Meet Our Head Coach
Brooklyn-born lifelong New York Mets fan Ron Murphy is never far from a baseball diamond.
A one-time coach of Boston Red Sox reliever Brendan Donnelly, Murphy’s first head-coaching position was at Albuquerque’s St. Pius X High School.
After taking the Sartans to the Class AAAA state championship game for the second year in a row in 1997, Murphy became the baseball coach at Rio Rancho High School in time for its first season (1998). He was 117-42 with the Sartans, and has led the Class 5A Rams to 181 victories and just 69 losses in ten seasons at RRHS (The Rams were 24-5 and District 1-5A Champs in 2007 ). In 2007 the Rams went on to win the State Championship without making a error in the three State Championship games and only allowing two runs scored ! Coach Murphy currently has 298 total wins as a head coach and is expected to reach the 300 milestone this season.
Married to Minerva, the Murphys have two volleyball-playing college daughters, Valerie and Amber, and a 5-year-old son, Tyler. Valerie Played at Marshalltown college in Iowa and now attends UNM. Amber plays Volleyball for San Jacinto in Houston and they finished 6th in the country last season. Tyler wakes up everyday wanting to be at RRHS baseball camp with all the HS players !
Murphy has been the head coach at several North-South All-Star baseball games in Las Cruces, and last June he was the head coach for the West All-Stars in the New Mexico Baseball Classic at Isotopes Park.
