Lewis “Tag” Montague will begin his sixth season as assistant coach of the George Mason baseball team for the 2019 season.
Montague, who serves as recruiting coordinator for the Patriots, has over 19 years of experience coaching at the college level.
Prior to joining the Mason coaching staff, Montague spent two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Richmond. While there, he worked with the hitters, infielders and baserunners, while also assisting in the Spiders’ recruiting efforts.
Montague also spent two years as an assistant coach at Old Dominion University. Prior to that, he was the head baseball coach at Douglas Freeman High School in Richmond, where his team finished second in the district in 2008-09.
Montague has coached 44 players that were drafted by the MLB, three All-Americans, five Freshman All-Americans, and two conference Players of the Year. During his stint at Old Dominion, he helped Josh Wright earn First-Team All-CAA honors and also saw Chris Baker post a 34-game hitting streak.
Under Montague's guidance, Mason's Chris Cook earned First Team All-Atlantic 10 honors at second base at the conclusion of the 2014 season.
During the 2012 season, Montague helped the Spiders reach their second-straight Atlantic 10 Championship game, winning 30 games in the process. Under Montague, Richmond led the A-10 in home runs (61) and slugging percentage (.439). In the national rankings, the Spiders ranked eighth in homers and 21st in slugging percentage.
In 2011, ODU finished second in the CAA during the regular season and lost in the conference championship game to James Madison. In his first stint with Monarchs from 1999-01, they were the regular season CAA Champions and reached the NCAA Regional as a No. 2 seed in 2000.
Prior to Douglas Freeman, Montague was an assistant coach at Marist College from 2005-07. Marist led the conference during the regular season in batting average, hits and runs scored. He was an assistant coach at George Washington University from 2002-04 where the Colonials averaged 39 wins per year.
Montague has also served as an assistant coach at Virginia Wesleyan College from 2001-02, at Richmond from 1998-99 and at Randolph-Macon in 1997-98.
As a player at VCU, Montague hit .417 in 1991 against Sun Belt Conference opponents and in a game against Radford, he played all nine positions and recorded a save in a 3-0 victory. Montague played just one season at VCU after transferring from Pfeiffer College, where he missed just one game in three years as a starter and was named Most Valuable Player during his sophomore season. Montague played his first season of prep baseball under Richmond Spiders Hall of Fame coach Ron Atkins in 1984, and helped lead Tucker High School to back-to-back Virginia State titles in 1985 and 1986.
Montague graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a physical education degree in 1998. He and his wife, the former Sheila McGroder, reside in Centreville.
