Nate Causey - Baseball Coach - Grand Canyon University Athletics

Nate Causey

Title:
Assistant Coach / Recruiting Coordinator
Years at GCU:
2026: 3rd season
Email:
nathaniel.causey@gcu.edu
Alma Mater:
Arizona State (2014)

Path to GCU
2008-11		Gilbert HS Student-athlete
2012-14		Arizona State Student-athlete
2014-15		Colorado Rockies organization Minor leaguer
2018-21		New Mexico Volunteer assistant
2022		Pima CC Assistant coach / recruiting coord.
2023		New Mexico Assistant coach / recruiting coord.
2024-		Grand Canyon Assistant coach / recruiting coord.

Nate Causey completed his second season serving as Grand Canyon's recruiting coordinator and assistant coach in 2025 after joining the program in July of 2023.

Noted as an effective hitting coach, Causey left his imprint on the Lopes program immediately. In his first season, GCU posted a .313 team batting average that ranked 14th nationally and was a noticeable improvement from the team's .296 batting average the year before his arrival. Causey and GCU's staff helped lead the Lopes to a 2024 WAC Regular-Season Championship and a trip to the NCAA tournament. GCU did some damage in the Tucson Regional, defeating the host Wildcats and a top-25 Dallas Baptist team to reach the program's first regional championship.

A former professional baseball player in the Colorado Rockies system, the Gilbert native makes the move to GCU after most recently holding the position of assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at New Mexico.

"It's an opportunity of a lifetime to get to work with off-the-charts coaches and people like Coach Wallis and his staff," Causey said at the time of his hiring. "I grew up in Phoenix, so this is home for me. This is the type of elite program you dream of being a part of, and I can't wait to get to work."

The 2023 season marked Causey's return to Albuquerque after a previous three-year stint with the Lobos as a volunteer assistant coach. In 2023, Causey also held the role of New Mexico's hitting coach for an offense that ranked third nationally with a .329 batting average and fourth nationally with a .560 slugging percentage. He helped second-year head coach Tod Brown post a winning record and log wins over nationally ranked opponents, including Oregon State and Texas Tech.

"I am very excited to welcome Coach Causey to Grand Canyon University," said Wallis, who leads a Lopes program that has won three consecutive WAC regular-season championships. "Over the last five years, I've seen Nate's relentless work ethic on the recruiting trail. I can't wait for him to get going with our program and help us recruit the best student-athletes in the West and nationally.

"With Nate, we are getting not only a great recruiter, but also a great catching and hitting coach. He is the perfect fit for our program, and I'm proud to bring him back home to Phoenix to help us continue to move GCU Baseball forward."

In between his stints at New Mexico, Causey took on the recruiting coordinator title for the first time back in the Grand Canyon State at Pima Community College for the 2022 season. In his lone season, Pima set a program record with 38 wins and ranked in its league's top three in most offensive categories.

Causey's first stint with the Lobos came under longtime head coach Ray Birmingham. With the program for the 2019, 2020 and 2021 seasons, the Lobos had five players drafted and were off to a 14-4 start in the COVID-shortened 2020 season.

The product of Gilbert High School was twice selected by the Colorado Rockies in the MLB Draft. A 46th rounder out of high school in 2011, Causey elected to play at Arizona State. Following his three-year career with the Sun Devils, he was a 19th-round pick of the Rockies.

Causey spent the 2014 and 2015 seasons in the Rockies' minor league system, playing in Grand Junction (Rookie), Boise (Single-A Short Season) and Asheville (Single-A). He hit seven home runs, racked up 43 RBIs and got on base at a .378 clip in his two professional seasons.

In three seasons at Arizona State, Causey was a catcher and first baseman. A career .298 hitter, Causey improved to be an All-Pac 12 first-team selection as a junior and hit .323 with 33 runs, 14 doubles, four home runs and 31 RBIs.

Causey earned his Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Arizona State.