George Hansen: Kennesaw Mountain High School

Minor was inducted into the Georgia Dugout Club Hall of Fame in 2019.

Bio updated 8/30/2024

George Hansen is the first and only baseball coach in Kennesaw Mountain’s history. Hansen was part of the Georgia Dugout Club Hall of Fame’s Class of 2019.

“It’s definitely one of those things you don’t think about until it happens,” Hansen said. “It’s definitely an honor that I could not be more excited about. It’s definitely the greatest honor I’ll ever have because it’s your peers tipping their caps to you and giving you their respect.”

Hansen has been a varsity coach for more than 25 seasons at Pebblebrook and Kennesaw Mountain High Schools. He served as an assistant at North Cobb High School under the late Harvey Cochran, also a member of the Georgia Dugout Club Hall of Fame. He has a career coaching mark of 489-299 entering the 2025 season.

He has won four region titles and he has guided 14 teams to state playoff appearances. His Kennesaw Mountain team finished as the Class 5A state runner-up in 2005. Hansen has made three trips to the state semifinals and three quarterfinal appearances. His 2007 team was ranked fourth nationally by USA Today.

He was named the Georgia Dugout Club Coach of the year in 2007 and has also coached softball in his tenure.

He has helped more than 60 players get into college and has coached five professional players. One of those is catcher Tyler Stephenson, a first-round draft pick by the Reds in 2015.

“One of the things I heard Tyler say was that he’d give anything to put on a Kennesaw Mountain uniform and play just one more game,” Hansen said. “To me, that means more than any championship trophy.”

Hansen has always been known as a coach who cares about his players both on the field and away from the game.

“We all sort of felt like we were his kids,” Stephenson said. “He was a British Literature teacher and he was always concerned with how we were doing in school. He was sort of that fatherly figure that everyone looked up to.”