Bio

DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS:

Todd Eastin begins his 16th year as the Director of Athletics and Fitness at South Mountain Community College in the 2025-26 academic year. 

Over the past 15 years, seven of SMCC's nine Athletic teams have qualified for postseason play. During this time period, SMCC has won regional championships in men’s basketball (2010-11, 2015-16), softball (2011, 2023), women’s volleyball (2018), men’s golf (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), and baseball (2014, 2024, 2025).  

Since the 2010-11 academic year, seven of the athletic programs (Men Golf, Women Golf, Baseball, Softball, Men Basketball, Women Volleyball, and Beach Volleyball) have qualified for NJCAA National Tournaments, with the Men’s Golf program winning six NJCAA Division II National Championships (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2022).

In each of the last six years, the student-athlete cumulative GPA at SMCC has equaled or exceeded 3.10, while achieving a 33-year high at SMCC in 2012-13 with 3.35.

BASEBALL COACH:

The 2025-26 season will represent Eastin’s 23rd as the Head Baseball Coach at South Mountain Community College. He has compiled an 805-463 record in his 22 years leading the Cougars. Eastin became the head baseball coach at SMCC In June 2003.

Eastin received the ABCA Region 1 Coach of the Year honors four times (2005, 2014, 2024, and 2026) and the NJCAA Western District Coach of the Year twice (2005, 2025). In his tenure at the helm of the program, the team has been honored as an NJCAA All-Academic Team in 21 of those seasons, posting a cumulative GPA well over 3.0 in each academic year. 

In 17 of his 22 seasons, Coach Eastin’s teams have been nationally ranked by the NJCAA. The Cougars' highest national ranking was a #3 ranking in the final poll of the 2025 season. In his first year at the helm (2003-04), the Cougars finished with a 26-win improvement (37) over the previous season (11).  

The program set a new school record with 48 wins in 2005, eclipsing the previous mark of 43. Coach Eastin’s teams have averaged 37 wins per season, including four Region I championships, four District Tournament appearances and two NJCAA National Championship appearances.

Before taking over the head coach position, Eastin was the pitching coach at SMCC from 1999 to 2003. During his 27 total years as at South Mountain, he has coached 71 professionally drafted players (51 as the Head Coach) and 251 of his players (176 to NCAA Division 1 institutions) have received scholarships to four-year colleges and universities. 

Eastin was born and raised in southern California, attending Walnut High School in Walnut, CA. He moved to Phoenix after graduating high school and became an All-Conference and All-Region catcher at South Mountain Community College in 1994 and 1995.

Eastin was selected by the San Francisco Giants in the 1994 draft. He then went on to play at NCAA Division I McNeese State University in Lake Charles, La. He graduated from McNeese with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and Sociology in 1997.

He returned to Phoenix in 1997, and in the fall of 1998 began serving as an assistant coach at SMCC, under head coach George Lopez. In 2002, Eastin completed an MBA degree from Arizona State University.