Coach Terrance Whittle was named the Stillman College head coach in 2018 after spending 16 years at the helm of the Elizabeth City State University baseball program. His first five years as skipper culminated with the Vikings winning their first ever CIAA championship in 2005. Consequently, the Vikings program and players consistently garnered regional and national recognition in addition to maintaining a high graduation rate.
He is 45-84 through four seasons at Stillman, and has had players selected to Southern States Athletic Conference All-Conference team and the HBCU All-Star Game.
Whittle is also the founder of Terrance Whittle Baseball Camps which specializes in the development of the holistic person through sport training. His focus is on training the complete person with emphasis on academic, physical, mental, emotional, and psychological aspects of development.
A native of Petersburg, Virginia , Whittle was a three sport athlete at Petersburg High School. After graduating from PHS in 1989, he attended Chowan College (then a Junior College) in Murfreesboro, NC. Whittle played football and baseball for the Indians and earned a degree in Typesetting Technology in 1991. He then transferred to Virginia State University in the spring of 1992 where he played baseball and served as team co-captain in 1993 & 1994. Upon graduation in 1994, Whittle was named Head Baseball Coach at his Alma Mater. At that time he and his coaching staff were given he daunting task of rebuilding a struggling Trojan program into a CIAA contender, ultimately culminating with a CIAA championship in 1998.
In 1999, Whittle left VSU to become Head Coach, Director of Baseball Operations, and director of Player Development with the Regensburg Legionaere in Germany. The Regensburg team participated in the Bundesliga, which is the highest level of Baseball in the country. During Whittles’ tenure in Regensburg the team finished the 1999 season with a 25 – 9 record and were Bavarian State Champions. Also while in Regensburg, Whittle coached the Bavarian State Select team which also won the Bayarn Pokal championship in Berlin, Germany. In 2000 Whittle returned to the CIAA to become the Head Coach at Elizabeth City State University.
Whittle as served as an Associate scout with the Florida marlins, (1996-1998), he was also selected to participate in the Atlanta Braves Scouting and Player Development Internship program in 1998. Some of his accolades include the 1998 and 2004 CIAA Coach of the Year, the 1998 ABCA Louisville Slugger Award for coaching excellence, 2001 ABCA century club, 2002 ABCA Louisville Slugger conference championship award. Whittle is the only CIAA baseball coach to lead 2 different CIAA member Institutions to regular season and conference tournament championships.
Whittle is also affiliated with Major League Baseball International as an Envoy Coach (June 2002 – 2010) in the game development program having fulfilled (advisory) assignments in South Africa and Nigeria, specifically helping to select South Africa’s first World Baseball Classic and Olympics participant team, and also serving as a the technical advisor to the Nigerian national team during the All-Africa games. In January 2004 Whittle was presented by Major League Baseball International with the Julio Puente Envoy Coach of the Year Award.
His NCAA Division II services have included the South Atlantic Regional Advisory Selection Committee (1996, 97,98, 2000,2001), Member/Chair: NCAA Div. II South Atlantic Regional Advisory Selection Committee (2008), Member/Chair: NCAA Div. II Atlantic Regional Advisory Selection Committee – (2009 – 2012), NCAA Division II National Baseball Committee (2008 – 2012), Member/CIAA Baseball Coaches Association, (President, 2001 – 2005)
Coach Whittle holds a Master’s Degree in Education from Cambridge College.
Most important, of all the accolades and opportunities that Coach has had, he his most proud to be the father to three children: Jamila, Bilal and Shari’ah.
