New Maryland baseball coach John Szefc will earn a base salary of $115,000 annually over the course of his five-year contract with the school.
A copy of Szefc’s contract was obtained through an open records request. Szefc, a former head coach at Marist who came to Maryland last month after a stint as an assistant at Kansas State, also receives $20,000 in moving expenses as part of the deal he signed Aug. 9. Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson signed the contract Aug. 13.
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Szefc’s base salary is an increase over the $100,000 Erik Bakich received annually during his three-year stint at Maryland. Bakich left to take over Michigan’s program in June with one year remaining on his deal.
The contract also includes annual stipends for a car ($4,200) and cell phone stipend ($840), as well as bonuses related to the ACC tournament, NCAA tournament, ACC and national coach of the year honors and a bonus earned if the baseball program’s Academic Progress Rate score is at least 950 out of 1000.
Bakich had similar, though not identical, bonuses in his deal.
Szefc takes over a team that produced the second-best victory total in school history while going 32-24 last season. Maryland has not reached the ACC tournament since 2005 and the NCAA tournament since 1971.
—- Patrick Stevens
