TicketsChris Krepline joined the Cincinnati Baseball coaching staff as the director of pitching development in September 2024.
UC ended the 2025 season with a 33-26 overall record and earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament, the seventh tournament trip in program history and the first at-large berth since 1974. The Bearcats were the No. 3 seed in the Knoxville Regional and won their opening game against No. 2 seed Wake Forest, 11-6.
Cincinnati reached the 30-win plateau for the second straight season, the first time the program had won at least 30 games in consecutive seasons since doing it three straight years from 1999-2001. UC also captured six ranked wins, the most in a season in school history.
Krepline helped coach a pair of All-Big 12 pitchers in Nathan Taylor and Kellen O’Connor. Taylor, who earned his second straight all-conference nod, was 7-2 with a 3.93 ERA in 87.0 innings pitched. O’Connor, in his first year with the program, totaled 70.2 innings pitched and logged 60 strikeouts.
UC broke the single-season school record for strikeouts in 2025, racking up 496 K’s. Taylor accounted for 91 strikeouts, the first Bearcat pitcher with at least 90 strikeouts in a season since 1999.
Krepline came to Cincinnati following a successful stint as the head coach at Lawrence University. From 2019-24, he earned two Midwest Conference Coach of the Year awards and held Lawrence to two conference titles (2022 and 2024).
In 2024, Krepline's squad posted a 31-11 record, the most wins in a season in school history, and four of his student-athletes earned All-America recognitions. Outfielder Jacob Charon was named the league's player of the year and pitcher Quinn Berglin was named the pitcher of the year.
His 2022 team also won the Midwest Conference and took the conference tournament crown as well, earning the school's first trip to the NCAA Division III Tournament since 1979. He earned D3Baseball and ABCA Region 9 Coach of the Year accolades that season.
Overall, Krepline coached 21 all-conference players,12 all-region selections, and 6 All Americans during his time at Lawrence.
Krepline, who also had a stint as an assistant coach at Lawrence in 2013 and 2014, was an assistant coach at St. Norbert college from 2015-18. During that time, he coached six All-Midwest Conference and four All-Central Region pitchers. St. Norbert also won three Midwest Conference North Division titles, a Midwest Conference championship and played in the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament.
During the summer Krepline spent his time in the prestigious Northwoods League as the Field Manager for the Green Bay Rockers. In 2023, his team set a franchise record for wins and won its first Northwoods League Championship in its 17-year history.
Krepline is a 2009 graduate of Carthage College, where he earned his bachelor's degree in exercise and sport science. He received a master's degree in applied exercise science from Concordia University-Chicago in 2015.
He was a pitcher at Carthage College, helping lead his team to the NCAA Division III World Series in 2007. A two-sport star, Krepline was also a wide receiver on the football team, winning a CCIW Championship in 2004, and making the National Quarterfinals.
Krepline played professional baseball for two years in the Frontier League.
Krepline and his wife, Bri, have two sons, Boe and Crewe, and a daughter, Sadie.