Muhlenberg College Athletics

Summary
• Career record through 2025 season: 197-247-2 (.444) in 13 seasons
• Second-winningest coach in Muhlenberg baseball history 
• Three Centennial Conference playoffs berths
• Coached first All-American in program history
• Coached 30 All-Centennial Conference selections, two CC rookies of the year and two CC scholar-athletes of the year
• Teams have posted the top four fielding percentages in program history, all since 2017
• Coached program's all-time leaders in hits, doubles, extra-base hits, fielding percentage, assists, saves and strikeouts

Coaching Highlights
2025 Record 19-20
• 10-win improvement was the second-best in program history
• Mules were in contention for a playoff spot on the final day of the season
• Team averaged 7.51 runs per game, most since 2010
• Win against nationally ranked Gettysburg
• First All-American in program history
• Three all-region selections and two All-Centennial Conference first-team picks
2024 Record 9-30
• Mules set Division III record for walks in a game
2023 Record 16-22-1
• Tied Haverford for final playoff spot after being picked eighth in Centennial Conference preseason poll
• Set program record with six All-CC selections and had program's first Gold Glove of the Year
• Placed two position players on the All-CC first team for the first time since 2003
• Centennial Conference Gold Glove and Scholar-Athlete of the Year
2022 Record 16-21
• Coached first Mule pitcher to make D3baseball.com all-region team
• Won Gallaudet Bison Classic
2021 Record 7-9
2020 Record 6-6
2019 Record 20-19
• Earned second straight playoff berth thanks to a season sweep of Swarthmore, at the time ranked ninth in Division III
• Team set school records for doubles, extra-base hits and fielding percentage in a season
2018 Record 19-20
• Led a team that was picked eighth in the CC preseason poll to a third-place finish and a playoff berth
• Staff set school record for batters struck out in a season and led the CC in strikeouts per nine innings
• Won Gallaudet Bison Classic
• Centennial Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• Earned 100th career win with 8-1 defeat of Washington College in second game of Senior Day doubleheader
2017 Record 16-21
2016 Record 18-20
• Went 5-1 against teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament, ending season with doubleheader sweep of nationally ranked Johns Hopkins
• Centennial Conference rookie of the year
2015 Record 14-19
• Ranked second in the Centennial Conference in home runs
2014 Record 17-20
• Finished third in Centennial Conference two years after team finished in last place
• First CC playoff berth in six years
• Defeated future professional pitcher for first postseason win in 11 years
• Ranked second in the CC in double plays turned
• Centennial Conference rookie of the year
2013 Record 20-20
• Led the Centennial Conference in doubles per game
• Second player in program history to make all-region first team
• Scored in double figures and allowed two runs or fewer in three straight games for the first time in program history

Coaching Career
• 2010-12 Assistant coach at Davidson University
     > coached two All-Southern Conference freshman performers and two NCAA Division I Freshman All-Americans
• 2008-09 Assistant coach at Belmont Abbey College
     > 41 wins in 2008 and NCAA Division II College World Series appearance in 2009 
• 2006-07 Assistant coach at Guilford College
• 2003-05 Assistant coach at Franklin & Marshall College
     > Helped 2005 team to Centennial Conference championship

Personal
Married to Shannon Gross and has two young children