The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
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Caleb Longley is in his third season on the Texas Baseball staff as an assistant coach in 2024. Longley continues to work with the outfielders and hitters and added the role of recruiting coordinator. Joining the program prior to the 2022 season, Longley has helped lead the Longhorns to three of the most productive offensive seasons in program history.
With Longley on staff, Texas has produced the three highest home run totals in school history. The Longhorns hit a program record 128 homers in 2022, then followed that up with 91 in 2023 and eclipsed the 100-homer mark again in 2024. The 2022 team had seven players with double-digit homer runs, including the national leader and Golden Spikes Award winner Ivan Melendez. Every regular starter on the 2023 team reached a new career-high in homers and five players reached double-digits.
As recruiting coordinator, Longley’s first signing class in 2024 was ranked the No. 3 class in the country according to Baseball America. The class consisted of 10 high school student-athletes from Texas, three from California, as well as one from Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Mississippi, New York and North Carolina. The 2025 class is also shaping up to be outstanding, being ranked No. 2 by Perfect Game.
The 2024 Longhorns made their fourth-consecutive NCAA Regional appearance and the team hit the second-most home runs in program history with 112. Outfielder Max Belyeu had a breakout sophomore season and was named the Big 12 Player of the Year. Belyeu shared the team lead with 18 home runs and batted .329 with 15 doubles, one triple and 53 RBI. Jared Thomas and Jalin Flores were also among the team’s leaders offensively. Thomas batted leadoff and led the team in hitting with a .349 average and 61 runs scored to go with 15 doubles, 16 homers and 18 stolen bases. Flores started all 60 games at shortstop and shared the team lead with 18 home runs and led the Longhorns with 56 RBI, while batting .340. The catching duo of Rylan Galvan and Kimble Schuessler also made great strides in 2024. Galvan, a sophomore, started 36 games behind the plate and 14 as designated hitter, batting .287 with 14 doubles, eight homers and 37 RBI. Schuessler returned from injury and caught 22 games with 24 starts at DH, batting .343 with 14 doubles, 10 homers and 30 RBI.
The 2023 team returned only two everyday starters in the lineup and just 23 home runs from the previous season and still came up just one game short of advancing to a third-straight College World Series. Despite featuring an almost entirely new lineup, the Longhorns batted .293 as a team and averaged just over seven runs per game. Longley’s outfield trio of Dylan Campbell, Eric Kennedy and Porter Brown all had exceptional seasons. Campbell was a First Team All-Big 12 selection and led the team with a .339 batting average, 19 doubles, 65 runs scored and 26 stolen bases. He also hit a career-best 13 home runs and was stellar defensively with eight outfield assists. Brown was a unanimous First Team All-Big 12 pick and batted .323 with 12 doubles, 59 RBI and 36 runs scored. Kennedy batted .306 and hit a career-high 17 homers with 47 RBI and 57 runs scored. In all, six Texas hitters landed on the All-Big 12 teams with three first team selections. Campbell and Brown were joined by catcher Garret Guillemette on the first team, while infielder Peyton Powell and Kennedy were on the second team and infielder Jared Thomas was named Honorable Mention.
In Longley’s first season on the Texas staff in 2022, the Longhorns returned to the College World Series for the second-consecutive season and NCAA record 38th time. Texas smashed the program record with 128 home runs, surpassing the 2010 squad that hit 81. The best power hitting team in program history slugged .550 to smash the previous program record of .508 set in 1974. Leading the way offensively, Ivan Melendez became the first Texas player to win the USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award and swept the national player of the year awards. Melendez hit a Longhorns record 32 home runs, surpassing Kyle Russell’s Texas record 28 homers in 2007 and Kris Bryant’s BBCOR era record of 31 homers in 2013. Melendez batted .387 and led the country with 94 RBI and an .863 slugging percentage. Along with Melendez’s great season, Murphy Stehly had a breakout year batting .367 with 19 homers and 61 RBI and was named a second team All-American. Melendez and Stehly led a total of seven Longhorn hitters named to the All-Big 12 teams and were joined by catcher Silas Ardoin on the first team. Infielders Trey Faltine and Skyler Messinger landed on the second team, while outfielder Douglas Hodo III and designated hitter Austin Todd were named Honorable Mention.
Longley joined the Texas Baseball staff in August 2021, following two seasons with the Arizona State baseball program.
A former East Tennessee State standout and high-performance training coach, Longley helped train and develop several draft picks while at Arizona State including the 2020 No. 1 overall pick Spencer Torklelson and fellow first rounder Alika Williams.
Last season Longley helped the Sun Devils advance to the NCAA Regional and had a trio of freshmen All-Americans, including highly decorated DH/first baseman Ethan Long. Long was a consensus All-American after slugging 16 homers and slashing .340/.417/.704.
Longley is also the creator and CEO of MARV training - a unique multidimensional training tool focused on hitting and arm care routines that is used across numerous sports across the country, including MLB, NBA, NFL and numerous NCAA Division I sports (football, baseball, softball, volleyball).
Longley previously worked as a quarterback trainer where he trained several NFL and NCAA Power 5 quarterbacks, while being heavily involved in the draft preparation for First Round Pick Dwayne Haskins in 2019 and Jalen Hurts in 2020.
During his time working with quarterbacks, Longley developed custom arm care, arm strengthening and activation regimens used by NFL and NCAA quarterbacks. He developed the Quarterback Improvement Curriculum as well as Throwing Program used by numerous quarterbacks across the globe.
He was also the former owner and founder of the High Intent Training, a baseball player development center in Nashville, Tennessee. There he took a holistic approach to training and customizing development plans for each individual athlete. While at "HIT Nashville" Longley was one of the first people in the country to get certified and publish an article for OnBaseU.
Longley was an accomplished Division I baseball player at East Tennessee State, recording 43 career home runs. He slashed .310/.400/.655 with 14 homers, 20 doubles and 50 RBIs during his senior campaign and was named a First Team All-Southern Conference selection in the process. He finished his playing career professionally with the Bloomfield Beavers.
Longley and wife Demi, who played softball at East Tennessee State, were married in 2022.
