Kennesaw Mountain head coach George Hansen recorded his 500th career coaching victory on Friday, February 14, 2025.

Kennesaw Mountain's Hansen records 500th career coaching victory

Kennesaw Mountain head baseball coach George Hansen joined the 500-win coaching fraternity after his Mustangs defeated Paulding County 4-1 on Friday, February 14, 2025.

The Georgia Dugout Club Hall of Fame coach entered the 2025 season needing just one victory to enter the milestone club.

The only head baseball coach Kennesaw Mountain has ever known, Hansen has been a varsity coach for 30 seasons at Pebblebrook and Kennesaw Mountain High Schools. He served as an assistant at North Cobb under Harvey Cochran, also a member of the Georgia Dugout Club Hall of Fame. He has a career coaching mark of 500-299 after Friday night's victory.

He has won four region titles. 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 a handful of professional players. One of those is catcher Tyler Stephenson, a first-round draft pick by Cincinnati 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 Lit 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.”