Career Highlights entering 2026 season:
Career Record: 680-348 (.661) -- 21 seasons
Record at Point Park: 573-244 (.701) -- 16 seasons
2012 NAIA World Series -- 5th Place
NAIA Opening Round (8) -- 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
MEC Tournament Champions (1) -- 2025
KIAC/RSC Tournament Champions (5) -- 2013, 2014, 2018, 2023, 2024
Conference Regular Season Champions (8) -- 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2024, 2025*
ABCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year -- 2012
Chuck Tanner Collegiate Baseball Manger of the Year -- 2012 -- Rotary Club of Pittsburgh
MEC Coach of the Year (1) -- 2025
KIAC/RSC Coach of the Year (3) -- 2013, 2015, 2017
AMC Coach of the Year (2) – 2011, 2012
CCAC Coach of the Year (1) -- 2004
Alma Mater: Trinity International-South Florida ('96); Northcentral Univ. (Master's '10)
(* earned top overall seed in MEC Baseball Tournament with best regular season conf. record)
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Loren Torres enters his 17th season as Point Park’s head baseball coach, after taking over the program in July 2009. He is the eighth head baseball coach in Point Park history.
Torres has led the Pioneers to historic success during his tenure, including six conference tournament championships, eight NAIA national tournament appearances and six coach of the year honors.
Torres enters the 2026 season with a 680-348 career record (.661), including a 70 percent winning percentage in conference play (573-244). For his career, Torres is averaging 32.4 wins per season.
Additionally, Torres is the only coach in Point Park history to have 500 or more wins (including all sports).
In 2025, Point Park’s first season in NCAA Division II, the Pioneers finished with a record of 41-13, winning the MEC North Division Regular Season Championship, before going on to win the 2025 MEC Baseball Tournament at GoMart Ballpark. Torres was voted the league’s coach of the year in 2025 and seven players earned All-MEC postseason accolades.
Jared Campbell was named the league’s Player of the Year and also garnered All-America accolades from NCBWA and ABCA. In addition to Campbell, three other players earned All-Region accolades, including second baseman Omar Morillo, shortstop Crixtian Taveras and pitcher Javier Cardoso.
Prior to the 2025 season, Torres coached 20 years in NAIA, including 15 seasons at Point Park and five at Judson (Ill.) University.
Torres became Point Park's all-time wins leader on April 26, 2022, when he picked up his 444th win. He passed legendary Pioneers' coach Mark Jackson, who was 443-196 (.695) in 12 seasons and led the Pioneers to six NAIA World Series appearances.
In 20 seasons in NAIA, Torres ranked in the Top 25 of active head coaches with 639 wins.
Under Torres, Point Park baseball consistently reached the NAIA national tournament with eight trips between 2012 and 2024. The Pioneers made four-consecutive appearances from 2021-24 before moving to NCAA Division II.
Point Park has won six conference tournament championships during Torres' 16 years at the school.
Additionally, Point Park finished the season ranked in the NAIA Top 25 final poll eight times under Torres -- 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
When the Pioneers became ranked in the 2011 season, it was the first time the Pioneers were in the Top 25 since the 1999 preseason poll. When Point Park reached the NAIA World Series in 2012, it was the first time the Pioneers were there in 14 seasons. The 2012 season was a special year with a school record for wins and a 53-11 overall record. The Pioneers placed fifth in the nation going 2-2 at the NAIA World Series.
The Pioneers ranked sixth in the final NAIA Baseball Top 25 Poll that season.
The 2012 Point Park baseball team will be inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in the fall of 2025.
Point Park won five-straight conference regular season championships from 2011 to 2015 and added two more in 2017 and 2024. In 2025, Point Park won its first MEC North Division Championship and was the top seed in the MEC Baseball Tournament.
Torres has been named conference Coach of the Year six times while at Point Park -- 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2025 -- with the first two in the American Mideast Conference and the next three in the KIAC/River States Conference. In 2025, PPU was a member of the Mountain East Conference.
Torres' collegiate head-coaching experience prior to Point Park came at Judson (Ill.) University, an NAIA member in Elgin, Ill., where he was the head coach for five seasons from 2003-07. While at Judson, he led the Eagles to the playoffs in four out of his five seasons.
Leading a program with an all-time winning percentage of .300, Torres had a record of 107-104-2 (.507). He left as the all-time win’s leader for the program in just five seasons.
Torres was named the Coach of the Year in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference in 2004 after guiding Judson to a 27-20 record. At the time, the 27 victories were the most in a single season at the school, but that record has since been broken.
Under Torres, Judson made four appearances in the CCAC tournament and two appearances in the National Christian College Athletic Association tournament. When the 2004 team made the NCCAA tournament, it was Judson’s first national tournament appearance. The Eagles also went to the NCCAA tournament in 2007.
He posted three 20-win seasons at Judson and won at least 18 games in each of his five seasons.
Before becoming the head coach at Judson, Torres was an assistant coach at Savannah (Ga.) College of Art and Design in 2002. He got his start in coaching at his alma mater, Trinity International University-South Florida in Miami, Fla., where he was an assistant coach for four seasons from 1997-00.
From 2007-09, he was a scout for the Kansas City Royals, and his responsibility included covering the South Florida and Puerto Rico areas. While at Judson, Torres served as a scout for the Philadelphia Phillies with responsibilities of covering the Midwestern states of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Indiana. He scouted the state of Georgia for the Cincinnati Reds while at SCAD in 2002. Overall, Torres spend nine seasons as a scout in Major League Baseball.
His coaching experience includes one year in the high school ranks. In 2001, he was the head coach at Northwest Christian Academy in Miami. Torres guided Northwest Christian Academy to a No. 2 ranking in the state of Florida, and he had three players drafted in the 2001 Major League Baseball draft. He was the Miami-Dade Coach of the Year in 2001.
Torres finished his playing career at Trinity International-South Florida in 1996 as a three-time All-Region performer. He set school records for batting average and stolen bases in 1995.
Torres is a 1992 graduate of Nova High School in Davie, Fla., where he played baseball for legendary coach Pat McQuaid. Nova has won several state championships during McQuaid's 34 years, and the Titans were ranked No. 1 in the nation by Baseball America after winning state titles in 2004 and 2005. Torres was inducted into the Nova High School Hall of Fame in 2001.
Before moving to Miami as a teenager, Torres lived in Patillas, Puerto Rico.
Torres earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education from Trinity International-South Florida in 1996. In the spring of 2010, Torres earned a master's degree in sports management and leadership from Northcentral University.
While at Judson, he served as the university's fitness center director as well as his baseball duties.
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