For Immediate Release:

Where are they now?Former Paints’ players extending baseball careers in college ranks

     During the past 15 years, hundreds of young men have worn the navy and red uniform of the Chillicothe Paints.
     After retiring from professional baseball, former Paints’ players have moved on and into wide a variety of occupations, including coaching the game they love so much.
     Such is the case with former Paints’ standouts, Matt McCay, Andrew See, and Rick Blanc.
     See is currently in his second year as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for the Ohio University Bobcats baseball team. He spent the 2005 and 2006 seasons in a similar position at Appalachian State University and was an assistant coach at University of North Carolina-Greensboro in 2003.
     Andrew was a standout player for Ohio for three years while playing centerfield, first base and as a pitcher. He mounted a career .350 batting average with 33 homeruns and 116 RBI’s. He belted 17 round-trippers and a school record 70 RBI’s in his senior season of 2001.
     See joined the Paints following his senior year and played in Chillicothe for three years. He started his pro career as a third baseman and outfielder, but later became the closer on the pitching staff.
     Blanc recently joined the coaching staff at Bowling Green State University, his alma mater, where he will hold the positions of pitching coach and recruiting coordinator. He has been the pitching coach the past four years at Longwood University in Virginia.
     Blanc enjoyed an outstanding four-year stint with the Paints, and was twice named to the Frontier League All-Star team, including being voted FL Pitcher of the Year in 2001 when he boasted a 13-1 record. In five years of professional baseball, he built a 28-14 slate with a 3.80 ERA and 12 saves. He also served one year as the pitching coach for Chillicothe.
     McCay, the all-time career hits leader for the Paints was hired in 2007 as an assistant coach for the University of North Carolina Tarheels.  The Tarheels are the defending ACC champions and appeared last year in the NCAA Division I World Series.
     Matt will be working with the UNC hitters and catchers, and will help with the teams’ weight lifting and conditioning programs.
     McCay was a three-time Frontier League All-Star and was voted to the Chillicothe Paints’ “All-Time Team”. He was selected as the Paints’ Most Valuable Player in 2003 and is the Paints’ record holder for career and single-season hits (2002).
     Matt is also an instructor at the “Impact Baseball Showcase Camp and with “Dirtbag Baseball”, an elite North Carolina based traveling team.
     Matt and his wife, Julia, make their home in Chapel Hill, NC.