From Tribune staff reports
TRUSSVILLE, Ala.–He led Clay-Chalkville and Hewitt-Trussville high schools to baseball state championships. He became the youngest coach in Alabama high school history to win 700 games. He sent countless student athletes to play baseball on the collegiate and professional level. And now he’s going into the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Mauldin got the news last week from long-time friend and Mountain Brook baseball coach Lee Gann. “I wasn’t expecting it to come from him,” Mauldin said. “It is very humbling and it was special for him to be the one to call me.”
“I have been very blessed,” Mauldin said. “God has definitely put me in a position that I don’t deserve.”
Hewitt-Trussville baseball skipper Jeff Mauldin was one of four coaches selected to be inducted in the 2025 class. He joins Pat Keedy of Gardendale High School, Brent Patterson of Cullman High School, and Steve Shartzer of Huntingdon College.
The ceremony will take place at the 30th annual meeting at the Winfrey Hotel on Dec. 12.
“We are very excited for Coach Mauldin and the recent announcement of his Hall of Fame induction,” Trussville City Schools Superintendent Patrick Martin said. “Coach Mauldin has won a lot of baseball games and experienced a tremendous amount of success. However, knowing him as I do, that is secondary to the countless lives his has impacted and the relationships he has formed with his athletes over his many years in the game.”
Mauldin is thankful for the Hewitt administration and their trust in him. “I have an administration that trusts me and lets me run a program how it should be run, or how I feel like it should be run,” Mauldin said. “God has been over the whole thing and placing the right people in my path to help me and our program have the successes it has.”
Mauldin credits Clay and Pelham for his success early on. “Lawrence Carter was my first principal at Clay and gave a young coach an opportunity,” Mauldin said. “There was no way I had the resume that other people had.”
“Randall Cassidy followed him and was just gold to me,” Mauldin said. “Then I went to Pelham, and Bob Lavett was a former baseball coach, and I had him the whole time I was there.”
“When you start thinking about how it started and how I got here, it goes back to Joe Mason,” Mauldin said. “He was a scout for the Mets and lived in Millbrook, Alabama. He came to watch my best friend, and I just happened to be pitching,” Mauldin said. “He picked up the phone and called Jim Case, the UAB pitching coach, and told him that he just saw this right-handed pitcher in Virginia that he needed to sign.”
“The funny thing is that I didn’t even know what UAB stood for,” said Mauldin.
Head coach Jeff Mauldin shares the moment with his wife, Chrissy.
Photo by Ron Burkett/The Trussville Tribune
“Trussville City Schools celebrates this achievement and congratulates him, his family, and his Huskies athletes and baseball staff,” he said.
Mauldin became just the sixth coach in Alabama high school history to reach 700 wins and he accomplished the milestone as the youngest coach ever to do so. His 76% winning percentage is the highest among the six coaches.
Mauldin has won 328 games in his 12 seasons at Hewitt-Trussville. He won 176 games at Pelham from 2007-2012 and he won 218 games at Clay-Chalkville where he began his coaching career.
“I want to congratulate Coach Mauldin on this well-deserved honor,” Hewitt-Trussville Athletic Director Lance Walker said. “His HT Baseball program is one of the most respected programs in the state. I appreciate the positive impact he has made on so many students over the last several decades. We are excited about the future of Husky Baseball.”
Walker complied a lengthy list of Mauldin’s career accomplishments;
Coaching Highlights
Career Record 722-223-1
Winning Percentage .763
2 State Championships (2003, 2016)
5 State Runner-up (2005, 2006, 2013, 2018 and 2022)
9 Final Four Appearances (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022)
16 Area Championships in 25 years
19 State playoff appearances in 24 years
Over 120 players played at the college level
11 players drafted in Major League Baseball Draft
8 former assistants went on to be head coaches at high school level
Coaching Honors
2001 North-South All-Star Coach
2002 Jefferson County 6A Coach of the Year
2003 Alabama Sports Writers 6A Coach of the Year
Birmingham News East, West and North Coach of the Year
Alabama High School Athletic Association 6A Coach of the Year
Jefferson County 6A Coach of the Year
2005 Jefferson County 6A Coach of the Year
2006 Jefferson County 6A Coach of the Year
2009 North-South All-Star Coach
2013 Birmingham News Coach of the Year
2016 Alabama Sports Writers 7A Coach of the Year
Alabama High School Athletic Association 7A Coach of the Year
Al.Com Birmingham/Central Alabama All-Region Coach of the Year
National High School Federation Alabama Coach of the Year
National High School Federation South Sectional Coach of the Year which includes:
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee)
