Bio

Career Highlights entering 2024 season:
Career Record: 597-320 (.651) -- 19 years
Record at Point Park: 490-216 (.694) -- 14 years
NAIA World Series 2012 -- 5th Place
NAIA Opening Round 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023
KIAC / RSC Tournament Champs 2013, 2014, 2018, 2023
Conference Regular-Season Champs 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017
ABCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year 2012
Chuck Tanner Collegiate Baseball Manger of the Year 2012 -- Rotary Club of Pittsburgh
KIAC / RSC Coach of the Year 2013, 2015, 2017
AMC Coach of the Year 2011 and 2012
CCAC Coach of the Year 2004
Alma Mater: Trinity International-South Florida ('96); Northcentral Univ. (Master's '10)

Loren Torres enters his 15th year as Point Park University baseball head coach for the upcoming 2024 season. He was hired in July 2009. Point Park baseball, which is tied for fifth all-time with 11 appearances in the NAIA World Series, has made its return to national relevance under coach Torres.

Coach Torres has a career record of 597-320 (.651) entering the 2024 season. In the first 14 seasons at Point Park, coach Torres has compiled a record of 490-216 (.694). He has averaged 35 wins per season at Point Park and 31 wins per year over his 19-year career, all in the NAIA. He was the head coach at Judson (Ill.) University for five years previously.

Torres became Point Park's all-time wins leader for baseball head-coaching victories on April 26, 2022. When he picked up his 444th win at Point Park, he passed the legendary Pioneers' coach Mark Jackson, who was 443-196 (.695) in 12 seasons and led the Pioneers two six NAIA World Series appearances.

Entering the 2024 season, coach Torres is just three wins away from 600 for his career and 10 away from 500 at Point Park. No coach in any sport in Point Park athletics history has won 500 games at the school. Now in his 20th season as a head coach, Torres ranks in the Top 25 of active head coaches in the NAIA for career wins. 

Point Park baseball has consistently reached the NAIA national tournament with seven trips in the last 11 seasons. That includes the last three straight in 2021, 2022 and 2023 and four out of the last five years. The Pioneers have made a lot of noise in the national tournament during those last four NAIA appearances reaching the regional finals three times and the semifinals once. 

Point Park has won five conference tournament championships during Torres' 14 years at the school. Point Park has finished the season ranked in the NAIA Top 25 final poll eight times under Torres -- 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

When the Pioneers became ranked in the 2011 season, it was the first time the Pioneers were in the Top 25 since the 1999 preseason poll. When Point Park reached the NAIA World Series in 2012, it was the first time the Pioneers were there in 14 seasons. The 2012 season was a very special one with a school record for wins and a 53-11 final record. The Pioneers placed fifth in the nation going 2-2 at the NAIA World Series. 

Point Park won four straight conference regular season championship from 2012 to 2015. That included three in a row in the KIAC in 2013, 2014 and 2015. It also notched KIAC Tournament championships in 2013, 2014 and 2018 to push the Pioneers' conference tournament championship total to 25 in its first 51 years of existence.

In 2017, the Pioneers claimed the conference regular-season championship for the fourth time in five years with a record of 36-19 overall and 26-6 RSC. They followed that up with a very impressive season in 2018, which included a 47-9 record, a River States Conference Tournament championship and a run to the NAIA National Championship Opening Round finals, one game away from another NAIA World Series.

The Pioneers returned to the national stage when they reached the NAIA World Series with a record of 53-11 in 2012, which was Torres' third year at Point Park. The 53 wins set a school record, and Point Park ended the year ranked No. 6 in the Final NAIA Baseball Top 25 Poll of the year.

Torres has been named conference Coach of the Year five times while at Point Park -- 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017 -- with the first two in the American Mideast Conference and the next three in the KIAC / River States Conference.

Following a 13-26 performance in Torres' first year at Point Park in 2010, the Pioneers had a big turnaround in the 2011 season as it was 38-13 overall, won the AMC Regular Season Championship at 14-6, reached the finals of the AMC Tournament and was ranked #21 in the final NAIA Baseball Coaches Top 25 Poll. It was the first time the Pioneers were ranked since the start of the 1999 seaon coming off its 1998 NAIA World Series appearance.

The Pioneers nearly qualified for the NAIA national tournament in 2011, but they were the first team left out of the at-large bids for the NAIA Opening Round. The momentum established in 2011 carried over to the 2012 season in which the Pioneers made it back to the NAIA World Series for the 11th time in school history and the first time since 1998.

Getting back to the World Series and re-establishing a program that is consistently ranked in the NAIA Top 25 has allowed the Pioneers to re-assume their place as one of the top programs in NAIA baseball.

Since arriving on campus, Torres has instilled the program with the discipline and hard-working attitude needed to succeed. Mixing that in with some talented recruiting classes has been the recipe for success.

Torres has over 20 years of coaching experience on the collegiate level, including 15 years as a head coach. His coaching resume also includes nine years as scout for Major League Baseball teams. Torres is the eighth baseball coach in Point Park history. The first year of baseball was the the 1967-68 school year.

Torres' collegiate head-coaching experience prior to Point Park came at Judson (Ill.) University, an NAIA member in Elgin, Ill., where he was the head coach for five seasons from 2003-07. While at Judson, he led the Eagles to the playoffs in four out of his five seasons.

While at Judson, Torres compiled a won-loss record that was impressive considering the past history of the baseball program. Torres had a record of 107-104-2 (.507), but the program's all-time winning percentage prior to his arrival was just above .300. The Eagles' baseball program was started in 1967, and Torres held the record for most career wins while he was employed there.

Torres was named the Coach of the Year in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference in 2004 after guiding Judson to a 27-20 season. At the time, the 27 victories were the most in a single season, but that record was broken this past year.

Under Torres, Judson made four appearances in the CCAC tournament and two appearances in the National Christian College Athletic Association tournament. When the 2004 team made the NCCAA tourney, it was the first time that Judson appeared in a national tournament. The Eagles also went to the NCCAA tourney in 2007.

He posted three 20-win seasons at Judson and won at least 18 games in each of his five seasons.

Before becoming the head coach at Judson, Torres was an assistant coach at Savannah (Ga.) College of Art and Design in 2002. He got his start in coaching at his alma mater, Trinity International University-South Florida in Miami, Fla., where he was an assistant coach for four seasons from 1997-2000.

From 2007-2009, he was a scout for the Kansas City Royals, and his responsibility included covering the South Florida and Puerto Rico areas. While at Judson, Torres served as a scout for the Philadelphia Phillies with responsibilities of covering the Midwestern states of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Indiana. He scouted the state of Georgia for the Cincinnati Reds while at SCAD.

His coaching experience includes one year as a high school coach. In 2001 he was the head coach at Northwest Christian Academy in Miami. Torres guided Northwest Christian Academy to a No. 2 ranking in the state of Florida, and he had three players drafted in the 2001 Major League Baseball draft. He was the Miami-Dade Coach of the Year in 2001.

Torres finished his playing career at Trinity International-South Florida in 1996 as a three-time all-region performer. He set school records for batting average and stolen bases in 1995.

Torres is a 1992 graduate of Nova High School in Davie, Fla., where he played baseball for legendary coach Pat McQuaid. Nova has won several state championships during McQuaid's 34 years, and the Titans were ranked No. 1 in the nation by Baseball America after winning state titles in 2004 and 2005. Torres was inducted into the Nova Hall of Fame in 2001.

Before moving to Miami as a teenager, Torres lived in Patillas, Puerto Rico.

Torres earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education from Trinity International-South Florida in 1996. In the spring of 2010, Torres earned a master's degree in sports management and leadership from Northcentral University.

While at Judson, he served as the university's fitness center director. In addition to being an assistant coach at Trinity International-South Florida, Torres also served as an admissions counselor.