Baseball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- dlatham1@tulane.edu
- Hometown:
- Covington, La.
Former Tulane baseball standout, and 2019 Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame Inductee, Daniel Latham is in his third season as an assistant coach/pitching coach for his Alma Mater.
In 2020, Latham oversaw a pitching staff that posted a total earned run average of 3.06 - a figure that ranked fourth in the American Athletic Conference.Â
Under Latham’s watchful eye, Tulane starter Braden Olthoff totaled a league-best earned run average of 0.32. His 47 strikeouts were also led the conference. Following the year, Bradon Olthoff earned Second Team All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball. Fellow pitcher Luke Jannetta also was honored by Collegiate Baseball, as he was selected Freshman All-America.
Latham, who holds the Green Wave career record for saves, spent seven years in the same position at Southeastern Louisiana. Under his tutelage, the SLU pitching staffs have ranked in the top 100 nationally in ERA and strikeout-to-walk ratio in each of his fina five seasons. In 2018, Latham's staff ranked 38th with a 3.62 team ERA and sixth nationally with a 3.08 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
At Southeastern, Latham built one of the most efficient pitching staffs in the nation, earning the distinction as one of only five programs in the nation to finish in the top 30 in ERA from 2014-16. In 2016 the Lions finished eighth in the nation with a 3.01 ERA, 38th with a 2.42 strike-to-walk ratio and 22nd in WHIP. In 2014 and 2015 SLU ranked 27th and 28th in ERA, respectively, and the 2015 squad ranked seventh with a 3.27 strike-to-walk ratio.
With Latham as pitching coach, SLU won two Southland Conference Championships and played in three NCAA Tournaments. His pitchers totaled 15 All-Southland Conference honors in seven seasons, including two SLC Relief Pitchers of the Year and a conference Freshman of the Year. In addition, Stefan Lopez earned All-America honors in 2012. He also was named National Stopper of the Year. Nine Lion pitchers tutored by Latham have been drafted in the Major League Baseball Draft.
Prior to his time at SLU, Latham spent a year as pitching coach at VMI in 2011, where he guided the Keydets pitching staff to the fourth-lowest team ERA in program history. He served as volunteer assistant coach at High Point in 2009-10. He was a member of the 2007 Appalachian League Champion Elizabethton Twins after being drafted in the 15th-round of the MLB Draft out of Tulane.
As a player at Tulane from 2004-07, the Covington, La., native compiled 43 saves, which still ranks ninth in NCAA history. He was the closer on Tulane's 2005 Conference USA Championship and College World Series team, as well as the 2004 Super Regional and 2006 NCAA Regional squads.
Latham still ranks second all-time at Tulane with 122 pitching appearances and third with 1.77 walks per nine innings. He compiled a career-high 14 saves in 35 appearances in 2006, 13 saves in 31 appearances in 2005 and 10 saves in 299 appearances in 2007, all of which rank among the top 10 single seasons in program history.
He was named to the 2004 C-USA All-Freshman Team, earned All-Star honors in the Cape Cod League in 2006, was a 2007 preseason All-American third team by the NCBWA and was placed on the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll all four seasons. Latham received his bachelor's degree in communication from Tulane in 2007.
Latham and his wife Shiloh have one son, Keane.
