{{Short description|American college baseball coach (1965–2019)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Tim Chambers | image = | alt = | caption = | current_title = | current_team = | current_conference = | current_record = | contract = | birth_date = {{birth date|1965|1|27}} | birth_place = Claremore, Oklahoma, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|10|27|1965|1|27}} | death_place = Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. | alma_mater = Southern Utah State College | player_sport1 = Baseball | player_years2 = 1984 | player_team2 = Dixie JC | player_years3 = 1985 | player_team3 = Utah Tech JC | player_years4 = 1986 | player_team4 = Southern Utah State | player_positions = Outfielder | coach_sport1 = Baseball | coach_years2 = 1991–1999 | coach_team2 = Bishop Gorman HS | coach_years3 = 2000–2010 | coach_team3 = Southern Nevada CC | coach_years4 = 2011–2015 | coach_team4 = UNLV | admin_years1 = 2003–2010 | admin_team1 = Southern Nevada CC | overall_record = 157–132 | bowl_record = | tournament_record = NCAA: 1–2 | championships = MW regular season (2014) | awards = MW Coach of the Year (2014) | coaching_records = }} '''Timothy Doyle Chambers''' (January 27, 1965 – October 27, 2019)<ref name="SNHOF">{{Cite web | url=http://www.sportshalloffame.net/hall-of-famers/tim-chambers/ | title=2014 Inductee - Tim Chambers | website=www.sportshalloffame.net | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506042725/http://www.sportshalloffame.net/hall-of-famers/tim-chambers/ | archive-date=2017-05-06}}</ref> was an American college baseball coach. He was head coach of the UNLV Rebels baseball team from 2011 to 2015. He was named to that position prior to the 2011 season.<ref name=bio>{{cite web | url = http://www.unlvrebels.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/tim_chambers_682785.html | publisher = UNLV Rebels | title = Tim Chambers Bio | accessdate = December 30, 2013 | archive-date = May 8, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170508190446/http://www.unlvrebels.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/tim_chambers_682785.html | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jun/11/chambers/ | newspaper = Las Vegas Sun | title = New coach Tim Chambers optimistic he can turn UNLV baseball into a winner | date = June 11, 2010 | accessdate = December 30, 2013 | author = Ray Brewer}}</ref><ref name=cb>{{cite web | url = http://www.collegebaseballdaily.com/2010/06/12/unlv-hires-tim-chambers-to-lead-baseball-squad/ | publisher = College Baseball Daily | title = UNLV hires Tim Chambers to lead Baseball Squad | author = Brian Foley | date = June 12, 2010 | accessdate = December 30, 2013}}</ref>
Born in Claremore, Oklahoma, Chambers graduated from Pleasant Grove High School in Pleasant Grove, Utah.<ref name=bio /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/preprecords/bb/bbiruns.html |title=deseretnews.com Utah High School Sports Records |website=Deseret News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031004144023/http://deseretnews.com/preprecords/bb/bbiruns.html |archive-date=2003-10-04}}</ref> He played at three colleges and earned all-conference honors at all three. These included Dixie State, where he was an All-American in 1984.<ref name=bio /> In 1985, Chambers transferred to Utah Technical College,<ref>{{cite web | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19850429&id=I1NTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HIQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6359,6728443&hl=en | title = UTech wins twice over Dixie, takes first place spot in ICAC baseball | work = Deseret News | date = April 29, 1985}}</ref> then to Southern Utah, where he earned his degree in 1989. He began his coaching career in 1991 at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, where he remained until 1999. In his time with the Gaels, the team won six consecutive Sunset Division championships, and were the state runners up in 1997. Chambers was named NIAA Coach of the Year in 1992 and 1993. He also coached the Las Vegas Knights of American Legion Baseball, where he won three state championships and reached the 1998 American Legion World Series.<ref name=bio />
In 2000, Chambers was hired to coach the Southern Nevada Coyotes baseball team, an NJCAA squad in Las Vegas. As the first Coyotes coach to manage a game (first coach Roger Fairless resigned prior to the program's first competition due to health issues), Chambers built the program to a major power, including seven conference championships, the regional titles, two district championships and the 2003 NJCAA World Series title. In 2010, Chambers coached the Bryce Harper-led Coyotes to the NJCAA Semifinals.<ref name=bio />
In the summer of 2010, the Washington Nationals, who would later draft Harper first overall, courted Chambers to be a scout.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/baseball/mlb/05/04/nationals.chambers/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100507164808/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/baseball/mlb/05/04/nationals.chambers/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = May 7, 2010 | publisher = Sports Illustrated | title = Nationals working to hire Harper's college coach as scout | author = John Heyman | date = May 4, 2010 | accessdate = December 30, 2013}}</ref> Instead, a month later Chambers was introduced as the head coach at UNLV, following Buddy Gouldsmith's resignation.<ref name=cb /> In his three seasons, the Rebels have reached 30 wins twice and claimed wins over several ranked teams, including Stanford, TCU, UC Irvine, and Arizona, while entering the rankings in both 2011 and 2013 themselves.<ref name=bio /> Chambers was fired by UNLV in December 2015 after being arrested for driving under the influence.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/ex-baseball-coach-tim-chambers-talks-unlv-firing-amid-drunken-journey/ | title = Ex-baseball coach Tim Chambers talks UNLV firing amid drunken journey | date = July 14, 2017 | agency = Las Vegas Review-Journal | author = Graney, Ed | accessdate = July 19, 2017 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20170719044957/https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/ex-baseball-coach-tim-chambers-talks-unlv-firing-amid-drunken-journey/ | archivedate = July 19, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Chambers died on October 27, 2019.<ref>{{Cite news | url = https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/unlv/other-sports/former-unlv-baseball-coach-tim-chambers-dies-at-54-1880388/ | title = Former UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers dies at 54 | last1 = Anderson | first1 = Mark | newspaper = Las Vegas Review-Journal | date = October 28, 2019}}</ref>
==Head coaching record== {{CBB yearly record start|type=coach}} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|name=UNLV Rebels|conference=Mountain West Conference|startyear=2011|endyear=2015}} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2011 | name = UNLV | overall = 33–25 | conference = 10–13 | confstanding = 5th | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2012 | name = UNLV | overall = 26–31 | conference = 7–17 | confstanding = 4th | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2013 | name = UNLV | overall = 36–18 | conference = 18–12 | confstanding = 2nd | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = conference | season = 2014 | name = UNLV | overall = 36–25 | conference = 20–10 | confstanding = T–1st | postseason = NCAA Regional }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2015 | name = UNLV | overall = 25–31 | conference = 10–20 | confstanding = 6th | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record subtotal|name=UNLV|overall=157–132|confrecord=65–72}} {{CBB yearly record end|overall=157–132}}
==See also== *List of current NCAA Division I baseball coaches
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{UNLV Rebels baseball coach navbox}} {{Mountain West Conference Baseball Coach of the Year navbox}}
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