Eric Hoffmann enters his second season as the volunteer assistant coach for the UND baseball team.
Prior to his move to UND, Hoffmann played for the Rockford Riverhawks (2008) and the Sioux City Explorers (2007). He also played two seasons (2005, 2006) with the Northwoods League Rochester Honkers, who won the league championship in 2006 with a 54-16 mark. This past summer, Hoffman returned to Rochester where he was a part of the championship-winning Honkers’ coaching staff.
Hoffmann was a 2007 Missouri Valley Conference honorable mention honoree as an outfielder for the University of Northern Iowa. He finished the season with the Panthers second on the team with a .342 batting average, 55 hits and 31 RBI. In 2004 and 2005, he was named to the all-region first team and all-district first team while playing for Iowa Central Community College.
A native of Erskine, Minn., Hoffmann played four years of high school baseball at Win-E-Mac High School, where he was a two-time all-state honoree. During his senior year, he was named the Minnesota Class A Player of the Year and the Pine to Prairie Player of the Year. A 2008 graduate of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Hoffmann has a bachelors of arts degree in general studies and a coaching minor. He also holds an associative arts degree from Iowa Central Community College, located in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
