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, and amassed 40 or more wins six times, including a program best 57 wins in 2005. In that span, North Georgia has won 10 separate championships with the most recent being the 2019 Peach Belt Conference Regular Season Championship, the program’s third Peach Belt regular season championship in the last six years.

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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 first team while Ethan Stern and Jake Hyde also picked up ABCA / Rawlings All-East Region Team honors on top of their respective first and second team All-BIG EAST selections. Thompson's 2022 team broke the program records for wins (32), home runs (98), total bases (925) and end of season RPI (137) while setting second-best marks in win percentage (.571), runs (400), RBIs (367) and slugging percentage (.480). He also mentored new single-season home run leaders Hyde (19) and Ubaldo Lopez (19) as well as freshman Carapellotti, who garnered Second Team All-America status by D1Baseball.com in his first season with the Hoyas.

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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.

Besides coaching, Coach Tobin has created @buncommitted on Twitter and has amassed over 40K followers. His main objective is to help players get noticed. We have a lot in common! 

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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 program Houston Banditos organization.

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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 program. While at St. Edward's, he played an integral role in the Hilltoppers' success, which featured six Heartland Conference Championships, One South-Central Regional Championship, Seven NCAA Regional appearances, and a third place finish in the 2013 NCAA DII World Series.

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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 the best conference finish in school history. Repking has served as the baseball recruiting coordinator since 2019.

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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 record, their most wins since the 2013 season. They won the CACC Tournament for the second year in a row, now totaling eight CACC Tournament Championships since 2007. The team advanced to the NCAA East Region 1 Tournament, coming back to play in the Championship round against NYIT.

The Wildcats became the first Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference baseball team to ever win the NCAA Division II East Regional Tournament and advance to the NCAA Division II National Championships in 2015. August led the Wildcats to a 37-15 overall record in 2015, beating 20th ranked Southern New Hampshire, Stonehill, No. 1/3 Franklin Pierce, and St. Thomas Aquinas to capture their first ever regional championship.

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Brandt comes to Presentation from Finlandia University, where he led the Lions for five seasons.

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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. 

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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, PSD Baseball won 4 regular season titles, 2 Conference tournament titles, and back-to-back USCAA National Championships. His 4-year record starting from scratch is 110-51. Coach Tom Calliari has received "Coach of the Year" award 4 straight seasons from the PSUAC.

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