Derek Groomer - Director of Athletic Performance for Baseball - Staff Directory

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Derek Groomer

Title:
Director of Athletic Performance for Baseball
Email:
Phone:
(706) 542-7971

Derek Groomer recently completed his second year on the Georgia staff of Ike Cousins head coach Wes Johnson.

In 2025, Georgia raced out to another impressive start that featured a 17-game winning streak and eventually finished 43-17. The Bulldogs were a consensus top 10 ranked team, including reaching as high as No. 1 during the season, and played host to an NCAA Regional for the second year in a row. In 2024, the Bulldogs posted a 43-17 mark, advanced to an NCAA Super Regional and finished with a top 10 final team ranking for the first time since 2008.

Groomer, who served as the head of baseball performance – sport science coordinator for national champion LSU in 2023, lead the Bulldogs sports performance program. He was a part of the Tigers staff that helped the program capture their seventh national title. The 2023 LSU team posted a 54-17 mark and had a school record 13 players selected in the Major League Baseball Draft including the first and second overall picks.

Prior to going to LSU, Groomer spent two years as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Alabama Birmingham, working with the Blazers baseball and volleyball programs. He spent part of 2020 assisting the TCU baseball program in strength and conditioning under the guidance of assistant athletic director of human performance Zach Dechant.

A native of Rogers, Ark., Groomer pursued a sports performance career while completing his degree at the University of Arkansas. He gained experience as a volunteer assistant at TCU during the summer of 2018. Also, he worked as an intern with Blaine Kinsley and the Razorbacks baseball program from 2018-2020. He spent a portion of 2019 with the New York Mets minor league organization in Port Saint Lucie, Fla., as they founded a sport science department.