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Paul Stevens played baseball for the Flyers form 1974-1976 after transferring from the University of South Alabama. Stevens established himself as one of the finest second baseman in Lewis baseball history. 

During those two years, he is listed in seven all-time career leading categories at Lewis.  His .346 lifetime batting average ranks 19th all-time among Lewis hitters. 

In 1975, Stevens drew 70 walks, a mark that ranks him first all-time.  He was part of a double-play combination that also set a Lewis team mark during the 1975 season. 

Stevens played on two National Championship teams for Lewis during 1975 and 1976.  In 1975, he won the National Tournament Charlie Hustle Award and in 1976 season he was named team captain, while receiving First Team All-American honors and was awarded the National Tournament Golden Glove Award. 

Stevens was named to the United States Pan American Team and represented the USA in Mexico City during the 1976 season.  Later that year, Stevens was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 16th round. 

He played three years of minor league baseball with the Royals before being traded to the Oakland Athletics in 1979.  Stevens became a major league scout after his playing career where he was with the New York Mets during the 1981 and 1982 seasons.

In 1983, he was named assistant baseball coach at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.  Stevens was an assistant coach for three years before getting promoted to head coach at Northwestern, where he was at for 28 years and won Big Ten Coach of the Year three times while recording 674 career victories, a program high. 

Stevens had 67 players drafted by a Major League Baseball club or signed to a professional contract, including his oldest son, Trevor, who joined the professional ranks in 2013. Overall, Stevens coached 94 All-Big Ten selections including former New York Yankees manager and four-time World Series champion Joe Girardi, two-time Major League Baseball All-Star Mark Loretta and recent major leaguers J.A. Happ, George Kontos, Jake Goebbert, Bo Schultz and Eric Jokisch. 

Also during his time in Evanston, the Wildcats excelled in the classroom. Since 1985, 215 student-athletes earned Academic All-Big Ten honors, while eight were named CoSIDA Academic All-Americans.

Following his retirement at Northwestern, Stevens became an assistant coach for the University of Chicago where he has been for the last seven seasons.