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  Greg DiCenzo

Greg DiCenzo

Player Profile

Position:
Head Coach

Experience:
Third Season

Alma Mater:
St. Lawrence, 1998

Recently completing his second season as the 18th head coach for the College of the Holy Cross, Greg DiCenzo has continued to bring the baseball program to new heights.

In his first season at Holy Cross, DiCenzo was named the 2008 Patriot League Coach of the Year as the Crusaders qualified for the Patriot League Tournament for the first time since 2001 and for the third time in the program's history. He became only the second coach to ever be named the league's coach of the year in his first season. Holy Cross had a 21-28 overall record (11-9 in Patriot League play) marking the first 20-win season since 1980. Also for the first time in school history a Holy Cross pitcher was named the Patriot League Pitcher of the Year as Matt Shapiro earned the honor.

In DiCenzo's second season at the helm, Holy Cross again continued its trend of "firsts" in the program. The Crusader ball club was able to qualify for the Patriot League Tournament for the second year in a row and the first time in back-to-back seasons in the history of the program. 2009 also became the first time in program history that Holy Cross finished the season with a winning record in Patriot League play in back-to-back seasons, the first time they finished tied for first place in the Patriot League loss column and the first time since the 1922-1923 season that Holy Cross baseball boasted back-to-back 20+ win seasons. The 2009 season marked just the third time in program history that the Patriot League Player-of-the-Year (Junior - Matt Perry) donned the purple and white. Posting their highest regular season win total since 1978, Holy Cross baseball also set new single-season records for runs, hits, doubles, homeruns, runs batted in and total bases.

DiCenzo came to Holy Cross from Northeastern University, where he served as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for five seasons. During his time at Northeastern, the Huskies won the America East Tournament and advanced to the Baton Rouge Regional in 2003. While they won the America East Regular Season Championship in 2004 and 2005, the NU pitching staff set the school record for strikeouts in DiCenzo's first four seasons as pitching coach. He had two pitchers earn America East Pitcher of the Year honors and four of his pitchers were selected in the Major League Baseball Draft, including Adam Ottavino who was drafted in the first round by the St. Louis Cardinals in 2006. Additionally, six other positional players had been drafted or signed to professional contracts while DiCenzo held the title of Recruiting Coordinator/Pitching Coach at Northeastern University.

DiCenzo was also an assistant coach for the Falmouth Commodores of the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League for four seasons from 2002-2005. While on the Cape, DiCenzo had the opportunity to work with many of the top collegiate baseball players in the country, including the likes of David Aardsma, Matt Antonelli, Cliff Pennington, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jensen Lewis and Brian Bocock.

A native of Duxbury, Mass., DiCenzo earned three degrees from St. Lawrence University with a Bachelor of Science Degree (1998), a Masters Degree in Education (2000) and a Masters Degree in Education Administration (2002). He spent four seasons on the baseball coaching staff at his alma mater and two seasons as an assistant football coach. In baseball, he was an assistant coach for three seasons and served as interim head coach in 2002. As an athlete, DiCenzo was a four-year member of the St. Lawrence baseball team, captaining the team as a senior. He was also a one-year member of St. Lawrence's men's soccer team, and a four-time all-conference kicker and punter for the school's football team.

 
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