Terry McKaig is the Director of Baseball at UBC, moving into the newly created position after stepping aside as the head coach of the Thunderbirds baseball program in 2015.
McKaig had a record of 548 wins, 353 losses and a tie during his 18 seasons as the team's head coach, with seven league playoff championships, as well as an NAIA Super Regional title.
On four occasions, McKaig was named the Coach of the Year in either the NAIA West Grouping or the NAIA Region I.
He developed UBC into a perennial top-25 team in the NAIA and has seen 20 players taken in the MLB Amateur Draft.Â
The most notable of those 20 players is UBC Hall of Famer Jeff Francis, who was selected ninth overall by Colorado in 2002 and started on the mound of game one in the 2007 World Series (Colorado vs Boston).
A native of Vernon, B.C., McKaig began his post-secondary playing career as a right fielder at North Idaho College ('90-93), before making stops with Albertson College ('94) and the National Baseball Institute ('95-96). He also spent time with the Kelowna Grizzlies of the semi-pro Pacific International League (summers of '93, '94 and '96) and was a member of the Canadian senior national team in 1995, where he played with the likes of Eric Gagne, Jeff Zimmerman, Cody McKay and Kevin Nicholson.
Prior to coming to UBC, McKaig spent one season as the head coach of the Vancouver Mounties of the Premier Baseball League. He has also managed Team Canada's entry in the Grant Forks International 10 times. He coached the Canadian team at the 2004 World University Baseball Championship in Taipei and 2008 World University Baseball Championship in the Czech Republic. In 2009, led Team Canada to a third place finish at the World Baseball Challenge in Prince George, BC. In 2011, McKaig did colour commentary for the Vancouver Canadians, the Short Season-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays.
McKaig graduated from UBC in 1997 with a degree in human kinetics and a minor in business. He, wife, Davina and their children, Jenna and Trenton, live in Tsawwassen, B.C.Â
