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Michael Avalon is entering his seventh season as head baseball coach at Pearl River Community College in 2023. Avalon and his Wildcats had an unbelievable 2022 campaign, capturing the baseball program's first NJCAA Division II National Championship. Pearl River also captured a second straight MACCC Championship along with the Region 23 Title. The Wildcats finished the year with a 45-11 record. Aft...

Chris Morris talks about what makes Husson special and what kind of players he's looking for.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Morris has served as the head coach of the Husson baseball program since August 2019 and has led the eagles to back-to-back North Atlantic Conference East Division and tournament championships along with back-to-back NCAA regional appearances. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

With over 30 years of coaching experience, Coach Tim Neiman has instilled the same convictions and passion into his 2 sons. Both are currently head coaches.  We discuss what makes a great program, coach and recruit.  The legacy that Tim has established is obvious with their commitment to bringing great baseball to the programs they head.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/po...

Tom Cantrell is returning for his 24th season at the helm of the University of North Georgia baseball program. Since relaunching the baseball program from the ground up in 2000, Cantrell has had much success sporting a record of 793-472 (.626). In his 24 seasons at North Georgia, Cantrell’s clubs have won at least 30 games an impressive 19 times, including each of the last seven complete seasons,...

Tom Cantrell is returning for his 24th season at the helm of the University of North Georgia baseball program. Since relaunching the baseball program from the ground up in 2000, Cantrell has had much success sporting a record of 793-472 (.626). In his 24 seasons at North Georgia, Cantrell’s clubs have won at least 30 games an impressive 19 times, including each of the last seven complete seasons,...

Thompson guided the Hoyas into a historic 2022 season that featured the program's first BIG EAST Baseball Championship appearance since 2018, the first BIG EAST Freshman of the Year Owen Carapellotti and the first BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the year following a six-win campaign in 2021. Three Hoyas earned all-conference recognition with Nolan McCarthy earning a unanimous selection to the league's...

Tobin was born and raised in the Greenwich Village Section of New York City. Tobin has served in many roles in scholastic and collegiate sports. He began his coaching career in the Hamptons League as a volunteer assistant for the Sag Harbor Whalers. Since then, he has served as an assistant coach for St. Joseph's College Brooklyn, University of Connecticut Avery Point and Saint Peter's College. Cu...

Nick Strong comes to Florida National from Wiley College where he was instrumental in bringing in the largest recruiting class in program history. Through the recruiting trail, Strong helped bring in over 45 student-athletes to the Wildcat program. For the fall season, he was the Pitching Coach & Recruiting Coordinator. During the summer, Coach Strong coached in the Nationally Ranked Summer progra...

In the Summer of 2021, the University of St. Thomas Athletic Department named David Wood as the new Head Baseball Coach. Wood will lead the Celts into their second full season since being reintroduced in 2020 after a 51-year hiatus Wood, who was the Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at St. Edward's University for 10 years, provides a wealth of knowledge and experience for the UST Baseball...

Brooks Repking will begin his first year as Head Coach after one season of being Associate Head Coach with the Polars in 2021-2022. This will mark his fourth year on the coaching staff. In Repking's year as Associate Head Coach, the Polars broke 42 school records including the programs first ever UMAC Conference Championship. They all also finished with the best record in school history as well as...

Brian August begins his 18th year as head coach of the Wildcats in 2022. A graduate of the University of Delaware, where he was a standout baseball player, August was the assistant baseball coach, assistant athletic director, and building and grounds supervisor at Cecil County Community College prior to coming to Wilmington University. In 2019, he led a resurgent Wilmington team to a 40-18 overall...

Brandt comes to Presentation from Finlandia University, where he led the Lions for five seasons. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doctors told him he wouldn't live one month past emergency brain surgery as a teenager. But here he is. The baseball coach's survival story is nothing short of a miracle. Coach Graves is focused on developing players at the highest level.  Not only in the classroom but on the field. Many of his former players are playing at the highest level of college baseball.  --- Support this podcast: https://...

Calliari has coached at every collegiate level, after playing college baseball at DII Lock Haven University. He started his coaching career in 1996 as an assistant at DI Penn State University where his responsibilities included hitters/infielders and gameday promotions. Penn State went on to win it's first and only BIG Ten Championship that year.  In his first 4 years with the baseball program, PS...

Jason Rathbun enters his first season as Bonnies Baseball head coach in 2023 after an incredible run at the junior college level. Rathbun turned Herkimer Community College baseball into one of the most successful and consistent junior college programs in the country during his 17 years at the helm, moving to Bona's after winning the 2022 national championship. In Rathbun's time at Herkimer, he gui...

Bryan Torresani enters his seventh season as the Head Baseball Coach at Arcadia in 2023.  In six seasons, Torresani holds an overall record of 155-74 (.677) and a conference record of 81-31 (.723). Torresani's 155 wins currently rank second on the program's all-time wins list. Torresani's teams have reached the conference tournament every season, including winning the conference in 2017, 2018, and...

Rob Hardy was named Rice Baseball's Director of Player Development in December of 2021 and then joined Jose Cruz Jr.'s staff in 2022 as an assistant coach.  Hardy came to Rice from Siena College in Albany, New York where he served as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator since 2020. Siena's pitching staff was a key factor in the Saints reaching the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tourna...

Baltimore native Bruce Cameron returns for his 14th season as the top assistant on Kevin Anderson's staff. Cameron came to Shenandoah University in July 2008 after spending 11 years as an assistant coach at West Virginia University. He was promoted to associate head coach in August, 2019. The final nine years of his experience in Morgantown came as the Mountaineers top assistant. During that 11-ye...

A well-respected figure around the game, Wheeler has been recognized by his peers as the top recruiting coordinator in the Atlantic 10 in a survey conducted by D1Baseball.com.  The Hawks have appeared in two Atlantic 10 postseasons during his time in the Crimson and Gray, winning 20 games or more in each of his full seasons at SJU. While working with the Hawk hitters, Wheeler has helped guide a nu...

The Sports Doctor is in! Dr. Robert A Weil, Sports Podiatrist, specializes in orthotics that improve alignment, stability, balance & performance. He has practiced podiatry & sports medicine for over 30 years in the Aurora- Naperville area and was recently inducted into the prestigious 2019 National Fitness Hall Of Fame. Dr. Bob has treated many of the world’s premier athletes from all types of spo...

Coach Bacon is a 2012 graduate of Avila University in Missouri where he finished his playing career with a 20-6 pitching record, was a two-time all-conference honoree, and was inducted into the Avila University Sports Hall of Fame in 2017 with the 2012 team. He started his collegiate career at Harding University (Arkansas). Bacon holds a bachelor’s degree from Avila University and a master’s degre...

Scott Bickel was named head baseball coach to lead the Crimson Pride in their inaugural season in the Spring of 2023. Bickel is a former Indiana All-State Pitcher from Huntington, Indiana.  He went on to play collegiately for the University of Saint Francis (IN).  In 2011, he graduated with a degree in Secondary Education for Mathematics and Mild Intervention.  In December of 2021, he earned his M...

Acosta has over 30 years' coaching experience to the position and most recently has been an assistant coach at Southeastern Community College in Whiteville, North Carolina.  He is not a stranger to Iowa Lakes as he served as assistant baseball coach at Iowa Lakes from 2006-2010.  His coaching experience covers a wide range.  He coached all levels of baseball:  youth organizations, high school, col...

The 2023 baseball season will be Coach Bennett’s 21st season at the helm. His overall record at FCC is 719-286. On April 6th, 2022, Bennett reached a significant coaching milestone as he earned his 700th career win. On May 5, 2022, Bennett coached his 1000th game as a Head Coach in the college ranks. Coach Bennett has led the Cougars to the Region XX Tournament 19 times, including 12 trips to the...