Wichita State Athletics

Mike Sirianni was named the Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator for the Wichita State baseball program in June 2019 and enters his fourth season with the Shockers in 2023.

Sirianni has helped spearhead two of the best recruiting classes in Wichita State baseball history, bringing in the #32 ranked class in 2021 and the #26 ranked class in 2022 (both rankings according to Perfect Game).

Sirianni helped lead Wichita State to a 31-23 overall record in 2021, including an 18-13 record and third-place finish in the American Athletic Conference. The 18 conference wins and third-place finish in the AAC both marked program records since WSU joined the conference prior to the 2018 season.

In addition, the Shockers had five players named All-Conference First Team in The American, including Freshman All-American and Newcomer Pitcher of the Year, Jace Kaminska, reliever Aaron Haase, infielders Paxton Wallace and Garrett Kocis, and outfielder Corrigan Bartlett. The five all-conference honorees also were a program-best since becoming members of the AAC. 

In his inaugural campaign as an assistant coach at WSU in 2020, Sirianni assisted the Shockers to a 13-2 record before the season was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Wichita State ended the season on a 12-game winning streak -- its longest streak since 2008. 

He coached freshman outfielder Couper Cornblum, who was tabbed a Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American and was named the "Best Freshman" in The American by D1Baseball.com.
 
Sirianni was the volunteer assistant coach for the Shockers from 2015-16 and returned to Wichita State after head coaching stints at Tarleton State and Regis University.
 
While at Regis, a Division II school in Denver, Colo., Sirianni made an immediate impact. He took over the reins of a program that was 21 games under .500 over the previous three seasons combined (60-81) and led the Rangers to 26 victories in his debut season in 2017. Over the next two seasons, Sirianni added 47 more victories to his ledger. In 2018, the Rangers recorded their first winning season in five years with Sirianni at the helm.
 
In 2018, Sirianni coached the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year Brad Thoutt. He also had 20 all-conference selections in his three seasons with the Rangers and boasted the highest team GPA in the RMAC in 2017.
 
Prior to his time at Regis, Sirianni spent two seasons as a volunteer assistant coach for the Shockers where he assisted with the offense and helped coach three Freshman All-Americans, two all-region selections, one Missouri Valley Conference Freshman of the Year, eight all-conference performers and nine MLB draft picks.
 
From 2011-14, Sirianni was the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Newman University. He helped lead the Jets to the conference tournament two out of the three seasons and to the highest conference finish in school history. He also helped guide the offense to several school records and the team to the best finish in school history.
 
Sirianni recruited and coached six Gold Glove winners and 14 all-conference position players. He also recruited and coached the Freshman of the Year in the Heartland Conference.
 
During the summer in 2009, 2010 and 2011, he was the Head Coach for the Jonesboro Ricemen, an American Legion team. He led the team to the Arkansas State Legion Championship in 2009. During his time with the Ricemen, he led the team to four conference championships and guided 19 players to go on to play college baseball.
 
Prior to coaching at Newman, he had stints with Valley View High School in Arkansas, Iowa Western Community College, Arkansas State and the Cleveland Indians.
 
Sirianni, who is a native of Indianola, Iowa, earned a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from Arkansas State in 2006. In 2017, he earned a master’s degree in health, physical education and recreation from Emporia State.
 
He was a two-year starter at Arkansas State in 2004-05 and set the single season record for runs scored in 2004. He also played two years at Creighton from 2002-03.
 
Mike and his wife Mandy have three daughters.