Longwood University baseball head coach Ryan Mau announced the hiring of Pat Barrett as the team’s director of operations and player development prior to the 2020 season.
“We are excited to have Pat join our staff,” said Mau. “He is passionate about the game and possesses a very detail-oriented mindset. Those traits, along with his eagerness to learn, will be a big asset in our daily operations and player development.
A graduate of Virginia Wesleyan, Barrett comes to Longwood with experience at multiple collegiate levels as well as analytics. Most recently, he served as the pitching coach at Franklin Pierce University, an NCAA Division II school located in Rindge, New Hampshire. Prior to that, he worked as a pitching coach/recruiting coordinator at West Virginia Wesleyan College.
While still an undergraduate at Virginia Wesleyan, Barrett began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Stratford University in Newport News, Virginia. Upon graduation, he went Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut as an assistant coach. In the summer of 2018, he also worked as the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League as the pitching coach of the Riverhead Tomcats and helped lead the team to its first league championship in the team’s 11-year history.
Barrett holds a Bachelor’s in Social Sciences from Virginia Wesleyan.
Longwood opens the season with a four-game series at home against Purdue-Fort Wayne from February 14-16 at Buddy Bolding Stadium.
