Loyola University Maryland named Chris Baloga as its golf coach in August 2010. The local amateur player is the fourth individual to lead the Greyhounds' golf program in nearly four decades.

Several years of instruction and experience at both the amateur and college ranks coupled with an extensive knowledge of golf in the Baltimore area helped Baloga prepare for the position.

Baloga has employed a hands-on, active coaching approach to build on a program that won its fourth-consecutive Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship in 2011 - his first season.

Baloga brings a strong familiarity in golf instruction and high-level amateur play to Loyola. He served as an assistant golf coach at his alma mater Calvert Hall College High School in 2008 and 2009 and also provided instruction at junior golf clinics at Mount Pleasant Golf Course in 2002 and 2003.

An accomplished amateur golfer, Baloga led the Maryland Player of the Year rankings in 2010 after finishing second in 2009 and third in 2008. In August of 2011, Baloga traveled to Chambers Bay Golf Course in Washington to play in the United States Amateur Championship.

The Maryland State Golf Team also selected Baloga to play for Maryland at the USGA Men's State Team Championship in 2009.

In addition to his national amateur competition, Baloga has won several amateur titles around the region. Baloga took first place at the 2010 Washington Metropolitan Mid-Amateur Championship, the 2009 Baltimore City Amateur Championship, the 2008 Maryland Amateur Stroke Play Championship and the 2008 Middle Atlantic Amateur Championship. He also qualified for U.S. Open sectional qualifying for the past three years and made the cut for match play at the Maryland Amateur six times.

A former Division I student-athlete, Baloga played college golf for Towson University, where he earned Colonial Athletic Association Scholar Athlete honors all four years and served as a co-captain his senior year. Towson also honored him with a Student Athlete Award in 2005.

Baloga and his wife Marci reside in Towson.