Director of Baseball Operations - 2026 will be 15th Season at Florida
Former Gators catcher Buddy Munroe wrapped up his 14th season on staff with the University of Florida baseball program in 2025, currently serving as the Director of Baseball Operations.
The Orange & Blue has advanced to the NCAA Tournament in every season with Munroe in the dugout, highlighted by trips to the College World Series in Omaha in seven of his 14 years on staff (2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023, 2024).
Munroe assumed his current role following one season as the team’s volunteer assistant coach and another as a student assistant coach. After being taken in the 22nd round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft by Minnesota with the 672nd choice, Munroe played two seasons with the Twins’ minor league affiliates in Elizabethton (Tenn.) and Beloit (Wis.).
With Munroe on staff in various capacities from 2012-2024, Florida experienced three-separate stretches of historic success in Omaha. The Gators made three-consecutive trips to the Men's College World Series from 2010-12, then one-upped that feat with four-straight bids from 2015-18. Florida then returned for consecutive visits to Omaha from 2023-24, as the Orange & Blue produced yet another eye-popping CWS run.
Munroe manages UF’s team travel arrangements by organizing flights, bus trips and hotel accommodations, as well as overseeing the budget and assists all members of the coaching staff in their day-to-day tasks and recruiting paperwork. Munroe’s other responsibilities include serving as a game manager, coordinating maintenance within the team areas of Florida Ballpark, as well as hiring and managing the ushers for home games. In addition, he is involved with everything related to the Gators Baseball camps which are held several times per year.
His work helped the Gators reach the College World Series four years in a row (2015-18) and, in 2017, helped the Gators win the program’s first national title. Florida returned to the College World Series again in 2023 while setting the program's single-season wins record (54).
UF has reached NCAA Regionals every year that Mornoe has been on the coaching staff as a volunteer assistant, student assistant and director of operations.
In helping Florida reach the 2009 NCAA Gainesville Super Regional as a junior, Munroe played in 51 games, starting 40 games behind the plate and four as the designated hitter. He hit .270 with 26 RBI, 23 runs, 11 walks, seven doubles and five homers and was 3-for-4 on the basepaths. In SEC play, Munroe batted .275 with 14 runs, 14 RBI and five doubles. Eight of his 25 hits in league play went for extra bases, as he had five doubles and three round-trippers. He started two of the three games at catcher during the NCAA Gainesville Regional and was 2-for-5 in the finale against Miami (FL), with an RBI grounder in the five-run first inning and he later doubled and scored in the third stanza. Munroe delivered the game-winning hit, a walk-off single with a one-out and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, to down Florida State on St. Patrick’s Day, when he was 3-for-5 with two RBI.
During his sophomore season in 2008, Munroe started at catcher 32 times in 38 games played and batted .237 with 17 RBI. He scored 15 runs, with four doubles, three homers and three sacrifice flies. Munroe started every game of the series at Ole Miss and was second on the squad with a .400 (4-for-10) effort. He set a season high with three RBI and belted his first homer in the finale, when he was 2-for-3 and scored twice to help UF secure its first series victory in Oxford since 1997. Munroe joined the Gators after seeing action in five games as a rookie at Clemson.
Munroe earned his bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Florida in 2013 and his master’s degree in sport management with a minor in entrepreneurship in 2017.
Coaching Career
Student Assistant Coach, University of Florida, 2012-13
Volunteer Assistant Coach, University of Florida, 2013-14
Director of Baseball Operations, University of Florida, 2014-present
Collegiate Playing Career
Clemson University, 2007
University of Florida, 2008-09
Professional Baseball Experience
Elizabethton (Tenn.) Twins (Rookie - Appalachian League), 2009-10
Beloit (Wis.) Snappers, (Class A – Midwest League), 2009
