Matt Larry enters his fifth year as the head baseball coach for the Shorter College baseball program after a nine-year stint as the assistant coach at Shorter.

Last season, Larry earned his 100th win as a head coach and led the Hawks to an appearance in the Southern States Athletic Conference tournament for the third straight season.

Larry, a native of Stone Mountain, Ga., attended Clarkston High School where he was selected to the Dugout Club's East All-Star team in 1988. He played two years at Dekalb Junior College as a catcher and finished his college career at Shorter College. At Shorter, he was a member of the 1991 Georgia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship team and in 1992, the District 25 Runners-up. He finished his career by being awarded All-Conference and All-District honors as a catcher in 1992.

Larry was the architect behind the 1998 and 2003 GACC (Georgia-Alabama-Carolina Conference) Championship teams and he launched Shorter's junior varsity program in 2004. His tireless recruiting efforts paid off in those years, and he continues to keep the Hawks competitive year-in and year-out in the SSAC. Larry was awarded the 2006 Georgia Dugout Club Coach of the Year.

Larry earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Shorter in 1993 and began his coaching career here in 1994 as an assistant. He earned his master's degree in education from Jacksonville State University in 1998. Coach Larry is married to the former Brig Bagley of Rome, Ga., and they have two children: Alivia and Bagley.