Trevin Sonnier
Trevin Sonnier

Bio

Trevin Sonnier enters his first season in the spring of 2023 as an Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator for the Howard Hawk baseball program. Sonnier came to Big Spring after most recently spending time on staff with Abilene Christian University in 2022.

Sonnier was part of a year that featured a new direction, as ACU headed into a new era as a member of the Western Athletic Conference in 2022. The Wildcats finished with 30 wins yet again, going 30-29. ACU finished fourth in the Southwest Division of the conference, securing a 4 seed in Conference Tournament. After initially falling in round one of the tournament, ACU rattled off four wins in three days to advance to the WAC Championship Game – including back-to-back wins against nationally ranked Grand Canyon University. It was the first Championship Game appearance in program history at the Division 1 level.


ACU did the unthinkable in 2022, winning 5 games against Power 5 opponents and winning 4 games against nationally ranked teams for the first time in program history, including wins at No. 12 TCU, No. 9 Texas Tech, and a top 25 GCU.

Sonnier worked primarily with the infielders and baserunners while also assisting with the hitters.

ACU broke 71 school records as a team or individually in 2022, most in the offensive category. Bash Randle finished as an all-conference performer and was named to the all-defensive team at shortstop, as well. The Wildcats set records for the season for slugging percentage (.484), games played (59), at-bats (2,074), doubles (124), hits (610), home runs (83), walks drawn (283), runs batted in (417), total bases (1,003), most times hit by pitch (92), and most stolen bases (80).


In 2019, he was an assistant coach with the Dallas Baptist University Patriots under head coach Dan Heefner. While at DBU, Sonnier was a key part of a coaching staff that helped guide the Patriots 43-21 record in 2019 and the finals of the Lubbock Regional.

Prior to DBU, Sonnier began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Oral Roberts University under head coach Ryan Folmar in the spring of 2018. That first year, he helped lead the Golden Eagles to a 38-20 record and an appearance in the Fayetteville Regional.

Before beginning his coaching career, Sonnier - a native of Nederland, Texas - began his college baseball career at TCU where he spent one year as a Horned Frog. He then spent his Redshirt Freshman year at Panola College, earning Second Team All-Conference honors before transferring to DBU. Sonnier was an infielder for Dan Heefner and the Patriots in 2014 and 2015. In two seasons, Sonnier helped lead the Patriots to a pair of trips to the NCAA postseason, including the program’s first-ever hosting opportunity, when DBU played host to the 2015 Dallas Regional. Sonnier then graduated from DBU in 2015 and transferred to Oral Roberts for his fifth and final college baseball season.

In 2016, he played all 59 games at shortstop for ORU while leading the Golden Eagles with 11 stolen bases and posting a .308 batting average and was named to the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List, which recognizes the best shortstop in college baseball.

Shortly after the 2016 baseball season, Sonnier signed a professional contract with the Chicago White Sox. He played two years of professional baseball, split between the Chicago White Sox organization and the Washington Wildthings of the Frontier League.

Trevin and his wife Dixie have two daughters, Adeline and Rosalie, and one son, Beau.