Britt Bonneau - Director of Player Development - Baseball Coaches

Britt Bonneau

Title:
Director of Player Development

Britt Bonneau joined the Oklahoma baseball staff in August 2018 as volunteer assistant coach. He became OU’s director of player development in 2021.

While serving as volunteer coach, Bonneau coached the Sooners’ outfielders and was the first base coach on game days. A former OU baseball player, Bonneau joined the Sooners coaching staff after spending 22 years as head coach at Abilene Christian where he compiled 756 victories.

Bonneau built Abilene Christian into a Division II power before leading the program’s transition to Division I beginning with the 2014 season. He led the Wildcats to eight Lone Star Conference South Division titles, two regular season championships and five LSC postseason tournament titles. Bonneau’s teams were also invited to nine of 13 NCAA Division II South Central region tournaments between 2000-13. In 2003, he led the Wildcats to the NCAA Division II World Series.

A six-time Lone Start Conference Coach of the Year, Bonneau tutored 17 Division II All-Americans, including six first-team selections, as well as 28 all-region selections. He tutored nine LSC MVPs, six LSC Pitchers of the Year and two Rawlings/ABCA Gold Glove winners. In the Division I era, he coached five All-Southland Conference players.

Bonneau completed his playing career at Oklahoma in 1992, when he scored 72 runs, knocked 19 doubles, six triples and nine home runs, stole eight bases and drew 55 walks, to help the Sooners to the College World Series. He spent his first three seasons at Lubbock Christian, where he helped lead LCU to the 1991 NAIA World Series and was named Rawlings Region IV Player of the Year and a first-team All-American. He led the nation in hits (111), runs scored (109) and RBIs (98) and was third in home runs (19).

He began his coaching career as an assistant at the University of Texas-San Antonio in 1993 before moving to LCU in 1994 and then ACU in 1996. Bonneau, a native of Farmers Branch, Texas, received his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology in 1995 from LCU. He and his wife Cari have four daughters: Jaci Giletto (married to Jack Giletto), Mati, Scotlyn and Landry.