Former Irvine Valley baseball standout player Sean Guite helped the University of Notre Dame to one of its best seasons this spring.
The Fighting Irish reached the College World Series before losing to Texas A&M in the Bracket 1 elimination game.
Notre Dame finished the season with a 41-17 overall record after making the program's third trip to Omaha for the College World Series.
The Irish reached the Super Regional round in consecutive seasons for the first time in program history. They eclipsed the 40-win plateau for the first time since 2006 and knocked off the No. 1 overall seed Tennessee in the Super Regionals.
Guite, who played at IVC in 2010 and 2011 and batted .327 as a freshman, was in his third season as director of operations after joining the Irish in January of 2020.
He joined Notre Dame after spending two seasons as an assistant coach at Georgetown College in Kentucky.
Prior to Georgetown, Guite worked with head coach Link Jarrett at UNC-Greensboro for two season as the volunteer assistant. Guite worked primarily with the outfielders and was also the travel coordinator for the Spartans.
Three of four outfielders who played in at least 41 games earned All Southern Conference recognition under Guite's supervision.
Guite was a two-year letterwinner for the Spartans from 2013-14, playing in 68 games for UNCG at third base. He earned First Team All-Southern Conference honors as a senior when he posted a .366 batting average with 74 hits. He led the team with 52 runs scored and 15 doubles while also posting three home runs and driving in 21 runs. He recorded 21 multiple-hit games as a senior and tallied a 13-game hitting streak during the year while finishing with a .440 on-base percentage.
Guite additionally was a standout in the classroom, earning Capital One Academic All-District First Team honors as a senior and was a two-time SoCon All-Academic selection. Additionally, he was a two-time SoCon Academic Honor Roll recipient. He earned his degree in 2014 from UNCG in sociology.
Guite spent two years at Irvine Valley. He was a two-year starter at Irvine Valley, including posting a .327 batting average as a freshman with 37 hits. He posted 31 hits his sophomore season, including a .536 batting average (15-of-28) as a leadoff hitter. He also paced the team with 176 putouts at the hot corner.
Guite was a three-year letterwinner at Huntington Beach High where he was named the school's Athlete of the Year during the 2009-10 academic year.
He helped his team make the program's first-ever appearance in the CIF Championship game in the school's 100-year history of baseball.
He garnered First Team All-Sea View League honors as a senior. He earned a pair of varsity letters in football, holding school records for the most passing yards in a career, most touchdown passes in a game and career, most passing completions in a game, season and career and longest passing touchdown in a game.
