Matt Marsh was named as an assistant coach in July 2022 and will assist with George Mason’s hitters and baserunners in addition to working with the catchers, infielders and outfielders. Marsh comes to Fairfax after making stops at UMBC, the University of Maine, Ward Melville High School, Motus Academy and working in a number of travel baseball organizations from 9U - 18U.
Prior to George Mason, Marsh was most recently at UMBC from May 2020 to June 2022. In his first year there Coach Marsh worked alongside current George Mason Assistant Coach, Ryan Terrill and the UMBC offense ranked in the top 50 in the country in On Base Percentage, #20 in the country in stolen bases and at the top of the conference in many offensive categories. He was responsible for working with the infielders and catchers along with the baserunners and offense. During that year the UMBC Infield completed the most plays of any team in the America East in 2021. The UMBC Catchers received 99% of pitches in the zone for strikes and 90% of pitches a baseball or two off the plate for strikes. He was also heavily involved on the recruiting side of things with recruiting efforts on the high school front, junior college front and transfer portal as well. In his second year at UMBC, the program continued to have success offensively, defensively and on the basepaths. In 2022 UMBC ranked 22nd in the country and second in the conference in stolen bases with 97, first in the conference in OBP, second in the conference in toughest to strikeout, first in the conference in K:BB/HBP. We had the conference leader in defensive assists as our SS in Drew Roberts, the top fielding percentage for a second basemen in Myles Nicholson, 10 hitters over .270, 8 over .280 and 5 over .300 in batting avg
Prior to UMBC, Marsh was a volunteer assistant at University of Maine from July of 2017 to April of 2020. At Maine he most recently served as their outfield coach, while assisting with the hitters, coaching the baserunners, and coaching first base in-game. In year two, he was also responsible for pitcher defense and runner control. Coach Marsh also developed a vast network of AAU, Junior College, and high school coaches, served in on-campus recruiting, filled recruitable coach positions when needed, attended several camps and clinics every summer, and acted as a camp director. As a camp director, Maine camps exponentially grew with Prospect Camps, Team Camps, Summer Youth Camp, Winter PDP, and the Maine Grizzlies AAU Program. With the increases in fundraising, the program was able to purchase both Rapsodo and Synergy. Coach Marsh has a lot of experience working with synergy to prepare reports and to enhance player development. In his first two years at Maine, he also managed program social media accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Marsh began working as a camp counselor at a youth camp at age 16. Coach Marsh worked his way up from working with young travel baseball players to high school travel players to high school student-athletes and into college athletics. Coach Marsh made several stops along the way in starting his own AAU program three different times in multiple locations with Longhorns Baseball Club at age 18, Motus Academy at age 21, and the Maine Grizzlies while working at University of Maine. Coach Marsh has also worked for the NY Nationals, Long Island Lookouts, Long Island Patriots, Long Island Prospects, Rawlings A’s Prospects and Ward Melville High School.
Coach Marsh has had experience on both sides of the recruiting process in his time coaching, He has coached over 500 youth baseball players, of which over 200 have gone on to play college baseball. During his time in running Motus Academy, the program expanded from 91 players to 238 players within three years, seeing 73 college commitments and one draft pick. During his time there he managed the athletes’ recruitment processes, developed recruitment videos, attended college visits with the athletes, built rosters, tournament schedules, practice schedules, and budgets for 16 teams, managed the website and social media account, interviewed, and hired coaches. He also directed and marketed for a tournament in which they had over 50 teams in a weekend and 15 college coaches attend. For three years he directed a showcase, which had between 50 - 85 attendees a year and 15 - 20 college coaches.
Marsh has seen seven players that he has coached go on to play professional baseball starting with Ben Brown (Philadelphia Phillies) who he coached for seven years and that list also includes Jeremy Pena (Houston Astros), Chris Bec (Toronto Blue Jays), Brandon Vicens (Chicago Cubs), Cody Laweryson (Minnesota Twins), Nick Silva (Chicago White Sox), Danny Casals (Milwaukee Brewers), Nick Sinacola (San Francisco Giants), Alex McKenney (Philadelphia Phillies), Justin Courtney (LA Angels) and Matt Pushard (Miami Marlins).
After being brought in to coach at Ward Melville High School by Lou Petrucci and Athletic Director, Pete Melore, Marsh received the Section XI League I JV Coach of the Year Award in 2017. In 2017 his club was JV League Champions and set the school record for most wins in a high school season in going 19-1. On that Ward Melville team were 31 players in 2016 and 32 players in 2017 without an assistant coach. Coach Marsh had an overall High School Record 30 – 9 in two years. Coach Marsh was also voluntarily assisting with Varsity program during the playoff season.
Marsh is originally from East Setauket, N.Y., he graduated from Loyola University of Maryland in 2015 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and a minor in Information Systems and also received his Master’s in Business Administration from University of Maine in 2020. He currently resides in Ellicott City, Maryland with his wife, Keanna Marsh and their dog, Mandy.
