Southwest alumni in baseball

Boe knows baseball

Dennis Boe, a graduate of Minneapolis Southwest, has been around baseball along time. The retired high school coach and Twins scout now brings his experience to Ridgewater College.

The Warriors’ new head baseball coach attended North Hennepin Community College and Hamline College. His first teaching job was at Waseca where he coached freshman baseball for five years. He was the head coach of the Redwood Falls/Redwood Valley Cardinals for 29 years, ending a 34-year teaching career in 2008.

He covers the Upper Midwest for the Twins, working under the supervision of Mark Wilson and Terry Ryan. He scouts college (especially Northern Sun), high school, Legion and the Northwoods League.

He’s no stranger to Ridgewater Baseball. His son, Corey, played second based for Dwight Kotila in 2002-04 and went on to Northland College in Ashland, Wis., where he played for Joel Barta, who succeeded Kotila in 2008. Boe is replacing Barta, who resigned in September to become head coach at the University of Mary, a NCAA Division II program in North Dakota.

Boe and his wife, Katie, also have a son, Casey, who lives in New Ulm and has two children. Corey teaches and is a head baseball coach in Iowa.

Boe worked with 16 to 20 first- and second-year players over 19 practice days this fall. He expects a roster of 20-24 come January and the start of small-group practice.

“I wasn’t thinking of returning to coaching but when this opportunity came up it seemed like a good fit,” Boe said. “It seems like a nice group of boys.