Chandler Rose begins his first season as the head baseball coach of the University of Montevallo baseball program.

The seventh head coach in program history, Rose comes to Montevallo after spending the previous four seasons as head assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at the Air Force Academy. Prior to his time at the Academy he spent one season as the assistant at Florida Gulf Coast University. 

Rose was responsible for the AFA infielders and hitters. He also handled the third base coaching duties, summer ball placement for returning players and was heavily involved in the nation-wide recruiting effort. With his Florida background, Rose was primarily responsible for recruiting the southeast region.

Since his arrival at the Academy the Falcons batting average went from .249 in 2007 to .301 in 2010. The .301 average is the highest it has been at the Academy since 2003. Air Force led the nation in triples per game in 2008 and currently leads the nation in triples and triples per game in 2010.

Air Force has also posted three of its best four fielding years in school history since Rose began working with the Falcon infield. The 2010 squad is currently on the pace to break the school record with a .959 percentage, surpassing the .957 mark set by the 2008 and 1979 team. The 2009 team fielded .955.

In 2009, designated hitter Matt Alexander became Air Force's first All-American under Rose's guidance, earning first-team All-NCBWA honors. Freshman Garrett Custons, who Rose recruited out of Sarasota, Fla., currently holds five Air Force freshman records and ranks in the top three in nine freshman categories.

Rose is a 2004 graduate of the University of Central Florida, where he was a two-year letterwinner. Rose was an Atlantic Sun All-Conference selection his senior year as a shortstop and helped lead UCF to the Atlantic Sun Championship and played in the championship of the Tallahassee Regional.

Rose began his collegiate playing career at the University of New Orleans playing for the Privateers as a freshman and sophomore before transferring to UCF.

The Fort Myers, Fla., native got his coaching start as an assistant for the Winter Park Diamond Dogs of the Florida Collegiate League in 2005. Rose has also worked at the University of Florida, UCF and FGCU summer baseball camps.

In his first year as an assistant at Florida Gulf Coast, Rose helped lead FGCU to a 41-17 record and a trip to the NCAA Div. II South Regional in 2006.

Rose is married to his wife Sara.

Erik Maas is entering his first year as the top assistant coach for the University of Montevallo baseball program. Maas will serve as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator. He comes to Montevallo after spending the last three years as manager of the Alexandria Beetles of the Northwoods League. He was also the Director of Operations for the Beetles the past two seasons.

He began his coaching career at Flagler College after spending two seasons as a pitcher for the Saints. He was the junior varsity pitching coach and varsity assistant for the 2003 season. He then accepted the assistant coach position at the University of North Alabama where he coached for the 2004, 2005 and 2006 seasons. Maas then took a position at Tennessee Wesleyan College as the head assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the 2007 season.

Starting in the summer of 2004 Maas began working with the Alexandria Beetles as a pitching coach and spent the next five summers within the organization as a pitching coach, manager and most recently the director of operations.

While at Alexandria he helped set the franchise record for wins twice, 2005 as the assistant and 2006 as the head coach. He is ranked ninth All-Time in Northwoods League history in victories (103) and 13th in overall win percentage (.529) as head coach. He helped develop 36 players into professional baseball, including three players who went on to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) (Nick Hundley, Allen Craig, and Danny Worth).

As head assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Tennessee Wesleyan College he helped guide the team to a 46-14 record, an AAC championship, AAC tournament championship and Regional Runner-up. He was part of the first team in AAC history to go undefeated in conference regular season and tournament play (21-0). TWC finished the year ranked seventh in the country. He assisted in the development of five players who made it into professional baseball.

Maas helped lead UNA to a combined 147-77-1 record in three years and a Gulf South Conference East Division Title in 2005. He helped lower UNA’s team ERA from 4.95 in 2003 to 3.43 in 2006. UNA also set a conference record with a 19 game regular season win streak. He helped develop six players into professional baseball, including one into the MLB (Sergio Romo).

Maas is a 2003 graduate of Flagler College with a bachelor’s degree in communication and a minor in advertising. He earned his master’s of business administration in 2006 from the University of North Alabama.