Anthony Del Prete (right)
will replace Cary McConnell (left) as head coach for the 2015
season for the Rams. Suffolk athletics photo |
BOSTON, Ma. – Anthony Del Prete has been named Head Baseball Coach at Suffolk University for the 2015 season. Del Prete will also serve as the department’s Associate Director of Athletics.
Del Prete will replace Cary McConnell, who relinquished the role
as he was named the University’s Director of Athletics. He
becomes just the sixth baseball coach in the program’s sixty
eight year history.
Del Prete has served as an assistant coach at Suffolk for the past
10 seasons. In 2014 he was promoted to Associate Head Coach as
Suffolk won their program’s second Eastern College Athletic
Conference (ECAC) Division-III New England Championship. Del Prete
also served as an assistant in 2005 and 2009, seasons in which
Suffolk advanced to two of the program’s four NCAA Tournament
appearances with Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC)
championships.
He takes over the program of his alma mater in which he graduated
in 2004. In four seasons on the mound at Suffolk he recorded a
21-11 overall record helping guide the Rams to a 2002 NCAA
Tournament appearance in which he was named Great Northeast
Athletic Conference (GNAC) Tournament MVP, the conference Pitcher
of the Year and an New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association
(NEIBA) All-Region selection. He pitched for the Orleans Cardinals
of the Cape Cod Baseball League in the summer of 2002 and served as
closer for the Columbus All-Americans of the Great Lakes Summer
League during their championship season in 2003. After his time at
Suffolk, Del Prete had a brief stint with the North Shore Spirit of
the independent CanAm League. In 2005, he signed with the
Evansville Otters of the Frontier League. Del Prete spent 3 seasons
playing professionally in Evansville (IN) helping the Otters win
their franchise’s first and only league championship in 2006.
He is ninth all-time in appearances (74) for the franchise. Del
Prete has also travelled overseas to play as he spent the winter of
2005 in Perth, Western Australia pitching for the Melville Braves
of the Western Australia State League with stops in Antwerp,
Belgium (2002) and Cuba (2011) in between.
Following his playing career, Del Prete completed his
Master’s Degree in Administration of Higher Education at
Suffolk where he served as the department’s graduate
assistant.
Since 2008, Del Prete has served as the institution’s Sports
Information Director. He has overseen all media relations and
publicity of the athletics programs while maintaining the
department’s website. He also served as an advisory member
for the institution’s athletic review committee in 2014.
Alongside his baseball responsibilities, Del Prete will also serve
as the department’s Associate Director of Athletics. He will
oversee the marketing and promotion of the athletics programs,
serve as the department’s compliance and recruiting
coordinator and also handle scheduling for the varsity
intercollegiate men’s sports teams.
Del Prete is a native of East Boston in which he still currently
resides.