Chris McCormack returns for his fourth year with the Tigers in 2012, and his second as Director of Baseball Operations. McCormack spent the previous two seasons as a volunteer assistant.

In 2008, McCormack worked at Sacramento State University under current Pacific coaches Don Barbara and Mike McCormick, where he served as the director of baseball operations.There, McCormack worked with catchers, hitters and base runners on the field, while he maintained the recruiting database and assisted with travel organization in the office.Concurrently he worked under Pacific's assistant coach Don Barbara for the Don Barbara Hornet Baseball Camps, where he was responsible for the staff, schedules, the campers and drills.

From 2006 to 2007 he served as the assistant baseball coach for Ferndale High School in Washington, where he again oversaw catchers, hitters and first basemen. Under his guidance, the program reached the Washington state playoffs for the first time in school history.

The year before that, in 2005, he was the assistant coach for the Bellingham Bells organization in Bellingham, Wash. There he began developing his recruiting skills and coached first basemen, hitters and catchers.

McCormack attended Sacramento State and played as a catcher in 2002 and then transferred to Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., to obtain his bachelor's degree in communication in 2005. He went on to work towards a master's in adult education from Jones International University in Centennial, Colo.

In between universities, Chris attended Bellevue Community College for one year, where his baseball team was an NWAACC tournament participant for its 23rd-straight season.

McCormack and his wife Vicki Sky were married in 2011.