SUNY Oneonta Director of Athletics, Tracey Ranieri, announced that
Benjamin Grimm has been named the interim baseball coach effective
immediately. Grimm will assume the duties as head coach for
the 2012 season.
Grimm comes to Oneonta after serving most recently as the assistant
coach at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. His
responsibilities were as the primary pitching coach, recruiting
coordinator, camps coordinator, strength and conditioning
coordinator and fundraising contact. In his first year as
pitching coach with the Continentals, the team's ERA dropped three
full runs from the previous season while the squad enjoyed its
longest winning streak in over six years. In addition, he
started a Fall Prospects Clinic and Mid-Winter Baseball Clinic.
Grimm is the President and head coach of the Sherrill Silversmiths
of the New York Collegiate Baseball League where he has built a
professional baseball franchise from the ground up. He is in
charge of all facets of the organization, which operates during the
summer months with rosters made up of collegiate baseball players
from around the country at all levels. In 2009, Grimm started
a not-for-profit organization, the Sherrill Athletic Club, Inc.,
which is set up to run the Silversmiths. In 2009, he led the
squad to a winning season, while in 2010, he guided the team to a
league runner-up finish while having its first player sign a major
league contract with the Atlanta Braves.
From 2007-10, Grimm served as the assistant baseball coach at NCAA
Div. II Davis & Elkins College. During his tenure as the
pitching coach, the team increased its win total from nine to 25
and earned a ranking of No. 8 in the 2010 NCBWA Atlantic Region
poll. The pitching staff also improved its ERA by a total of
3.30 runs in the seasons he was there.
Prior to Davis & Elkins, Grimm served as the assistant baseball
coach at Cazenovia College for the spring of 2007 working with the
pitching staff of the Wildcats. While there, he coached one
All-North East Athletic Conference pitcher.
Collegiately, Grimm played two seasons at Onondaga Community
College before finishing his career at Concord University in
Athens, WV. During Grimm's final season at Concord, the
Mountain Lions finished 25-23 and made a run to the championship
game of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletics
Conference. In 20 appearances, he was 4-3 with 38 strikeouts
in 39.2 innings pitched.
In 2004, Grimm received an Associates Degree from Onondaga
Community College in Recreation Leadership. In 2006, he
received his Bachelors Degree in Recreation and Tourism from
Concord and, in 2010; he completed a Masters Degree in Athletic
Coaching Education from West Virginia University.
Oneonta finished last season with an overall record 21-17 while
advancing to the second day of the SUNYAC tournament.
January 23, 2012
Grimm to lead Oneonta
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