Kris Doorey completed his 20th season as head coach of the Plattsburgh State baseball team in 2021. Doorey was the first head coach of the modern era since the program was brought back for the 2002 season.
The three-time SUNYAC Coach of the Year is the winningest coach in school history with 307 career victories.
In July 2009, Doorey was appointed to a three-year term on the NCAA Division III Baseball Committee that administers the national championship, conducts regional rankings and develops playing rules governing the sport.
Doorey produced 42 All-State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) selections, 21 all-region picks, two-time Jewish Sports Review All-American Matt Kahan and 2014 ABCA/Rawlings National Gold Glove Team member Yuya Osawa in his Plattsburgh State tenure.
In 2015, Doorey saw senior catcher Frank Buksa accumulate four postseason awards, including two All-Region second-team selections. Fellow senior Mike Vargues was named to the All-SUNYAC second team and ABCA New York All-Region Third Team.
Doorey's 2014 campaign saw him reach the 300-win plateau with a 6-0 conference triumph over The College at Brockport on April 12, 2014. During that season, Doorey oversaw ABCA/Rawlings All-New York Region Third-Team pitcher Joe Leddy and made some more Plattsburgh State baseball history when Yuya Osawa was named the program's first-ever recipient of an ABCA/Rawlings National Gold Glove award. Two of his players - Frank Buksa (First Team) and Nick Lupo (Second Team) - were selected as All-SUNYAC players at the conclusion of the Cardinals' 14-22 season.
In 2013, Doorey saw senior pitcher Brian Burns capture All-SUNYAC Second Team and ABCA/Rawlings All-New York Region Third Team plaudits after closing out one of the most successful pitching careers in Plattsburgh State history. Doorey led the Cardinals to a SUNYAC Tournament appearance in 2012. Plattsburgh State wrapped up that campaign with a 22-17 overall record.
Despite winning six of their final eight contests in the 2011 season, the Cardinals struggled for consistency throughout the year. Doorey led the team to an 18-19 overall record while compiling an 8-10 conference record. Despite missing out on post season play, the Cardinals still managed to gain individual accolades. Pat Shaughnessy (First Team) and Danny Roeser (Second Team) were named to the All-SUNYAC teams, while Roeser (Third Team) and Tyler Greene (Golden Glove) were named ABCA All-New York region selections.
The 2010 season marked the best year for Plattsburgh State baseball since the program was resurrected in 2002 after a 26-year hiatus at the College. Tenth-year head coach Kris Doorey oversaw many historical firsts for the Cardinals: a 30-win season, national rankings in the ABCA coaches' and D3baseball.com polls and a No. 2 regional ranking. In addition, 40 club records were set or tied, including an 18-game win streak and .750 winning percentage.
During the 2009 campaign, he was named the SUNYAC Coach of the Year for the second time while piloting the Cardinals to nine more wins than the year before, going from 15-21 to 24-17 overall. Plattsburgh registered the fourth-most victories in school history and recorded its first-ever win in the SUNYAC Tournament by upsetting the second-seeded Fredonia State Blue Devils, 8-6, in come from behind fashion. The team had to replace three offensive starters, plus two pitchers, from last season and still finished in a third-place tie (7-5) in the conference standings to clinch its seventh straight postseason berth. In addition, Kyle Kowalowski became the first Plattsburgh baseball player to receive ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-America (First Team) accolades, plus Erik Schwind and Billy Davis made it a school-record three Cardinals on the academic all-district baseball squad.
In 2007, Plattsburgh (25-15 overall) went 9-5 in SUNYAC games and a second-place tie for its highest finish ever in the conference. The Cardinals beat two nationally-ranked opponents in No. 3 Cortland and No. 29 Brockport.
The 2006 Cardinals enjoyed one of their best seasons by going 27-14 (10-4 SUNYAC) while setting school records for victories, winning percentage of .659 (based on a 15-game schedule) and conference wins. Five players--Jon Dumas, Dan Hoffman, Dave Waldron, Todd Hughes and Zack Welch--received preseason All-America accolades by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. Plattsburgh tied a school record when it was regionally ranked No. 5 by the American Baseball Coaches' Association poll.
In 2005, the Cardinals went 25-13 overall for their first winning season since 1965, including an 8-6 conference record, earning SUNYAC and Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III tournament bids. Nine players scored All-SUNYAC honors and three were named all-region, both school records.
In just Doorey's second season, Plattsburgh had a 13-19 mark, was 7-7 playing its first full SUNYAC schedule and made the conference tournament for the first time. Doorey's peers took notice of him building respectability in a fledging program and voted him the 2003 SUNYAC Coach of the Year.
Doorey came to Plattsburgh after a four-year stint as assistant and then head coach at Division III MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill. After helping the Highlanders to a 30-17 record in 1998 when he was an assistant, he was promoted to the top spot in 1999 and became one of the youngest head coaches in the nation at the time. He compiled a 62-61-1 ledger from 1999 to 2001.
In his first season, Doorey's Highlanders achieved a 25-18 mark, including a 9-5 record in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The following year, they finished 23-23 but were ranked as high as third in the NCAA Division III national poll after taking 15 of the first 22 games and defeating four preseason-Top 10 teams. All told, he mentored four all-region, 15 All-SLIAC and seven Academic All-Conference players at MacMurray.
Doorey started his career as an assistant coach at the University of Stony Brook, his alma mater, from 1995 to 1997. During that time, the Seawolves earned the school's first-ever NCAA Division III playoff bid in 1995 and a trip to the ECAC Division II playoffs the following year.
Doorey recorded a 369-424-1 (.465) career coaching record that covered 23 NCAA seasons, including a 307-363 (.458) mark with the Cardinals. He recorded his 100th win with the Cardinals on April 26, 2007, against No. 3 Cortland for the program's best victory over an opponent rated that high in the national rankings. Overall victory No. 200 came against SUNY Purchase, 10-2 on April 11, 2009, while at Plattsburgh. Doorey's 300th win as a Cardinal came against SUNY New Paltz (11-6) on April 27, 2019.
A native of Peru, N.Y., Doorey is a 1996 Stony Brook graduate with a bachelor of arts degree in history. He has been a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association since 1998, and conducts the North Country Baseball Camp for grades 1-11.
Doorey and his wife Michelle were married in August 2003. Michelle (Bushaw) was a member of the Plattsburgh State women's basketball team (1989-92). The couple has a son, Brady (16), and a daughter, Ava (13).
Kris Doorey Career Coaching Record
| Season |
School |
Record |
Pct. |
Conf./Place |
Note |
| 1999 |
MacMurray |
25-18 |
.581 |
9-5/T-2nd |
SLIAC Tournament |
| 2000 |
MacMurray |
23-23 |
.500 |
5-9/T-4th |
SLIAC Tournament |
| 2001 |
MacMurray |
14-20-1 |
.414 |
11-10/4th |
|
| 2002 |
Plattsburgh State |
2-14 |
.125 |
none |
First coach since 1976 |
| 2003 |
Plattsburgh State |
13-19 |
.406 |
7-7/T-3rd |
SUNYAC Coach of the Year |
| 2004 |
Plattsburgh State |
14-23 |
.378 |
7-7/T-4th |
Most victories ever at the time |
| 2005 |
Plattsburgh State |
25-13 |
.658 |
8-6/3rd |
SUNYAC, ECAC Tournaments |
| 2006 |
Plattsburgh State |
27-14 |
.659 |
10-4/3rd |
School record SUNYAC wins |
| 2007 |
Plattsburgh State |
25-15 |
.625 |
9-5/T-2nd |
Highest finish ever in SUNYAC |
| 2008 |
Plattsburgh State |
15-21 |
.417 |
7-7/T-3rd |
6th-straight postseason berth |
| 2009 |
Plattsburgh State |
24-17 |
.585 |
7-5/T-3rd |
1st postseason win in SUNYACs |
| 2010 |
Plattsburgh State |
30-10 |
.750 |
7-5/T-2nd |
35 school records set or tied |
| 2011 |
Plattsburgh State |
18-19 |
.486 |
8-10/5th |
|
| 2012 |
Plattsburgh State |
22-17 |
.564 |
9-9/T-3rd |
SUNYAC Coach of the Year |
| 2013 |
Plattsburgh State |
14-23 |
.378 |
4-14/7th |
One All-SUNYAC Team Selection |
| 2014 |
Plattsburgh State |
14-22 |
.389 |
7-11/5th |
Two All-SUNYAC Selections, One All-Region Selection, One ABCA National Gold Glove Winner |
| 2015 |
Plattsburgh State |
14-20 |
.412 |
6-12/5th |
Four All-SUNYAC Selections |
| 2016 |
Plattsburgh State |
6-30 |
.167 |
2-16/7th |
|
| 2017 |
Plattsburgh State |
13-23 |
.361 |
5-13/6th |
One All-SUNYAC Team selection |
| 2018 |
Plattsburgh State |
12-26 |
.315 |
2-16/7th |
One All-SUNYAC Team selection |
| 2019 |
Plattsburgh State |
12-20 |
.375 |
6-12/6th |
One All-SUNYAC Team selection |
| 2020 |
Plattsburgh State |
1-4 |
.200 |
0-0/NA |
Season Shortened due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2021 |
Plattsburgh State |
6-14 |
.300 |
5-11/7th |
One All-SUNYAC Team selection |
| 20 yrs. |
School Totals |
307-363 |
.458 |
117-173 |
Program’s winningest coach |
| 23 yrs. |
Career Totals |
369-424-1 |
.465 |
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