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GIANNETTI GETS 600TH CAREER WIN
April 20, 2009

GIANNETTI GETS 600TH CAREER WIN

Orangeburg, NY (4/20/09) Dominican College Head Baseball Coach, Rick Giannetti, notched his 600th career coaching win this past Friday in a 2-1 extra inning victory over the visiting Philadelphia University Rams.

Orangeburg, NY (4/20/09)  Dominican College Head Baseball Coach, Rick Giannetti, notched his 600th career coaching win this past Friday in a 2-1 extra inning victory over the visiting Philadelphia University Rams.

Giannetti has been at the helm of the Charger baseball program for the past 20 years.  He has guided Dominican to 12 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Championships, 9 regional tournament appearances, 1 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship and 2 NAIA World Series Appearances. His teams have qualified for post season play every year except one.

Giannetti spent his collegiate career at Ramapo College of New Jersey where he was a member of the baseball team for four years. As a pitcher, he never lost a game in college and for three of those years had a single digit statistic for walks allowed. The Roadrunners also went to three regional tournaments in his tenure there. He graduated in 1982 with a double major B.S. in psychology and business.

His collegiate coaching career started at his alma mater joining the team as an assistant coach in 1983 and helped guide the Roadrunners to a National Championship in 1984. Giannetti then took over the reigns in 1988 and spent two years as the head coach. In that time, he made two conference tournament appearances, won a conference championship in 1988 and made a regional tournament appearance.

Coach Giannetti has been awarded the CACC Coach of the Year award 8 times in his tenure and the Regional Coach of the Year Award 4 times. He has also been a finalist for the National Coach of the Year Award 4 times. He has coached 48 All-American players and 119 All-Conference Players and has had 19 players sign professional contracts, with two players) currently in the Chicago Cubs minor league system & one with the Boston Red Sox.

Currently the Chargers have a 25-9 record and are ranked #1 in the NCAA East Region and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) rankings.

Giannetti now has a career coaching record of 602-384 and his record at Dominican now stands at 557-335.

 

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.  Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world.  Dominican also sponsors 18 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level.  To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.