In his 7th season Ritch Price with University of Kansas, he has elevated the Jayhawks baseball program to new heights. Price led the Jayhawks to a Big 12 Tournament Championship and a spot in the NCAA Regionals in 2006. It was the school’s first conference championship in baseball in nearly 50 years. He has led his teams to 30-plus win seasons in five of his first six years, marking the first time a baseball coach has achieved this at Kansas.

Known around the collegiate baseball community as a tireless worker and enthusiastic recruiter, Price was named the 32nd head baseball coach at the University of Kansas on July 1, 2002.

In 2008 Price was inducted into the California Community College Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in May.

Before Kansas Price spent eight seasons at Cal Poly. In his last three seasons with the Mustangs, Price led the team to three-straight 30-win seasons, including a third-place finish in the Big West Conference in 2002.

Price has a collegiate head coaching career record of 821-618-2 (.570) (at Kansas, Cal Poly, De Anza Community College and Menlo College) and has developed a reputation as a coach who builds baseball programs. After turning Menlo College into a winner from 1983-86, he put De Anza Community College on the map with four conference titles during his eight-year reign. Price was named head coach at Cal Poly on July 26, 1994, and was chosen to guide the Mustangs from NCAA II into the Division I era. After success at Cal Poly, Price was named the head coach at Kansas in 2002.

Price has been named conference coach of the year nine times during his time as a leader on the diamond. He was named Coach of the Year in the Coast Conference four times during his eight seasons at De Anza Community College and was also the top coach in the Western Athletic Conference at Cal Poly in 1996.