Joe Kilburg - Hitting and Catchers Coach
To contact Coach Kilburg, please call him on campus at either 440-826-2182 or 2184 or e-mail him at jkilburg@bw.edu.
Joe Kilburg is the hitting and catchers coach at Baldwin-Wallace College. Before joining B-W’s staff, he coached high school baseball at Cleveland Central Catholic for 20 years and was named North Coast Conference Coach of the Year three times.
For the past 26 years, Coach Kilburg has coached summer teams at all levels of amateur baseball. In addition to his coaching assignments and his work as an instructor at the well-respected Phil Bova Baseball Camp, Coach Kilburg directs the B-W Holiday Skills Camp each December. He also was an associate scout with the Cleveland Indians.
As a biology and general science teacher at Cleveland Central Catholic High School, Coach Kilburg has been named Teacher of the Year and honored as a Teacher of Excellence by the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. He has also been nominated for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching and included in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. In 1995, Baseball America named Coach Kilburg, his wife Judy and their two sons Joe and Jim as Ohio’s Amateur Baseball Family of the Year.