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May 3, 2004

Sanderholm leaving Cowley baseball team after four years as an assistant

Having won a national championship at Cowley as a player, and having been a part of close to 170 wins as an assistant coach at the school, Aaron Sanderholm is leaving the Tiger baseball program at the end of the season.

Sanderholm played center field for the Tigers in 1996 and in 1997, the first of two national championship seasons. He then transferred to Washburn University in Topeka and played two seasons for the Ichabods. After earning his bachelor’s degree in general studies, Sanderholm stayed on at Washburn as an assistant coach.

He joined the Tiger coaching staff in the 2001 season, and helped lead Cowley to a third place finish at that year’s NJCAA World Series. He has helped Cowley remain a perennial power in the Jayhawk Conference Eastern Division while working with the team’s outfielders, and serving as the team’s first base coach.

Sanderholm has thoroughly enjoyed his time coaching with the Tigers.

“The four years I have had here have been special,” Sanderholm said. “I have made some connections with some kids that I would not have made if I would not have been doing this. It’s been a lot of fun. I’ll miss the camraderie of being around the guys.”

Sanderholm is going into business with his uncle Brian at Ark City Glass Company. He will also give up his duties as dorm manager of the Storbeck Dormitory. With a two-year old daughter, Sanderholm said moving out of the dorms was essential.

“I’m looking forward to the new job, but I’ll miss the baseball part of it,” Sanderholm said. “I’ve got other responsibilities now, and with a young one it’s time to move on and put her first and foremost.”

Cowley head coach Dave Burroughs will miss working with Sanderholm, but is happy he will still be in town.

“It’s been a good ride,” Burroughs said. “When they are a former player of yours it goes deeper than a coach-coach relationship, it’s like seeing somebody in your family move on. We wish him the best, and we can never repay what he has done for our program.”