Coach Roth begins his 36th season at Moeller coaching the Freshman Baseball Team. The past 35 years as Head Coach and this upcoming season, his 1st as Assistant Coach. He has a 681-125 overall coaching record as Head Coach with the Freshman team for an 84% winning percentage. His last two years, the Freshman team was undefeated with a 52-0 overall record. The Freshman team has won the GCL in 29 of the past 35 years. He is also the Moeller Junior Varsity Golf team head coach for the past 33 years with a dual match record of 521-158 for a 76.4% winning percentage. In addition to leading the freshman at Moeller, Roth has been coaching amateur baseball in the Cincinnati area for over 60 years. He has coached everything from T-ball to 11 years at the University of Cincinnati. Over this period of time, he has compiled an overall baseball coaching record of 2226-631. This includes his summer AABC teams that won the 16U Mickey Mantle World Series in 1970 and 1971, runners-up in the 14U Sandy Koufax World Series in 1987 and winners of the 13U Pony League World Series in 1991 with a 66-1 record. Coach Roth was honored in 2006 by the Hamilton County Sports Hall of Fame for his involvement in over 4500 sporting events in the Greater Cincinnati area and in 2012 was inducted into the Moeller High School Hall of Fame.
Roth has been hired by Major League Baseball for the past 46 years to serve as an Official Scorer for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2010, Coach Roth was appointed by MLB to serve on the Advisory Committee for Official Scorers. In addition, he serves as the Official Scorer for the University of Cincinnati home basketball games for the past 44 years. He has been a licensed Real Estate Broker with Irwin I. Roth, Inc. for the past 58 years.
Coach Roth lives with his wife, Anne, of 55 years. The couple have two children, Julie and Alan, and are blessed with 3 wonderful grandchildren, Jake (22), who is a Senior at Lehigh University and a member of their golf team, Hailey (20) a sophomore at Miami University, and Alyssa, a Freshman at Indiana University.
