Adam Cornwell enters his fourth season as the pitching coach for the University of Indianapolis baseball team in 2025.
He arrives at UIndy after a two-year stint at the University of Dayton where he helped the Flyers finish second in the Atlantic 10 Conference South Division, reach the Atlantic 10 Conference championship game, and guide the team to the second most strikeout in program history in the 2021 season.
In his first year with the Greyhounds in 2022, Cornwell coached left-handed pitcher Xavier Rivas to mutiple prestigious honors during that season including; GLVC Pitcher of the Year, a First Team All-GLVC selection, a Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) First Team All-American selection, an American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings Second Team All-America selection, two Midwest Pithcer of the Year Awards (ABCA/Rawlings, D2CCA) and three First Team All-Midwest Region honors (ABCA/Rawlings, D2CCA, National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA).
In the 2023 season, Cornwell's pitching staff improved in every statistical category from 2022, leading the pitching rotation to its best strikeout per nine innings average, and second in total strikeouts in school history. The Hounds pitching, propelled the school to its third College World Series appearance. Included in that pitching rotation were, Brandon DeWitt and Seth Spencer, who both recieved all GLVC honors. He also brought in Brady Ware who became the first known player in collegiate or professional baseball to throw a no-hitter and hit for the cycle in the same game. (April 7, 2023 vs. Drury).
In August 2019, Cornwell joined the University of Dayton baseball staff following a one-year stay as an assistant coach/pitching coach at Iona College. Cornwell mentored pitchers, Stephen Hansen and Hunter Sibley, to All-MAAC accolades, and set a program record for strikeouts in a season in his lone season with the Gaels.
As a player, Cornwell spent three seasons at UIndy where he was a starting pitcher. In his three years with the Greyhounds, he lead the team to a pair of NCAA Division II Tournament appearances, and pitched in the team's GLVC Tournament championship game win over Rockhurst in 2016. After the 2016 season, Cornwell transferred to the University of Pittsburgh, and later signed for the Traverse City Beach Bums in the Frontier League during the 2018 season.
Cornwell graduated from UIndy with a bachelor's in sport management in 2016, and earned his master's in athletic coaching education from Ball State in 2019.
