Julius McDougal joined the Georgetown baseball program as associate head coach and hitting coach in March 2021. Along with leading the offense, McDougal will also work with the team’s infielders and serve as the program’s recruiting coordinator.
McDougal was an integral part of the Hoyas' historic 2022 season that featured the program's first BIG EAST Baseball Championship appearance since 2018, the first BIG EAST Freshman of the Year Owen Carapellotti and the first BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the year following a six-win campaign in 2021. He helped Ethan Stern and Jake Hyde to respective first and second team All-BIG EAST selections and ABCA / Rawlings All-East Region Team honors. McDougal assisted the Hoyas in breaking program records for wins (32), home runs (98), total bases (925) and end of season RPI (137) while setting second-best marks in win percentage (.571), runs (400), RBIs (367) and slugging percentage (.480). He also mentored new single-season home run leaders Hyde (19) and Ubaldo Lopez (19) as well as freshman Carapellotti, who garnered Second Team All-America status by D1Baseball.com in his first season with the Hoyas.
McDougal arrives at the Hilltop after spending the past three seasons with Coach Thompson at Eastern Kentucky University where he was the program’s recruiting coordinator, infield coach and assistant hitting coach from 2018-20 after serving as the volunteer assistant coach in 2017.
In 2020, McDougal helped EKU start the 2020 season with a 12-2 mark, including a Friday night win at No. 11 LSU, before the season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He coached two players to All-America honors and another was named Academic All-American. Catcher A.J. Lewis signed a free-agent contract with the Colorado Rockies. As a team, EKU was 10th in the nation in on-base percentage (.420), 12th in batting average (.314), 13th in doubles, 14th in slugging and 15th in scoring (8.4 runs/game).
A known recruiter, McDougal helped put together Perfect Game’s (PG) No. 65 recruiting class in the nation in 2020. EKU had six of the top 28 freshmen in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) according to PG, which was the most of any school in the conference. Between 2018-19, McDougal had three recruits selected in the MLB Draft.
In 2018 and 2019, EKU posted consecutive 30-win seasons for the first time since 1999-00. The program’s 16 conference wins in 2019 were the most since 2013, and he helped lead an offense that ranked in the top 25 in walks, runs, home runs and stolen bases. McDougal helped the Colonels upset two nationally-ranked teams in 2018 – No. 15 Virginia and No. 11 Vanderbilt – as well as advance to the final three at the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament.
McDougal spent the 2016-17 seasons as the head coach at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He led Stillman to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) regular-season conference championship in 2016, advancing to the finals of the conference tournament as the No. 1 seed. He had five players sign pro contracts.
He served as an assistant coach at Stillman during the 2015 season and at Kentucky State University in 2014.
McDougal played collegiately at Claflin University in South Carolina. In 2010, he was chosen to the all-conference team after hitting .416, which was ranked 53rd in the country. He was named Claflin’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2011.
