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Cougill commanding Reivers in first season as Iowa Western baseball coach



COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KMTV) — There’s a new face calling pitches for Iowa Western’s baseball team. Ryan Cougill spent the past 10 years coaching at Yavapai College, leading them to a JUCO World Series championship in 2016 and an appearance the year before. He takes command of a Reivers team that said goodbye to its 19-year head coach Mark Rardin, who is now coaching at Western Kentucky. Cougill said it took some time to adjust to the change.

“I made a joke at some point, I think it was around September or October that I didn’t know where the toilet paper was,” he said with a laugh. You might think taking over for a coach who earned 934 wins, three NJCAA D1 National Championships championships on 12 JUCO World Series appearances, three national Coach of the Year honors and more, would be intimidating. Cougill said he doesn’t really think about it. “The pressure is perhaps external with some things, but it’s not a realization for me,” he said. “There’s always pressure internally for me.”