William Mosiello (born July 14, 1964) is a

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coach and former

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, who is the current head baseball coach of the

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. He played

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Cerritos College Cerritos College is a public community college in Norwalk, California. It offers degrees and certificates in 87 areas of study in nine divisions. History The college was founded in 1955. It was named after Rancho Los Cerritos, a local ra ...

from 1984 to 1985 before transferring to

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where he played in 1986.

Playing career

Mosiello went to

Cerritos High School Cerritos High School, also called CHS, is a comprehensive, four-year public high school located in Cerritos, California, serving grades 9-12. It is part of the ABC Unified School District. As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrol ...

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, where he played catcher. Mosiello redshirted the 1983 season at

. He then transferred and played at

. As a Freshman, Mosiello was named the most inspirational player for the Falcons. He was named second team All- South Coast Conference as a sophomore. Mosiello then returned to

, where he lettered in 1986.

Coaching career

Mosiello began his coaching career in 1987, returning to Cerritos as their hitting coach. He would join the staff at

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from 1991 to 1992. 1993, saw him take the hitting coach position with the

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. Mosiello skippered the

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, a collegiate summer baseball team in the Cape Cod Baseball League, in 1994 and from 1996 to 1999, and was named the league's manager of the year in 1998. While an assistant coach at Oklahoma, Mosiello abruptly quit 23 games into the 2001 season after being told to temper his intensity. In 2004, Mosiello was manager of the

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. The Yankees moved him to the

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in 2005, where the RiverDogs best first half record allowed him to manage the

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's South Division All Stars. Mosiello joined

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's staff as the hitting coach of the

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in 2007. After a single season, he left the Trojans to join the

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. While managing the

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during the 2011 season, Mosiello abruptly resigned to return to the college game, as well as Tennessee in 2011, as the team's hitting coach. In the summer of 2013, Mosiello joined

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's staff at TCU. His longest coaching stay came at TCU, where he helped lead the Horned Frogs to seven NCAA tournaments and four

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from 2014 to 2022. On June 16, 2022, Mosiello was named the head coach at

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, his first head coaching position at the Division I level in his lengthy coaching career.

Head coaching record

Personal life

Mosiello and his wife, Janelle, have three sons: Shane, Gehrig and Helton.

References

External links

Ohio State Buckeyes bio
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