Ashford baseball assistant coach Darryl Cochran enters his 11th year as the head varsity coach at Camanche High School in Camanche, Iowa, and his fourth season assisting the Saints' program. He has won over 150 games at the varsity level and is averaging nearly 15 wins per season.

Since joining the Big East Conference in 2004, under Cochran, Camanche has won two conference titles, recorded two second-place finishes and a third-place performance. He has produced eight all-state players, 17 all-district performers and 54 all-conference players. 11 of his players have gone on to play at the collegiate level.

In 2008, Cochran was named the head coach of the Big East squad in the Big East vs. Eastern Iowa Hawkeye Senior All-Star Challenge. In 2006, he was selected by the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association as one of the assistant coaches for the Small Schools East Squad in the 30th annual All-Star Series held in Clinton, Iowa, at Alliant Energy Field. Cochran served as an assistant on Camanche's 1996 state-qualifying baseball team.

Cochran is a graduate of Northeast Missouri State University, now Truman State (1985-88), receiving his Bachelor of Arts and Master's degree in education. He also earned his A.A. degree from Iowa Central Community College (1983-84).

Cochran resides in Camanche, Iowa, with his wife and three children.

The Cochran File

• Assistant Baseball Coach - Lesterville (Mo.) High School (1987-91)
• Head Sophomore/Assistant Varsity Baseball Coach - Camanche High School (1993-98)
• Head Varsity Baseball Coach - Camanche High School (1999-Present)
• Assistant Baseball Coach - Ashford University (2005-Present)