Bio

    Warnimont enters his 23rd season as the winningest head coach at the University of Rio Grande. In his previous 22 seasons, the RedStorm have averaged 30 wins annually while consistently playing a competitive schedule. Warnimont was just recently elected into the Redstorm Hall-of-fame.

    In Warnimont’s 34-year coaching career, he has totaled 909 victories which puts him 7th on the active NAIA coaches list for wins. In 2010, Warnimont guided the RedStorm to their first conference championship since 1978 and first National Tournament appearance. In 2015 and 2016, the RedStorm won the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament.  Finished runner-up in the Daytona Bracket of the NAIA National Tournament, and played in the Opening round of the NAIA Tournament in Kingsport, Tennessee respectively.

    Aggressive is exactly the way to describe Warnimont’s approach and his history. In his previous coaching positions at Ashland University and Salem International, Warnimont’s teams rewrote the team and individual school record books. In 1995, he guided Ashland to the Division II College World Series in Montgomery, Alabama. Warnimont accomplished that feat in just five short years at the helm.  In 1999, Warnimont’s Salem International team led all collegiate divisions in stolen bases with an average of 3.92 per game. Warnimont spent seven years at Ashland where he totaled 167 wins including a conference championship, a regional championship, and a trip to the Division II World Series. Prior to Ashland, Warnimont began his head coaching career at Bethany College where he led the Bison to a share of the conference championship in 1989. Warnimont also served as an assistant at Ohio State where he worked as a graduate assistant, Capital University, and Cornell University. Warnimont coached alongside Ted Thoren in 1996 as the two headed the Austrian National Team in the “B” Pool tournament in Hull, England where the team’s fourth-place finish was the country’s best finish ever. Warnimont is highly-respected on the regional and national level and has served on numerous national committees, including the Regional Selection Committee and the All-American Committee for the North Atlantic Region and the North Central Region.

    In 2015, Warnimont was selected as the rater for the River States Conference and has recently taken over as the ARC Chair for the Midwest Region in 2019.  Warnimont was also named as an Associate Scout with the Boston Red Sox organization in 2015.  He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Physical Education in 1986 from Ohio Wesleyan University where he was All-Conference in both baseball and football. In baseball, Warnimont still holds records for most home runs in a game (3) and runs scored in a game (6). He and his wife, Sue, reside in Rio Grande. The Warnimont’s have two sons, Caleb, a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Ty, who is a mathematics teacher and coaches football, and baseball at Gallia Academy High School.