Jake Silverman joined San Diego baseball in July of 2026 as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. He is set to begin his first season with the Toreros in 2027.
He arrived at USD from TCU, where he spent two seasons as the Horned Frogs' director of program development after joining the program in the summer of 2024. TCU went 72-41 during his time in Fort Worth, highlighted by a 39-win 2025 campaign in which the Horned Frogs finished third in the Big 12, advanced to the Big 12 Championship game and earned an NCAA Regional berth. Silverman also assisted on a recruiting class that ranked 13th nationally according to Baseball America — the highest-ranked group in the Big 12.
Prior to TCU, Silverman served as the associate head coach at Washington, where the Huskies went 54-50-1 during his tenure. A central figure in Washington's recruiting efforts, he twice enticed athletes to campus despite their selection in the MLB Draft and landed the No. 3-ranked prep recruit in the state of Washington.
Silverman joined the Huskies from Cal Poly, where he spent three seasons as an assistant coach in charge of the Mustangs' pitching staff.
Before Cal Poly, Silverman coached at Cal State Fullerton, UCLA and Nevada over an 11-year span. During four seasons at Nevada, he served as the Wolf Pack's recruiting coordinator while working with the catchers and assisting with hitting and base running instruction.
Silverman spent five seasons (2011-15) at UCLA as an assistant to the pitching coach, helping the Bruins compile a 202-103-1 record with four postseason appearances and two trips to the College World Series — including the program's national championship season in 2013.
He began his coaching career as an undergraduate assistant at Cal State Fullerton (2009-10), where the Titans appeared in the 2009 College World Series, advanced to the 2010 NCAA Super Regionals and went 36-9 in league play across his two seasons.
A 2005 graduate of Foothill High School in Santa Ana, California, Silverman played at Fullerton College, batting .350 as a freshman in 2006 and earning the program's Art Nunn Award in 2007. He earned an associate's degree from Fullerton College before completing a bachelor's degree in communications from Cal State Fullerton in 2009.
