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Former USC Baseball Assistant Coach Frank Sanchez Dies
University Southern California Trojans
November 06, 2026 | Baseball
LOS ANGELES – Former USC baseball assistant coach Frank Sanchez passed away on Wednesday, November 4 at the age of 73 due to complications from a brain tumor, his family shared with the University this week.
Sanchez was the lead assistant under Head Coach Mike Gillespie from 1987-1996 before going on to be the manager at Pepperdine from 1997-2003. A highly accomplished coach at every stop along his career, Sanchez also persevered through hardship off the field, coming back from three different brain surgeries to remove benign tumors, with the first coming in 1985, second in 1990 and third in 1998.