Head Coach | Scott Lieser

Lieser was named the Johnnies' head baseball coach on May 14, 2025, following seven seasons as an assistant coach. He replaces Jerry Haugen '76, who retired following 48 seasons with a 916-736-5 (.554) record.

The Johnnies boasted a 135-80 (69-31 MIAC) record and finished in the MIAC's top three in all six competitive seasons that Lieser was on staff as an assistant (no postseason in 2020), including a MIAC playoff title and trip to the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2019.

Lieser was a standout right-handed pitcher for Division II St. Cloud State from 2010-13. He ended his career with a school-record 32 victories (32-7 record) in 66 appearances (269.2 Innings pitched), 226 strikeouts and a 3.10 ERA. Lieser competed on Husky squads that reached the NCAA Division II Central Regional each of his four years, and earned regional All-Tournament Team honors as a sophomore, junior and senior.

A two-year team captain, Lieser earned All-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference honors twice and All-Central Region honors three times. He was named Daktronics Division II All-America honorable mention in 2013, when he went 10-3 with five complete games, 66 strikeouts to 11 walks and a 2.71 ERA in 83.0 innings.

Following graduation, Lieser played professionally in the Milwaukee Brewers organization for three seasons (2013-15) and reached the high-A level. In 63 professional appearances, mostly as a reliever, Lieser posted a 4-5 record with two saves, 87 strikeouts to 14 walks and a 1.19 WHIP in 99 innings pitched. During his college years, he played summer baseball in the Northwoods League with Waterloo (2010) and Willmar (2011-12).

Lieser first joined the Johnnies' baseball program as an assistant coach for the 2018-19 academic year before taking over as the activities director at Long Prairie-Grey Eagle High School from 2019-21. Lieser served as a volunteer assistant coach at SJU, in a minor capacity, those two seasons before returning to Collegeville full-time in the fall of 2021 as both a member of SJU's Institutional Advancement staff and as a baseball assistant.

Prior to his stop at Augsburg as an assistant coach in 2017-18, Lieser coached travel baseball with the Minnesota Select U-13 squad and served as junior varsity coach at Centennial (Minn.) High School. He was also a pitching coach in the Northwoods League for two summers with St. Cloud (2018) and Willmar (2017).

A native of Browerville, Minn., Lieser played baseball, football and basketball for the Tigers, leading the baseball team to two state-tournament appearances and earning team Most Valuable Player honors twice. He was named a Minnesota Lions' All-Star following his senior season in 2009.

Scott and his wife, Nora, reside in Freeport with their daughter, Vivian, and golden retriever, Wrigley. Nora is the associate athletic director at St. Cloud State.