Tim Gurnow

Head Coach

Gurnow takes the reigns of the baseball program in the summer of 2023 after serving on the Bearcats’ staff since the fall of 2019. He previously served as an assistant coach with McKendree baseball.

Gurnow held the hitting coach role for the last three years and the recruiting coordinator role with the Bearcats for the last two seasons, which included a record-breaking year in 2022 in both offense and overall finish. The Bearcats battery, under Gurnow's tutelage, blasted a single-season program mark of 95 home runs in just 47 games while the team earned its best GLVC season since joining Division II. The offense has taken tremendous strides over the duration behind his coaching, featuring multiple All-GLVC and All-Region honors for batters over the last three seasons. Throughout his time with the Bearcats, he has assisted in administrative and operational facets of the baseball program. 

Prior to McKendree, Gurnow, a Festus, Missouri-native, was the assistant coach at Blackburn College in Carlinville while also working as a head coach for Recruits Baseball Club. With Blackburn, he helped with all areas of the program while heading up hitting practice plans and catcher development. For Recruits Baseball Club, Gurnow was the leader of the 18u, 16u, 15u, and 14u ball clubs, also running player development, hitting, and catching instruction for all levels within the club. 

Gurnow earned his undergraduate degree from Hannibal-LaGrange University in 2018 in sport and recreation management before earning his graduate degree from McKendree in 2021. While attending Hannibal-LaGrange, he was an All-AMC selection as a catcher for the Trojans.