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John Poss enters his fifth season as the head coach of the baseball program in 2022. Poss brings an extensive baseball background to Wilson, both as a professional player and as a successful coach. Since 2012, he has led the St. Mary’s Catholic High School program in Annapolis, Maryland to a 123-28 record while grooming 22 student-athletes that would go on to compete at the collegiate level. Prior...

Deron "Doc" Neiman enters his third year as head baseball coach in 2022. He previously served as the interim head coach during the 2020 season after having spent the previous year as a volunteer assistant coach. Prior to coming to Clarion, Neiman spent time at Erskine College where he served as a Volunteer Assistant Coach, Head Junior Varsity Coach and Camp Coordinator, while also instructing catc...

Ryan Palmer was born and raised in Rumford, Maine. Ryan attended CMCC where he played 2 years of baseball and made the all conference team in 2004.  Ryan was a member of the 2004 team that qualified for Nationals in Tampa, FL. Ryan was chosen as a member of the CMCC all-decade team (2000-2010).  Ryan brings to the team over 10 years of coaching experience at the high school level, (7 years as a he...

Winner of 400+ games at the college level, Coach Exeter has decided to hang up the "cleats" and pursue a career in the private sector. Focusing on player development, Exeter will continue to work across the pond with the organization, Old World Baseball.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

CJ Mooney was selected to be the MCC Head Baseball Coach prior to the start of the 2014 Baseball Season. The 2022 season was a historic one for the Middlesex College Baseball team as five single season program records were broken, including the record for most wins in a season. The 2022 Colts won 37 games, six more than the previous record of 31 which had stood for over 20 years. The Colts earned...

The 2023 baseball season is Rob Cooper’s 10th as head coach of the Nittany Lion baseball program. Cooper was selected as the 14th head baseball coach in Penn State history on August 9, 2013. Not shy about stating his ultimate goal of returning Penn State to Omaha in June, the Lions have made significant strides under his leadership. Under his tutelage, 12 players have been drafted and 13 total hav...

Kaufman began his coaching career in 2015 following a four-year playing career at NCAA Division II California University of Pennsylvania. In addition to serving as team captain for the Vulcans, Kaufman was also a three-time Pennsylvania State Athletics Conference All-Academic selection and holds the school record for career throw-out percentage and caught stealing. --- Support this podcast: https:...

When it comes to outfield play, Andre Butler is one of the best in the coaching profession at developing high-level outfielders.  With 11  years of coaching experience, he’s never been more passionate about the outfield position than now.  Dating back to 2012, Coach Butler noticed the lack of outfield attention given to high school and collegiate players.  Since then he has created an aggressive m...

Matt Midkiff is entering his ninth season as the head baseball coach at Swarthmore in 2021. During his tenure, Midkiff has led the Garnet to a 171-114-1 record with seven winning seasons.  Midkiff, formerly an assistant baseball coach at Swarthmore, returned to the college after serving as the head baseball coach at Eastern University from 2009 to 2012. A native of Brandon, Florida, Midkiff played...

Alex Guerra is Radford Baseball's seventh head coach in program history. In his seven years on Marlin Ikenberry's staff at JMU, Guerra guided the Dukes through a complete rebuild which saw them produce strong results on the diamond and a long list of standout players. Most recently, Guerra helped the 2022 JMU squad to a 27-26 overall record with 12 wins in the Colonial Athletic Association, their...

Coach Verlin joins Coach Hoover's staff after spending the last two seasons as as an Assistant Coach at Bowling Green State University.  In his time with BGSU, Coach Verlin helped the Falcons to 38 wins, including the programs first 20 win season in six years in 2021.  Working primarily with the Falcon catchers, Coach Verlin helped the team to the second best caught stealing percentage in the Mid-...

Since 1994, Hope College has won nine Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) championships and appeared in the NCAA Division III tournament four times under coach Stu Fritz. He has guided the Flying Dutchmen to MIAA Championships in 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2013. The nine league championships places Stuart in a tie for the most MIAA baseball titles by a coac...

Jerry Oakes joined the Phoenix coaching staff in September 2020 after spending eight seasons as the pitching coach at the University of Pittsburgh. He enters his second year as the team's pitching coach in 2021-22. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not only was Posey on-hand for the rebuilding of the EMU baseball program that happened under Spotts, he played an active role. Posey was a senior on the 2014 team, helping to lead the Royals to just their third 20-win season in program history. Then in 2015, in his first season on the coaching staff, EMU tied the program record with 10 ODAC wins and broke a 12-year drought with a trip to the ODAC...

Cory Beddick named Gettysburg College's next head baseball coach, in July, 2022. Beddick becomes just the sixth skipper to lead the Bullets' baseball program since 1913, returning to his alma mater to take over the program in which he played under John Campo. Campo retired at the end of the season after 36 years as head coach. "I am excited to welcome Cory back to Gettysburg," Mattia said. "It was...

Eric Folmar will enter his third season as head coach in 2022 In his first full season in spring of 2021, Folmar guided the Golden Bears to 17 wins overall and 11 in the PSAC, the most since 2018. KU also had its first All-PSAC selections since that year, as Collin Bishop earned First Team and Gavin Moretski was tabbed Second Team. In a shortened first season at the helm in 2020, Folmar led the Go...

Kevin Burdick enters his third season as the head coach of the Pride in 2023 and his eighth season overall with the program. He has previously worked as the hitting coach and the mental skills coach. During his tenure, the Pride have been to seven conference tournaments and one NCAA regional by capturing the MAC Commonwealth championship in 2016. In his two years as head coach, Burdick has coached...

Millersville alum Jon Shehan has built the Marauder baseball program into a contender at the conference, regional and national levels. In 15 seasons, Millersville has won nine PSAC Eastern Division Championships, two PSAC Championships, two NCAA Atlantic Regional titles, and totaled five 40-win seasons and 10 NCAA Tournament appearances. The Marauders have reached nine consecutive NCAA regionals,...

Coach Bailey recently finished a 42-year coaching and teaching career (seventeen in high school and twenty-five in college). From being the Head Coach at West Linn High School and participating in the 1995 State Championship Game, to winning National Championships in 2004 as Head Coach at George Fox University, and in 2018 as Associate Head Coach at Oregon State University, Coach Bailey is a man o...

The father-son combination is rare amongst college coaching staffs, but the elder Williams has been a part of the staff since head coach Williams' arrival in the fall of 2019. He spent a number of years in professional and collegiate baseball, most recently as an assistant at UMBC from 2013-2018 where he helped coach the Retriever infielders and hitters, on their way to a 2017 America East Confere...

For Heath "Smoke" Stover, a name synonymous with Lock Haven University baseball, the 2023 season will mark his sixth as the head coach. Stover is a 1997 graduate of LHU, earning a bachelor's degree in health and physical education. In 2009, he earned his master's in teaching and learning. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about yo...

Jake Marinelli was hired in the summer of 2022 to serve as the ninth Head Baseball Coach in Keuka College history. Jake Marinelli comes to Keuka College following a one-year stint as an assistant coach at Youngstown State University. With the Penguins assisted with the daily practice plans, worked with the hitters, and oversaw all catcher activities. Marinelli also led all aspects of the Youngstow...

Tom Fiala '14 was named the fifteenth head coach in Washington College baseball history, it was announced on August 2, 2022. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coach Austin and I talk about character, commitment and accountability.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over his tenure, Coach Gage coached a total of nine NECC All-Conference performers, while a pair of players went on to play professionally.  In the classroom, Gage's program found success with three players being named to the NECC Academic All-Conference Team. The 2016 and 2017 squads each posted over a 3.0 GPA after the 2013 team also finished the year with a team GPA over 3.0. In 2017 he took ov...