As one of the winningest coaches in Pacific baseball history, Quincey Noble is being inducted into the Stockton Athletic Hall of Fame as a part of the 2022 induction class. 
 
Noble was the Head Coach at Pacific for 14 seasons from 1990 until the 2003 season and led the program to 353 wins in one of the best baseball conferences in the country. When Noble moved on from Pacific, he was one of six Big West Coaches to record 300 wins and only the second Pacific coach to reach that milestone. Noble led the Tigers to two 30-win seasons, including a record 36-win season in 1994. During his tenure, over 70 Tigers were drafted into professional baseball. 
 
"It was arguably in the best baseball conference in the country at the time," said Noble about the Pacific baseball program. "It was the Big West when Fullerton and Long Beach were at their best. If you were one of the top four teams in the conference, you were one of the best teams in the country. Augie Garrido was at Fullerton, and Dave Snow was at Long Beach. Everything was an absolute dogfight. It was probably closest to what we see in the SEC now." 
 
In his first year at Pacific, the team finished 14-40. Four years later, Noble guided the team to a 36-18 and put Pacific in contention to go to the College World Series. "One power index had us at 39th in the country, but we did not go (to the CWS) because Long Beach, Fullerton and Nevada all had 40 wins," continued Noble. 
 
Noble remembers his time at Pacific fondly, saying that all the coaches were tight-knit, like a family. "(John) Dunning was there," recalls Noble. "John Tanner, who was the water polo guru, was there. Hugh Jackson was with the football team. It was a welcoming place to work." 
 
After Pacific, Noble accepted the role of Athletic Director at McNair High School, where he coached the varsity boy's baseball team. He was a vital part of growing the baseball program, as there was no system to help develop players before they reached the high school level. Many of the players Noble coached had minimal baseball experience. 
 
Despite the difficulties, Noble turned the program around, leading them to its first-ever playoff win, a 4-3 walk-off win against Turlock-Pitman in the Sac-Joaquin Sectional Division I South Playoff. 
 
The key to Noble's eventual success at McNair was creating a little league team that could feed into the high school. "One of the better coaching things I have ever done is I went and found the best seventh graders there were and put them all together and worked with them for 4-6 years," said Noble. "At one point, we were one of the better teams in the section, and we did not even have a Little League that fostered it. My main mission when I left Pacific was to try and enhance opportunities for kids in the area with baseball." 
 
As an athletic director, Noble has chaired wrestling, soccer and water polo committees, among other sports at the prep level. 
"It is hard to encapsulate 14 years into one particular moment," said Noble when asked about his favorite memory. "There were a lot of different moments at Pacific. The moment I got appointed head coach at Pacific because I was the youngest DI Head Coach in America. My life ambition was to be in that spot, and I felt very fortunate to be able to be the youngest baseball coach in the best baseball conference at the time. If a person looks at the total scope of everything I was given, some of it has been lost to history, but it is not a bad body of work." 
 
"I would say other than being appointed the Head Coach, it was when all my work came to fruition," continued Noble. "I recruited every day of my life for three years. It cost a lot, but in '94, when we had the longest winning streak in the nation, we swept UNLV. We were in USA Today, and there was a lot of hype with that team." 
 
Noble will be inducted into the Stockton Athletic Hall of Fame on November 16, 2022, along with five other inductees.