A veteran coach among the college ranks, Lawn has 37 years of coaching experience dating back to his first job as the pitching coach at Contra Costa College in 1986. He spent two seasons with the Comets before moving on to be the graduate assistant at Nevada in 1988. After two seasons with the Wolf Pak and before heading to Cal, Lawn coached the Cape Cod League’s Brewster Whitecaps to its first-ever championship in the summer of 2000.
Lawn went on to spend 10 seasons at Cal (1991-00), seven at USC (2001-07) and two more at Nevada (1989-90, 2014-15). Additionally, Lawn spent part of the 2013 season as Director of Player Development at Cal State Fullerton. He made his way to Tucson and the Wildcats in 2015. From 2007-11, Lawn was the head coach at Servite High School in Anaheim, Calif.