Loomis joins Minnesota Crookston after spending two seasons as the head coach at Northland Community and Technical College. Loomis is a native of East Grand Forks, Minn. He attended North Dakota State University for a year, where he played one year of collegiate football, before transferring to Valley City State University, where he played football and baseball from 1987-91. Loomis was an all-conference and all-district pitcher in 1991, and an all-conference pitcher in 1990. He was an honorable mention all-conference outfielder in 1987-88.
After college, he played two seasons of semi-pro baseball with the Moose Jaw Astros.Â
As head coach for the Northland Pioneers, Loomis helped increase the team's win total by eight games in his first season, and improved it to six more wins in 2023, as the team finished just short of .500 with an 18-20 mark.Â
Prior to Northland, he was a pitching coach at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 2015-17. Previously, he worked with Coach Gust as a pitching coach at Dakota Wesleyan University from 2013-14. He was a co-head coach for the Angels Pro Scout Team and Angels Amateur Baseball in Phoenix, Ariz., from 2011-14. Loomis was the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Trinidad State College in Colorado from 2002-05. Additionally, he was a graduate assistant pitching coach at Barry University in Florida from 1993-94, and coached with the Wisconsin Woodchucks in 2004. He got his start in coaching with the junior team in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, helping the team to provincial championships, the Western Canadian Championship, and qualified his team for the Canadian National Championships.Â
