Bio

At Simpson

• Completed ninth season in 2025
• Record of 117-198 (65-134 A-R-C) in first nine seasons
• Guided the Storm to 19 wins in 2022, the team's highest win total since 2014
• Led the Storm to the A-R-C Tournament in 2021 and 2025
• Hired on July 11, 2016 as the 26th coach in program history
• Ranks fourth all-time in career wins

Player Achievement Under Roling

• All-American: Brady Held (2022)
• All-Region: Dante Dolash (2025), Trey Castile (2024), Eli Feekin (2024), Brady Held (2021, 2022), Truman Schmitt (2019)
• A-R-C Pitcher of the Year: Brady Held (2022)
• All-Conference: Nate Cagley (2025), Trey Castile (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), Dante Dolash (2025), Trenten Kingrey (2025), Brady Held (2021, 2022, 2023), Ty Cowley (2022), Josh Breitbarth (2021), Colton Major (2021), Noah Sacco (2021), Truman Schmitt (2019), Kolton Arnold (2018), Trey Kehoe (2018) 
• Honorable Mention All-Conference: Jacob Roberts (2025), Nate Cagley (2024), Drew Carlson (2024), Eli Feekin (2024), Mitchell Roeder (2023), Brett Kauzlarich (2022), Brady Held (2019), Devin Creger (2019), Tanner Jansen (2018), Noah Sacco (2018), Hunter Hillygus (2017)
• Academic All-American: Truman Schmitt (2020) 
• Academic All-District: Will Carlock (2023, 2024, 2025), Kasey Carter (2025), Joel Sampson (2024), Dallas Jackson (2023), Lucas Juhl (2023), Bennett Wadstrom (2023), Colton Major (2021), Truman Schmitt (2020)
• Academic All-Conference (77)

Recent Team Accomplishments Under Roling

• Simpson has tied for the most all-conference pitchers in the A-R-C the past four seasons.
• The Storm pitching staff led the A-R-C in strikeouts during conference play in 2021 and 2022 and ranked second in 2023 and 2024. Overall, Simpson led the conference in 2023 and was second in 2022 and 2024.
• Simpson also finished top-three in the league in overall batting average against the last four seasons, including ranking first in 2023. 
• Simpson's 4.80 ERA in 2022 was the team's lowest in eight years. In 2024, the Storm registered a 5.00 ERA as a unit, the second-lowest ERA in the conference (team's highest ranking since 2015). 
• 2022 pitching staff ranked seventh in DIII in strikeouts per nine innings (10.4) and led the conference in strikeouts (248) and batting average against (.236) during league play.
• The Storm hit 82 doubles in 2022, the most since 2009 and fourth-highest season total all-time.
• Simpson has achieved the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award (minimum 3.0 GPA) each of the last three years. 

Program Records Set Under Roling

• Team strikeouts in a game (20, 2022)
• Team strikeouts in a season (376, 2022)
• Team doubles in a game (9, 2022)
• Team putouts in a game (38, 2017)
• Individual season ERA (1.53, Brady Held, 2021)
• Individual career ERA (2.60, Brady Held, 2019-23)
• Individual strikeouts in a game (18, Brady Held, 2022)
• Individual career strikeouts (352, Trey Castile, 2021-25)
• Individual doubles in a game (4, Kolton Arnold, 2022)

Before Simpson

• Spent three seasons as the top assistant coach at Loras... oversaw recruiting, hitting, catching and team defense... team hit .314 in 2016 to tie for second in the IIAC... coached both the league’s batting champion and co-home run leader in 2016
• Served as the top assistant at Coe during a highly successful three-year stretch... helped the Kohawks go 89-43 with an IIAC Championship in 2011 and two trips to the NCAA Tournament... Coe experienced the three winningest seasons in school history during the stretch, including 32 wins in 2011
• Served as head coach of the River Valley Summer Collegiate Baseball League’s Dubuque Waves for a season... led the Waves to a league championship while earning Manager of the Year honors
• Completed a two-year graduate assistantship at Stevenson

Year-by-Year at Simpson