Coach Beede Podcast

Coach Mejia came to Northern Essex as the Knights as head coach in the 2013 season. Since his arrival the program has seen record breaking accomplishments 8 New England Regional Championships, 7 District Championships, 7 NJCAA College World Series Appearances.   For these accomplishments Coach Mejia has been named the New England Regional Coach of the Year 8 times and the American Baseball Coaches Association NJCAA III Northeast Regional Coach of the Year 7 times.

In Coach Mejia’s ten full seasons an impressive 93 student athletes have gone on to play at four-year Universities/Colleges. Since 2013 the Knights have produced 21 NJCAA All-Americans and 65 All-New England players.

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Coach Moffitt is one of the nation’s premier strength and conditioning coaches. The teams he coached were among the most dominant and talented in college sports history.

In a career spanning 34 years, Moffitt has been the recipient of five National Coach of the Year awards. His teams have also been part of:

For 26 consecutive years, all of Moffitt’s teams—between LSU, Tennessee, and Miami—made it to a bowl game. This is a feat that may never be duplicated.

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Eric Cirella was officially named the fifth head coach in the history of the Salve Regina baseball program in June 2013, returning to his alma mater and replacing his father, Steve, who stayed on staff as an assistant coach until 2017, after a 14-year tenure as head coach of the Seahawks.  Cirella is entering his tenth season as Salve Regina's head coach.

In nine seasons, Cirella's record stands at 256-124-6. Cirella has guided the Seahawks to Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) championships in four of the last seven seasons (2016, 2017, 2019, 2021) and NCAA appearances in six of seven (2022 & 2023 NCAA At-Large) including most single-season wins ever in the history of the program this past year (39-10-1; finishing the season ranked #15). 

The 2023 Seahawks won more games than any team in program history (39-10-1) and were also the #1 seed in the Dallas, PA NCAA Regional for the first time in program history.  Cirella was named CCC Coach of the Year.

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Aoki joined Richmond in June 2023, bringing more than 20 years of head coaching experience and over 500 career wins to the Spiders. 
He came to UR from Morehead State, where in 2023 he guided the Eagles to a 36-20 record and the outright Ohio Valley Conference regular title, the first for the program since 1979. Morehead State’s 36 wins were tied for fourth-most in school history and marked the third straight year the Eagles increased their win total from the previous season.
 
Aoki served as the head coach at Notre Dame for nine seasons from from 2010-19, when he oversaw the program’s transition from the Big East to the Atlantic Coast Conference. In their final Big East season in 2013, Aoki guided Notre Dame to a 34-24 record and a runner-up finish in the Big East Tournament. In the program’s second ACC season in 2015, the Irish finished 37-23 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2006.
 
Aoki spent seven seasons at Boston College as both an assistant and head coach, leading BC to some of the most successful seasons in program history. In 2009 — the third of Aoki's four seasons as head coach — the Eagles won 34 games and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1967. From 2004 to 2006, Aoki served as BC's pitching coach. He helped BC to a program-record 37 wins in 2005 and had six Eagles pitchers drafted by MLB clubs.

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Grant Achilles is in his 11th year, 10th season, as the head coach of Brown Baseball in 2024.
 
Achilles spent two seasons as an assistant coach for the Bears before taking over the head coaching duties midway through the 2014 season. He was named the program’s 17th head coach since 1900 on June 23, 2014, while the program was founded in 1863.
The 2023 season saw three Bears earn All-Ivy honors, with freshman Mika Petersen and outfielder Derian Morphew both earning First Team accolades. Petersen led all Ivy Leaguers with a .424 batting average in league play, and rank fourth overall at .353. Pitcher Jack Seppings earned Second Team honors while also being named ot the taxi/reserve squad for Great Britain for the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Achilles also welcomed to the program and coached Olivia Pichardo, the first female to make an NCAA Division I baseball roster.

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In his first season as Lopes head coach in 2023, Wallis helped lead the Lopes to a WAC Regular-Season Championship with a 22-7 mark in conference action. He was named the WAC Coach of the Year, the first rookie head coach in conference history to win the award. The Lopes began conference action with a 9-7 mark but finished with 13 consecutive WAC wins to claim the title on the regular season's final day.

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On July 1, 2019, Robert Woodard returned home to the Queen City as the fifth Head Coach of the Charlotte 49ers Baseball program. He does so coming off of being an assistant coach at his alma mater, North Carolina, for three seasons. Woodard, a Charlotte native, has also served as pitching coach at UNCW and Virginia Tech.

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One of the Deans of the coaching fraternity in the Southland Conference, Justin Hill enters 11th season at the helm of the McNeese Cowboys in 2024. He recently had a three-peat in SLC championship seasons from 2019-21, claiming four Southland titles in six seasons.

During the 2023 campaign, Hill recorded his 300th victory on May 23 one season removed from setting the program record in all-time victories for a Cowboy skipper, surpassing Tony Robichaux's former mark of 263 set on May 20, 2022. The 300-win milestone came against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the play-in game of the 2023 Southland Conference Tournament, rising 4-0 above the Islanders.

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Washington State University named Nathan Choate as the 18th head baseball coach in program history, Director of Athletics Patrick Chun announced June 23.
Choate arrives at WSU after leading Loyola Marymount to a West Coast Conference title this past season while guiding the Lions to new heights in his four seasons leading the program. Choate was named the 2023 WCC Coach of the Year.

We discuss Washington state and his future within the PAC 12. We discussed the future of the PAC 12 and the direction that the conference is heading. We discuss Pullman Washington, and what makes Washington state an attractive university for potential student athletes.

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Shank arrives back in Manchester following a pair of Division III head coaching stints, most recently at Eastern Nazarene College. Shank guided the Lions to a 62-45-1 (.579) record over four seasons, including the pandemic-shortened 2020 and 2021 campaigns. Shank, who won 20 games in each of his two full seasons, led ENC to a 26-14 mark and a spot in the New England College Conference (NECC) championship game in 2023. The 26 wins set a new single-season program record, while it was the first time ever the Lions had advanced to the conference title game. 

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