Perry Cunningham enters his 14th season with the Waynesburg baseball program, and his 13th as one of the team’s assistant coaches. Prior to being an assistant to head coach Mike Humiston, he served as one of the team’s pitching consultants.
Cunningham sports an impressive baseball resume, which includes a long and very successful stint in the independent Frontier Baseball League.
After spending 2003 in the Northeast League as a member of the Allentown Ambassadors, Cunningham was signed by the Chillicothe (Ohio) Paints of the Frontier League. From 2004 to 2007, the Steubenville, Ohio, native enjoyed one of the finest careers ever by a Frontier League pitcher.
He compiled a career record of 37-21, with a career 3.54 ERA over 497.2 innings pitched and 78 starts. At the time of his retirement from baseball, Cunningham ranked second in league history in wins (37), starts (76) and innings pitched (497.2).
While with the Paints, Cunningham also gave individual and small group instruction at Triple Crown Sports in Chilicothe for two years.
Prior to his work in the minor leagues, Cunningham was a three-time All-West Virginia Interscholastic Athletic Conference (WVIAC) selection while competing at Davis & Elkins College. As a senior, he was named WVIAC Pitcher of the Year and Davis & Elkins College Male Athlete of the Year.
Cunningham’s coaching career began in 2004 as a volunteer assistant at D&E. The following season, he coached at Liberty High School in Bealeton, Va., before coming to Waynesburg before the 2008 campaign.
Cunnningham graduated from D&E with a degree in exercise science and added an MBA from Waynesburg in the Fall of 2009. He is a 1999 graduate of Steubenville High Shool and currently resides in Waynesburg with his wife Pam and their sons Cooper and Cade. Pam and Perry are the proud owners of Back Roads Energy.
