Kenny Dupont - Baseball Coach

Kenny Dupont

Title:
Assistant Coach
Phone:
731-881-3691

Kenny Dupont enters his first season as an assistant coach at UT Martin after decades of work with the Holmes Community College baseball program.

On the Diamond Dogs coaching staff, Dupont was in charge of pitchers, hitting and recruiting. In his first season, he helped lead the Dogs to their first playoff trip to the NJCAA Region 23 Championship Tournament. In his first four seasons as an assistant coach, the Dogs had a winning campaign and punched their ticket twice to the NJCAA Region 23 Championship Tournament. A total of 20 players went on to play for universities and two were in the Major League Baseball Draft under his mentorship.

As a head coach, the Dogs recorded 17 straight winning seasons and had seven trips to the NJCAA Region 23 Championship Tournament, and seven visits to the MACJC State Championship Tournament. Following the conclusion of the 2001 season, Holmes CC was ranked 20^th in the NJCAA national baseball poll boasting a 34-11 record. The next season, the Dogs went 34-15 and were ranked 18^th in the final polls of the season. Under Dupont, 133 players went on to play at universities and 27 were drafted or signed to play professional baseball.

In 1996-97, he coached former three-time MLB all-star and 2000 gold medalist Roy Oswalt who’s a member of the Houston Astros Hall of Fame after finishing his career as the 2005 NLCS MVP, NL wins leader in 2004 and NL ERA leader in 2006. Oswalt played 13 years in the major leagues with the Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers and Colorado Rockies.

Before joining Holmes CC, he was an assistant coach at George C. Wallace Junior College in Dothan, Ala. under Sammy Frichter. After that, he was an assistant under Mike Knight at Nicholls State in Thibodaux, La.

Dupont served as a scout for the Baltimore Orioles from 1992-2010 and also conducted tryout camps.

He holds 557 career wins since 2000 with a career record of 557-268. In total, he led the Bulldogs to nine appearances in the MACJC State Tournament and eight appearances in the Region XXIII Tournament.

Dupont is originally from St. Bernard, La. and graduated from Troy State University in 1988. He and his wife Christa have four children, Brister, Dixon, Tyler and Trent.