Former Bear Aaron Meyer begins his third year as a member of the Bears’ coaching staff and his first as MSU’s volunteer assistant coch.
Following the completion of his four-year Missouri State playing career, the Millstadt, Ill., native served as a student assistant for the Bears while wrapping up work on his undergraduate degree in 2018, before filling one of the staff’s graduate manager positions during the 2019 campaign. Meyer worked with the MSU infielders and hitters, in addition to assuming first-base coaching duties in 2018.
A first-team All-MVC choice at second base as a senior in 2017, Meyer hit .292 with career-best figures for homers (4), slugging (.441) and fielding percentage (.962), despite being limited to 41 games due to a season-ending knee injury. For his career, he batted .287 with 164 total hits, six homers and 76 RBIs in 187 games, including 151 starts.
As a junior, Meyer emerged as one of the Bears’ top offensive threats, hitting a career-best .315 and posting the longest hitting streak by a Valley player in 2016 with a 20-game streak. He turned in a torrid summer of 2016 with the DuPage Drones, setting a Prospect League record for hitting (.423) en route to collecting the circuit’s Mike Schmidt Player of the Year honor. Additionally, he was named MSU’s Danny Cook Rookie of the Year after starting 32 of the Bears’ 57 games and hitting .226 for the season.
Meyer graduated from MSU with his degree in sport administration in 2018.
