Ernest Radcliffe was named the fourth head baseball coach in Triton College history in July of 2024. Radcliffe’s playing and coaching career has spanned five decades. Radcliff comes to Triton after a successful 16-year run as the head varsity baseball coach at Morgan Park High School in Chicago.
 
Radcliffe guided Morgan Park to multiple Chicago Public League (CPS) Elite Eight and Final Four appearances. He led the Mustangs to City Championships in 2014 and 2021, along with a Runner Up finish in 2013. In 2016, he coached Morgan Park to the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) semifinals. His players succeeded on and off the field as 95 percent of them went on to college academically or received baseball scholarships.
 
Prior to Morgan Park, Radcliffe was the head coach at Hyde Park High School in Chicago from 1997-2007. During his tenure, Hyde Park became a City Championship contender and sent several student-athletes to college.
 
Radcliff got his start in coaching at the Southside YMCA in Chicago after the conclusion of his collegiate and professional playing career. Radcliffe was an All-American at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. In 1986, he was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and three years later played for the Virginia Generals, a minor club at the time in the Kansas City Royals organization. The Atlanta Braves gave Radcliffe a spring training invite in 1990.
 
In addition to his high school coaching tenure, Radcliffe from 1998-2016 coached the Chicago Cubs RBI program team, winning 11 regional championships and making 11 RBI World Series appearances. He was selected three times to be the RBI programs national coach.
 
Radcliffe received his Major League Baseball scouting certification in 2009 and is currently the director of his Radcliffe’s Youth Sports Organization whose mission is to provide the youth within the inner city of Chicago and surrounding suburbs with opportunities to develop citizenship, discipline, teamwork, and physical well-being through sports.
 
In 2024, Radcliffe was inducted into the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
 
Radcliffe, a Chicago native is married to his wife Tonya. He has 10 children and nine grandchildren. He coached his son Kendall who was drafted by the Texas Rangers in 2010. Sons Khyle and Jacoby are playing baseball collegiately at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.