Nick Chinners joined the Charleston Southern baseball coaching staff in the spring of 2017, coming on board as a volunteer assistant coach, before being promoted to Assistant Coach ahead of the 2020 season
Chinners finished up his playing career with the Buccaneers after five years with CSU lining up at first base and catcher. A switch hitter in the lineup, Chinners is ranked among the all-time record holders at CSU in career hits (2nd), hits in a season (3rd), career games played (3rd), career doubles (4th), Career RBI (4th), season RBI (4th), career home runs (5th), and career walks (5th). He was a two-time All-Conference member, a team captain, and a Big South Scholar-Athlete.
Plenty of new faces made immediate impacts to the CSU lineup in 2019 under Chinners' oversight including the Big South's best rookie hitter Max Ryerson, who paced the league's freshmen in batting average (.322), home runs (9) and RBI's (43) while being named the conference's Freshman of the Week twice. Ryerson was joined by fellow classmate and outfielder Kyle Horton as immediate impact bats while veteran centerfielder Josh Litchfield earned an ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove award for his 1.000% fielding percentage and six outfield assists.
Chinners joined the CSU coaching staff after serving as the Assistant Groundskeeper for the Norfolk Tides (AAA Affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles) in the 2016 season.
No stranger to coaching, Chinners served as the hitting/infield coach for the New Market Rebels in the Valley League in the summer of 2015.
Prior to New Market, Chinners served as an instructor and coach at the Clemson University, Charleston Southern University, and University of South Carolina baseball camps.
Chinners served as the Strength and Conditioning Coordinator at Blythewood High School from 2012-2014, while also serving as the Assistant Varsity Coach and Head JV Coach. Under his coaching, he developed six players that are in the current collegiate baseball ranks, while also leading the team to a 2013 State Championships runner-ups.
He started his coaching experience as the Assistant Varsity Coach and Head JV Coach at Woodland High School in 2011-2012 where he worked with the hitters in the program, as well as the Woodland catchers and first basemen.
Chinners graduated from Charleston Southern in 2011 with a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology. His wife, Jana, was a former standout on the CSU Softball team graduating in 2013.
