Two Hamilton County high school baseball teams got new head coaches this week.
On Monday, Hamilton Southeastern announced that Kory Seitz had been recommended as the new coach for the Royals. Seitz is a “lifetime Royal,” said a press release on the HSE Athletics website, having graduated from Southeastern in 1996. He was a three-sport athlete for the Royals and played baseball for his father, Hall of Fame coach Ken Seitz.
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Kory Seitz played baseball at Indiana University, then returned to Southeastern in 2004, having served as an assistant coach for the Royals baseball team ever since. He has been a realtor in central Indiana for 16 years, currently working at the Keller Williams Indy Metro Northeast office. Seitz is married to wife Heather and has three children: Kam, Haleigh and Karson.
“We could not be more excited to welcome Coach Seitz into the role of head coach of the Royals baseball program,” said Southeastern athletic director Greg Habegger. “Kory has literally been a Royal all his life as he grew up watching his father’s teams build an incredible tradition at HSE. He was a standout player himself and is in the HSE Hall of Fame. He has faithfully served as an assistant coach during the tenure of four head coaches. We can’t wait to watch Kory put his own stamp on the Royals Baseball Program.”
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On Tuesday, Carmel announced the hiring of Ty Neal as the Greyhounds’ new head baseball coach. Neal spent 19 years as a college baseball coach, serving as an assistant coach at Miami of Ohio (his alma mater), Southern Illinois, Cincinnati and Indiana before spending four years at the head coach at Cincinnati. Neal was also the quality coach at Arizona State for a year.