Trevor Podratz enters his sixth season as the WOU recruiting coordinator and hitting coach in 2025-26 and his eighth overall season on the coaching staff, where he has always had a hand in coaching the hitters. He also assists head coach Kellen Walker in coaching the catchers, formulating practice plans, fundraising opportunities and coaching third base.
Podratz been at WOU since 2016 minus one season, playing his senior year for the Wolves in 2016 where he was named All-American honborable mention, All-Region first team by two organizations, GNAC Newcomer of the Year and All-GNAC First Team, assisting with the Wolves during the 2017-18 seasons and going to Skagit Valley for a season in 2019 as associate head coach (raising the team's batting average nearly 80 points) before returning to the Wolves.
In his six full seasons as an assistant coach with the Wolves, WOU has won four GNAC regular-season titles, four GNAC tournament titles and made three NCAA West Regional appearances.
As a player at WOU, Podratz hit .391 with seven home runs, 44 RBI, slugged .598 and had a .476 on-base percentage during his 2016 senior season with WOU. He was named honorable mention All-American, ABCA/Rawlings First Team All-West Region DH, NCBWA All-West Region First Team, GNAC Newcomer of the year, GNAC First Team DH and was named Second Team All-West Region by the Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA). Podratz had a 22-game hit streak to close out the regular season, the longest by any WOU player since Grant Glover in 2010.
In the summers during his career, Podratz was an all-star in the North Woods League and winner of the all-star home run derby for the Rochester Honkers (2012), all-star in the Alaska Baseball League for the Anchorage Glacier Pilots (2014) under Darren Westergard, a WOU baseball alum and an all-star in the Western Baseball Association for the San Diego Waves (2015).
Prior to arriving at WOU, Podratz played three seasons at the University of Hawaii where he played in a total of 137 games with 118 starts and 419 at-bats. He compiled 101 hits, 43 runs scored, 20 doubles, six home runs and 63 RBI.
A 2011 graduate of Chaparral High School, the La Jolla, Calif., native lettered three years in baseball and was named a First Team All-League and First Team All-State, along with taking home All-League as a senior. Podratz graduated from Western Oregon with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing in Health Education and Exercise Science.
