Art Inabinet, 41, is preparing for his seventh season as head coach for the Francis Marion University baseball program and his ninth year at the university. He owns a 184-125-1 coaching mark at FMU, and a career coaching record of 268-179-1 in nine seasons at the four-year collegiate level.  In three of his six seasons as head coach, the Patriots have won 30 games, and three times FMU has earned invitations to the NCAA Division II tournament.

In 2005, he led FMU to a 34-16-1 record, a No. 14 national ranking, and an NCAA post-season invitation. During the 2005 campaign, he captured his 200th career win, and FMU’s 34 wins was one shy of the then team record of the 35 set in 1988. Ten of the 16 losses were to nationally ranked opponents. FMU’s team ERA of 3.11 was the lowest for a Patriot staff since 1980 and ranked eighth in NCAA II. The Patriots placed third in the Peach Belt Conference standings, equaling the program’s highest finish ever to that point, previously accomplished in 1993, 1997, and 2003.

The St. Matthews, S.C., native served as a Patriot assistant for two seasons (1999-2000) before succeeding long-time head coach Gerald Griffin as the second head coach in the program’s history. Griffin began the FMU baseball program in 1973. The Patriots posted a combined 37-48 record during Inabinet’s two years as Griffin’s assistant.

In 2004, Inabinet guided the Patriots to a 29-17 record and a fifth-place finish during the PBC regular season. Francis Marion won 10 of its final 11 contests and spent six weeks in the Division II Top 30 poll, including one week at No. 7, the program’s highest ranking ever. The team’s ERA of 3.47 led the PBC and ranked 11th nationally.

In 2003, he directed FMU to a 30-20 mark, a No. 18 national ranking, and a third-place finish at the NCAA’s South Atlantic Regional. Picked to finish eighth in the 2003 PBC preseason coaches’ poll, the Patriots finished third in the PBC with an 18-10 mark, only one-half game away from winning the program’s first-ever conference title. The 18 conference wins were a team record and the third-place finish equaled the program’s highest finish ever Playing an extremely tough schedule in 2003, FMU was 10-10 against Top-30 opponents.

In Inabinet’s previous two seasons at the helm of the Patriots, FMU posted records of 24-27 in 2001 and 26-27 in 2002.

Prior to joining the FMU staff in 1999, he served as head coach at North Greenville College for six seasons, recording a 155-122 mark (84-54 as a four-year institution). He guided the Mounties program from junior college status to a four-year program in 1996. After making that transition, North Greenville was 14-21 in 1996, 34-17 in 1997, and 36-16 in 1998, including a pair of second-place finishes in the Mid-South Conference his last two years. In 1995, Inabinet was named the Louisville Slugger "Coach of the Year" for the NJCAA Region X, as the Mounties posted a 31-22 record and won the region title.

Inabinet earned both the B.S. degree in history and the M.A.T. degree in secondary education (social sciences) from Winthrop University. As an undergraduate student, he was a four-year letterman on the Eagle baseball team. Following his playing career, he served as a graduate assistant coach at Winthrop from 1989 to 1991. He also was the head baseball coach at The Catawba School for one year (1992).

Inabinet is director of the annual FMU Baseball Camp held during the summer. He is married to the former Kimberly Reese, and the couple has one child, Reese.

Robbie Wilson, formerly of Boiling Springs, N.C., begins his third season as assistant coach for the Patriot program.

Wilson’s responsibilities include working in the areas of hitting and fielding, as well as recruiting.

With Wilson, 29, in the first base coaching box, Francis Marion posted a program-best 41-18 record, ended the year ranked sixth nationally, and made the program's first-ever trip to the NCAA Division II College World Series.  The Patriots were ranked as high as third in the national poll during the 2006 campaign and spent seven weeks in the Top 10.  Dating back to the 2005 season, the Patriots have appeared in 33 consecutive national polls.  FMU placed second in the Peach Belt Conference regular-season standings, the team's best showing ever.

In Wilson's first season (2005), Francis Marion recorded a 34-16-1 mark and ended the year ranked 14th nationally. The Patriots earned a NCAA post-season invitation, and the team’s 34 wins were one shy of the then team mark of 35 set in 1998. The Patriots placed third in the PBC standings.

Each of the past two summers, he has been the head coach of the Allegany Country Nitros of the New York Collegiate Baseball League. He guided the Nitros to a 27-23 record in 2006 and a spot in the league championship series.

Wilson spent the 2004 season as an assistant coach at Gardner-Webb University. The NCAA Division I Bulldogs compiled a 32-25 record and placed fourth in the Atlantic Sun Conference final regular-season standings.

A native of Chattanooga, Tenn., Wilson is a 1999 graduate of King College, where he was a four-year letterman on the baseball diamond. A center fielder, he was named his squad’s most valuable player in 1999. He visited South Africa in 1998 as a member of an Athletes in Action squad.

He also earned a master’s degree from East Tennessee State University in 2002. He served as a graduate assistant at ETSU, instructing four collegiate-level physical education classes.

Prior to taking the position at Gardner-Webb, he served as an assistant coach at King for three seasons (2000, 2001, 2002).

An avid Los Angeles Dodgers fan, Wilson has also worked as sports editor and writer for The Chattanoogan.com, and spent one year as assistant to the general manager of the Johnson City Cardinals minor league baseball organization.