Ehling served as the interim head coach through most of the 2010 season, a role he earned after spending three seasons as an assistant coach for the Jets. He has compiled a 210-221 record overall since taking over 13 games into the 2010 season, including a 129-140 record in Heartland Conference play.
In Ehling’s nine years at the helm, Newman has had 30 All-Heartland Conference selections, including nine first-team honorees, and 16 conference all-defensive team members. He has also coached eight all-region players, 12 CoSIDA Academic All-District selections, and five CoSIDA Academic All-Americans in Jarrod Flax (2015), Aaron Mack (2017, 2018), Daniel Jahnke (2018) and Paul Rupnik (2019).
The 2017 season saw the Jets go on a run late, winning nine of 11 games during one stretch to enter the final weekend with a shot at the conference postseason in a tight battle between five teams for four playoff spots.
Under Ehling’s tutelage, Tyler Bugner was named an All-American after both the 2015 and 2016 seasons, picked up Heartland Conference Freshman of the Year in 2014 and the league’s Player of the Year award in 2016. The outfielder was selected in the 21st round of the 2016 MLB First-Year Player Draft by the Colorado Rockies, and made his professional debut in June of that year, firsts since 1995 for the Newman program.
In 2012, Ehling led his team to the Heartland postseason tournament for the first time in school history, winning the first postseason game the program played as an NCAA school. The Jets also reached the Heartland Conference Tournament in 2014, and have a 2-4 mark under Ehling in postseason play. Ehling’s teams have also had success in the classroom, with Newman baseball earning 154 Academic All-Conference selections.
Ehling has also had success as a summer baseball coach, working with the Hutchinson Monarchs, Park City Rangers and Newton Rebels of the Walter Johnson League, as well as the Derby Twins of the Jayhawk League. Ehling was a part of Newton’s seventh-place finish in the National Baseball Congress World Series in 2006.
Ehling finished his college playing career at Newman as a member of the Jets’ MCAC championship team in 2006. Prior to Newman, he played one season at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, helping the Swedes to a KCAC championship and earning an All-KCAC nod. He began his college career playing two seasons at Butler County Community College in El Dorado, Kansas.Â
Ehling graduated from Newman in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, and again in 2012 with his master's degree in business administration. Ehling and his wife, Jenni, have two daughters, Sophie and Cora, and two son, Morris and George.
