Baseball
- Title:
- Volunteer Assistant Coach (1st season)
- Email:
- cardenag@pfw.edu
- Phone:
- (260) 481-5455
Gordon Cardenas enters his first season as a volunteer assistant coach for the Purdue Fort Wayne Baseball program in 2019.
Prior to coaching, Cardenas played professionally one year in Mexican Baseball Leagues as a relief pitcher. In the winter league he helped guide his team to the quarterfinals of the playoffs. In the spring league, he was selected to pitch on All-Star team that faced the Liga Norte All Stars in La Paz, Mexico.
Collegiately Cardenas pitched for three Division I schools and a top junior college. He started his career at the University of Hawaii, where he made 13 appearances and pitched 23 innings as a true freshman. His sophomore season he pitched for Fullerton College where he threw 75 innings and had a 3.94 ERA. His junior year he pitched for Auburn University where he had a team leading ERA of 2.70 in 17 appearances and did not allow an earned run in 11 out of 17 games. Cardenas completed his collegiate career as a graduate transfer at Marshall University where he led the team with 23 appearances and had a batting average against of 0.266. Cardenas would be named to the All-Academic team that season.
A native of Manhattan Beach, California, Cardenas received his Master’s degree from Marshall University in Leadership Studies and his Undergraduate degree from Auburn University in Public Administration.
