon catchers, while also helping supervise the hitters. He helped guide catcher Garrett Custons to three freshman All-America honors. Custons was named to the Louisville Slugger Freshman All-America Team by Collegiate Baseball, Ping!Baseball Freshman All-America Team and Pro-Line Athletic NCBWA Freshman All-America Team. Custons finished the year with a .483% caught-stealing.

Rademacher also spent a summer coaching in the Northwoods Collegiate League for the Madison Mallards. As the pitching coach, Rademacher tutored the pitching staff to the second-best ERA in the league (3.56) while also leading the league in strikeouts and owning the league’s lowest opponent batting average of .237.

He has coached 14 players who have moved onto the professional ranks in his short coaching career at the collegiate level.

He finished his professional playing career before joining the Air Force staff, playing most recently with the Traverse City Beach Bums of the Frontier Independent League. He helped anchor a pitching staff that was second in the league in ERA.

Collegiately, Rademacher earned First Team All-Big South and Second Team All-Region honors as a catcher his senior season with Coastal Carolina University. As a captain for the Chanticleers, CCU hosted their first NCAA regional in school history. An all-around student-athlete, Rademacher also excelled in the classroom, earning all-Big South Academic honors in both 2006 and 2007.

Prior to Coastal Carolina, Rademacher spent three years at the University of Michigan. From 2003-06, Rademacher spent the summers in Alexandria, Minn., playing for the Alexandria Beetles of the Northwoods League.

A native of Bay City, Mich., Rademacher is a 2007 graduate of Coastal Carolina University with a Bachelor of Arts in English.