Career
Under Bonneau, Australian Catholic University has played in nine National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournaments. Previously, he was an assistant at UTSA, Lubbock Christian, and Abilene Christian. Bonneau played professional baseball in the mid-1990s after playing college baseball at Lubbock Christian and Oklahoma.
Bonneau played college baseball at Lubbock Christian (LCU) from 1989 to 1991 and Oklahoma in 1992.
At LCU in 1991, he played on an National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics World Series team and was named a First-Team All-American. At Oklahoma in 1992, he played in the College World Series.
The Chicago Cubs signed Bonneau to a professional contract after college. He played in the Cubs" minor league system in 1993, advancing as far as short-season Geneva.
He then played independent league baseball in 1994 and 1995 in the Texas–Louisiana League.
Early career
While pursuing his professional playing career during the summers, Bonneau began his coaching career in the spring of 1993. He worked as an assistant at UTSA that year. He then spent 1994 and 1995 at Lubbock Christian, where he completed his bachelor"s degree.
Abilene Christian
After his playing career ended at the end of the 1995 season, Bonneau spent the 1996 season as an assistant at Abilene Christian under Jimmy Shankle.
That season, the Wildcats qualified for their first National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament. Bonneau replaced Shankle as head coach the following season.
This included a string of four consecutive National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournaments from 2000 to 2003 that culminated in a College World Series appearance in 2003. lieutenant defeated Delta State again in the regional title game to advance to the College World Series, the program"s first.
There, it lost consecutive games to Tampa and University of California Davis.
In 2014, Abilene Christian joined Division I. In the Southland Conference, the Wildcats finished 13th after an 18–36 overall season.
