Micah Grover Joins Butler Baseball Coaching Staff

EL DORADO, Kan. – Micah Grover has been hired as an assistant coach on the Butler baseball coaching staff, head coach Ty Reese announced Tuesday.

Grover will serve as Butler's hitting coach while working with the catchers and outfield. He will coach third base and also serve as the Grizzlies recruiting coordinator.

Grover comes to Butler by way of Barton Community College where he spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach on the Cougar coaching staff.

While on staff in Great Bend, Grover helped the Cougars to a 133-49 record across three years while they won the KJCCC West Division championship back-to-back years in 2022 and 2023. Grover served as the dugout coach and his primary duty was coaching the catchers and first baseman while he also covered recruiting the states of Kansas, Texas and Colorado. The Cougars had six All-KJCCC student athletes in 2024 including the Jayhawk West MVP Robby Bolin. Grover helped mentor honorable mention All-KJCCC honoree, catcher Grant Nottleman.

Grover has spent this summer serving as an assistant coach with the Kansas City Royals Scout Team Program. He coaches third base and is the primary offensive coach for players that are some of the highest rated in the state of Kansas for the 2025 class.

Grover played for Barton from 2019-21. He had 167 career at bats, holding a .367 career on-base percentage with 38 hits and 35 RBI. His best season as a Cougar was his last as he hit .258 with 32 hits, 31 RBI and five home runs in 2021. Grover also played two seasons in the Sunflower Collegiate League, one for the Cheney Diamond Dawgs and his last season with the Great Bend Bat Cats. He signed to play at Washburn University before a knee injury sidelined his playing career, opening the door to coaching.

A Cheney, Kan., native, Grover was a three-sport athlete at Cheney High, graduating in 2018. Grover was Cheney's do-it-all athlete his senior season. He served as the Cardinals' quarterback in the fall, small forward in the winter and did everything on the diamond in the spring. Cheney's football, basketball and baseball teams went a combined 53-9 that school year. He hit for a .514 average with 37 hits, 42 RBIs, 13 extra-base hits, four home runs and three strikeouts his senior season, earning first team All-State honors from The Wichita Eagle and Class 3A Kansas Player of the Year honors from KSHSAA.

Grover received a bachelor's degree in Sports Management from Fort Hays State University in 2022.