Tim Scannell is an American

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coach, currently serving as head coach of the

Trinity University (Texas) Trinity University is a private liberal arts college in San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 1869, its student body consists of about 2,600 undergraduate and 200 graduate students. Trinity offers 49 majors and 61 minors among six degree programs, ...

baseball team since 1999. In 2016, Scannell was named the NCAA DIII National Coach of the Year after leading his

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to the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship.

Playing career

Scannell grew up in

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and attended

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, lettering in baseball for the Hawks. Scannell then was a four-year starter for the

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and earned All- NAC honors in 1990 and 1991. He served as team captain for two seasons and posted a .370 career batting average. Scannell also spent two summers playing in the

Cape Cod Baseball League The Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL or Cape League) is a collegiate summer baseball wooden bat league located on Cape Cod in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. One of the nation's premier collegiate summer leagues, the league boasts over one thousan ...

(CCBL) with the

Harwich Mariners The Harwich Mariners are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Harwich, Massachusetts. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) and plays in the league's East Division. The Mariners play their home games at Whitehouse Fiel ...

in 1989 and the

Cotuit Kettleers The Cotuit Kettleers are a collegiate summer baseball team based in the village of Cotuit, Massachusetts, which is in the southwest corner of the town of Barnstable. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) and plays in the lea ...

in 1990.

Coaching career

Scannell began his coaching career as assistant baseball coach at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

in 1993. He then returned to his alma mater

where the Huskies captured the NAC title and advanced to

1994 NCAA Division I baseball tournament The 1994 NCAA Division I baseball tournament was played at the end of the 1994 NCAA Division I baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series ...

. In 1999, Scannell became the head baseball coach at Trinity after two years as assistant coach. Since taking over in 1999, Scannell has become the winningest Trinity baseball coach in history having amassed a record of 709–268 as of 2020. His winning percentage of .726 places him in the top-10 among active Division III coaches. He has also guided the Tigers to nine

Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), founded in 1962, is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in Colorado, Louisiana, and Texas. Difficulties related to travel distanc ...

Championships. In the summer of 1999, he returned to the CCBL to serve as hitting coach of his former Cotuit team. In 2016, Scannell and his

won the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship. Scannell has been elected as the SCAC Coach of the Year nine times and was elected the 2015 NCAA Division III West Region Coach of the Year by the

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. In 2016, after leading Trinity to the

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Championship, he was named National Coach of the Year by D3Baseball.com

Personal

Tim Scannell is married and has three sons, Matthew, TJ, and James. Son Matthew plays baseball at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

References

External links

Trinity Tigers profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scannell, Tim Living people People from Weymouth, Massachusetts Xaverian Brothers High School alumni Northeastern Huskies baseball players Cotuit Kettleers players Harwich Mariners players Cape Cod Baseball League coaches Trinity Tigers baseball Trinity Tigers baseball coaches Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people)