2007 Coaching Staff

Head Coach Curt Fredrickson
5th season
Record: 61-121, 23-64 NSIC in first four seasons

Curt Fredrickson, who was an all-American baseball player for the Wolves during his career from 1970-74, took over as NSU head baseball coach in 2003. Fredrickson is also the head women's basketball coach at Northern.

As an amateur baseball player, he's had an unmatched 30-year career. Fredrickson is also the only player in the history of South Dakota amateur baseball to amass more than 200 home runs and 200 career pitching victores. He ranks second in career home runs and third in all-time pitching victories.

"We've always had good baseball in this area, and my first goal will be to get some of those area kids to stay here and play," Fredrickson said. "When I played, Bart Berndt did a nice job as the head coach of putting a good product on the field and making it a good experience for his kids. I've always felt like I've owed it to the school to try and keep the program a good situation for student-athletes to come here and play baseball."

Fredrickson says the level of competition in baseball has changed a lot since Northern's move to NCAA II in 1995-96.

"We're in an extremely competitive league," Fredrickson said. "The top schools in our conference have a lot more to work with as far as scholarship money so it's an uphill battle. Coach Prosser did a nice job of bringing the program along the last few years and keeping it alive. He's got a good core group of young players here and we just need to add some pieces to the puzzle. Pitching is always the name of the game and we'll need some help there. With the coaching transition taking place now you get a late start on recruiting so that's what we're trying to catch up with now."

Alex Ferguson
Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator
1st Season (3rd season with NSU)

Alex Ferguson begins his third season at Northern State University. Ferguson served two years as a graduate assistant and now begins his first year as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. Ferguson is the Wolves first base, hitting, catching, pitching and infield coach. An Overland Park, Kansas native, Ferguson spent two years as a baseball instructor at Mac-N-Seitz baseball academy prior to coming to NSU. The training facility, located in Lenexa, Kansas, is owned and operated by former major leaguers Kevin Seitzer and Mike Macfarlane.  Ferguson also is an assistant coach for the Aberdeen Smitty’s high school program, and helped to lead the Smitty’s to a South Dakota high school state championship in 2005 and finishing second in State Legion the past two seasons.

Ferguson attended the University of Kansas before transferring to Principia College (IL) where he earned his BA in Sports Management in 2003. At Principia College, Ferguson played at first and third, and pitched earning All-Conference Honors two years and was elected team captain his senior year.  Ferguson's career average was .347 while collecting 127 hits.

 

John Krogstrand

Graduate Assistant

1st Season

John Krogstrand will be entering his first season as a graduate assistant at Northern State. Krogstrand will coach the outfielders and hitters and will also work with pitchers. Krogstrand is an Aberdeen native who graduated this past spring with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sport Administration from DI baseball powerhouse Wichita ( Kan.) State University. Along with his experience as a player, Krogstrand has coached in the Aberdeen Smitty’s High School baseball program for the past four seasons. Krogstrand’s summer teams have reached the VFW State Championship Game in each of the past two seasons, and won the title in 2005. Krogstrand has a career head coaching record of 97-77.

Prior to coaching in the Smitty’s program, Krogstrand played for the Aberdeen Legion squad, which captured 3 rd place honors in the 2001 State American Legion tournament and the 2002 South Dakota State High School Tournament. Krogstrand played first base, outfield and pitched for those teams. Krogstrand is the son of Northern State alumni Mark (B.S. ’77, M.Ed. ’82) and Penny (B.S. ’76) of Aberdeen.

 

Strength and Conditioning Coach Derik Budig

Northern State strength & conditioning coach Derik Budig has propelled Wolves' athletics to new heights thanks to his comprehensive strength program that has been implemented into the NSU athletic system.

Before coming to Aberdeen, the Yankton, S.D., native has spent the last year at the University of Texas, at El Paso (UTEP) as a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach. Prior to Northern Budig served as a strength and conditioning consultant for Olympic track and field athletes in El Paso. Prior to his time at UTEP, Budig was an intern for the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the area of strength and conditioning.

Budig has also had success on the football field where he was a four-year starter and two-year team captain for Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Budig is in charge of developing and coordinating programs which assists student/athletes in developing overall physical strength and conditioning at NSU. He also organizes the weight room for all of Northern's athletic programs, is the sponsor for NSU's FCA and is the coordinator of the Wolves Challenge strength and conditioning program.

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