Troy Squires joined the Eastern Kentucky University baseball staff in June of 2025 and serves as the program’s hitting coach.
In his first season with the Colonels, Squires helped the team to seven more wins than the year before. EKU ended the 2026 season by winning three straight games and eight of its final 11 contests. Under his hitting instruction, Khaleel Pratt was chosen as the Atlantic Sun Conference Freshman of the Year, earned third team All-ASUN honors and was chosen to the ASUN All-Freshman Team. In addition, David Alvarez picked up second team all-conference recognition, and Pedro Moreno was chosen to the third team.
Moreno was on the Brooks Wallace Award watch list, which honors the top shortstop in college baseball. Alvarez and Pratt each earned ASUN Player of the Week recognition during the season. As a team, EKU struck out the fewest times in the ASUN and had the fourth-best on-base percentage in the conference.
Squires spent four seasons on Gary Henderson’s staff at the University of Utah. He served as a volunteer assistant in 2022 and 2023 before being elevated to assistant coach before the 2024 season.
With the Utes, Squires assisted the hitters and catchers, in addition to working with team defense and overseeing the program’s camps.
Squires helped Utah to one of its best seasons in program history in 2024. The team collected the second-most wins all-time and entered the national rankings. Offensively, the Utes set several PAC-12 era program records including batting average, runs scored, hits, total bases, slugging and on-base percentage. An average of seven runs per game was the program’s most since 2006 and the third straight season that the scoring average increased from the season before. Squires mentored catcher Hunter Antillon who was behind the plate to catch for PAC-12 Pitcher of the Year Bryson Van Sickle and NCBWA Stopper of the Year contender Micah Ashman.
In 2019 and 2020, Squires was a graduate assistant coach at the University of Kentucky.
Squires hit .264 with 25 doubles, six home runs, 88 RBIs and 73 runs scored in 154 career games for the Wildcats between 2014 and 2018. He arrived at UK as a walk-on bullpen catcher and ended his career as a 23rd round selection by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2018 MLB Draft.
As a player at UK, Squires was part of two NCAA postseason teams – a regional appearance in 2014 and a trip to the Super Regionals in 2017. He was also inducted into the Kentucky Athletics Frank G. Ham Society of Character, which honors Wildcats who have shown an extraordinary commitment to academic excellence, athletic participation, personal development, career preparation and serving as a role model.
As a junior in 2017, Squires earned second team All-Southeastern Conference recognition after hitting .305 with a .427 on-base percentage, 10 doubles, 25 runs and 26 RBIs. He was chosen as the National Player of the Week by two organizations during his senior season.
Following his collegiate career, Squires spent the summer of 2018 playing professionally in the Blue Jays organization.
The Elizabethtown, Kentucky native earned a bachelor’s degree in communications at UK in 2017 and a master’s in sports leadership in 2020.
