Phone: 785-827-5541 ext. 3124
Email: carv@kwu.edu

Mark "Carv" Carvalho has been head coach of Kansas Wesleyan University baseball since the 2010 season.

Coach Carv has carried his record of success to Kansas Wesleyan. In his first season in 2010, the Coyotes won their second straight KCAC Tournament crown and advanced to their second straight NAIA National Championship Opening Round Tournament. In 2011, his second season leading the Coyotes, Coach Carv led the Coyotes to their third KCAC Regular Season Championship in the last four years and their third straight KCAC Tournament Championship and third straight NAIA National Tournament Opening Round Tournament appearance. The Coyotes played for the Opening Round championship in 2011, losing to eventual National Champion Runners-Up Lubbock Christian.

Carvalho most recently served as associate head coach and hitting coach at Bethany College in Lindsborg. While at Bethany, the Swedes batted .382, tops in the NAIA, and finished with a 36-16 record.

However, it was his success at fellow Kansas Conference member Friends University that is most notable. While at Friends, "Carv" had a 234-169 overall record in nine seasons from 1997 to 2006, which included a 98-53 mark during his last three years. Carvalho was a part of five KCAC Championship squads for the Falcons: 1988 (Asst. Coach), 1990 (Asst. Coach), 2004, 2006 and 2007 (as head coach).

Coach Carv picked up career win 300 on May 5, 2011 in the KCAC Tournament Semifinals against Sterling College.

His best season was in 2004 when the Falcons won the KCAC Championship, and advanced to the NAIA Region IV Championship, where Friends was one game away from advancing to the NAIA World Series. That season his team set a school record for wins with 38, and he was named as KCAC Coach of the Year, and Regional Coach of the Year by both Louisville Slugger and Rawlings. He was also assistant coach at Friends from 1987-1991.

Carvalho is also head coach of the Team Elite Kings in the NBC Walter Johnson League, a summer wood bat league for collegiate players. He is also a hitting instructor at Elite Hitting Dynamics in Wichita, a state of the art hitting facility that uses the Pro Batter System and the Rightview Hitting software.

Carvalho's teams also excel in the classroom, and are models in the community. At Friends, his teams had a GPA of over 3.0 for five straight years, and would produce an average of four NAIA Scholar Athletes every year. His teams also involve themselves in the community. While at Friends, the Falcons won the Sedgwick County Volunteer Award for the reading, math and physical education programs they participated in with Wichita area elementary schools. For nine years, the Falcons would assist with Hometown Holiday, a program that would feed Christmas dinner to over 600 elderly and mentally-challenged people in the Wichita area, along with Cessna Aircraft and KFDI Radio.

"The only thing I ask from our players is to keep working hard on the field and in the classroom, be open-minded to our philosophies and be a TEAM on and off the field."

Carvalho graduated from Cowley County Community College in 1976 with a Associate of Arts degree in Journalism and continued on to Wichita State University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech-Radio/TV/Film, with minors in psychology and journalism in 1979. He continued on to earn his MBA degree in Sports / Marketing Administration.

Carvalho is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association, the American Writers Association, the Midwest Entertainment Connection and Screenplay Guild and Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

The native of Arkansas City, Kan., is married to the former Teresa O'Leary of Wichita, Kan. They have three children, Chelsea, Emily and Leslie.

Phone: 785-827-5541 ext. 3235
Toll Free: 1-800-874-1154
Email: bobby.bride@kwu.edu

Bobby Bride has been an assistant baseball coach with the Coyotes since 2009.

He came to Kansas Wesleyan after serving two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Saint Mary. He also was a student assistant coach at Kansas City Kansas Community College in 2007, and served as Head Freshman Coach at Lincoln (Neb.) Pius X High School from 2003 to 2006.

He has also been a coach with the MSBL Royals of the Ban Johnson League and with Team Elite Kings of the Walter Johnson League during the summer of 2009 as Coach Carvalho's pitching coach.

Bride graduated from Pius X High School in 2002, and continued onto Kansas City Kansas CC, where he completed an Associate of Arts degree in General Business in 2004. He then continued onto Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Resource Management in 2007. He then completed his Master of Arts in Adult Education from the University of Saint Mary in 2009.