It is game day for the City College baseball team, and hours before the first pitch, head coach Derek Sullivan sits at his desk in his office filling out a line-up sheet. Behind him stands a cinder-block wall that has been painted one of the school’s official colors: cardinal red. Hanging on this wall is a large piece of glass with a decal of the word “City” centered on it.
Sullivan, along with six other coaches on the Panthers’ baseball staff, are former student athletes at City College. It’s a cycle that has helped carry on many of the program’s traditions,
according to the Panthers’ third base coach Andrew Henning.
“We’ve had a foundation in place here [at City College] for the past 40 years, and we always say it doesn’t really matter who coaches here — it’s about the process over the many years,” Henning said.
Henning is in his eighth year as a coach at City College, but it is his first as the team’s third base coach. He spent the previous seven years as the Panthers’ assistant pitching coach. As a player, Henning was a red-shirt freshman in 2005 and played through 2007. During his time as a student athlete at City College, Henning said he suffered a serious and bizarre injury.
“It was a freak accident,” Henning said. “I snapped my humerus while throwing a pitch and had five or six surgeries on it, but it never really got back to being the same as it once was.”
Henning went on to play baseball at San Diego State University for a year, but in 2008 he returned to City College, excited to begin his career in coaching at a college with such a rich history.
“[City College] is well known throughout the nation for what we do heremand the type of players that come out of here, which is really cool,” Henning said.
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Being a baseball coach runs in the family for the Henning brothers. Their father, Rich Henning, is the head coach of the baseball team at Christian Brothers High School.
Bo is in his first full year as a coach for the Panthers. Last season he was a part-time coach at City College while he coached the freshman and junior varsity teams at Christian Brothers High School.
One of the baseball team’s longest active coaches is hitting coach Pete Pryor, who has been a part of the Panthers staff since 2001. Pryor played first base for City College from 1992 to 1993.
In 1993 he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates, but turned down the chance to go pro to continue playing college ball at the University of Kentucky. After two years of playing college baseball for Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference, Pryor was signed by the Chicago White Sox in 1996. According to Pryor, he was the very last player cut by the White Sox during spring training in 1997.
Despite getting a taste of big league baseball, Pryor said he enjoyed playing college baseball more.
“College is better,” said Pryor. “The SEC is the best conference in the country, and I was fortunate enough to go play there.”
Even though he played for Kentucky, a major four-year university, Pryor said the coaches he had when he was at City College influenced his career in baseball more than anyone.
“[At] this level of coaching you make the biggest impact on a kid’s life,” Pryor said.
