Timothy Sinicki is an American
college baseball coach, who has been the head coach of the
Binghamton Bearcats since the start of the 1993 season. Under Sinicki, Binghamton has appeared in two
NCAA Division I Baseball Championships.
When Sinicki became Binghamton's head coach in 1993, the school competed in the
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. Under Sinicki, the Bearcats moved to
Division II for the 1999 and 2000 seasons and
Division I at the start of the
2001 season. After spending 2001 in the
New York State Baseball Conference
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, Binghamton joined the
America East Conference for the
2002 season.
The program made its first Division I postseason appearance in the
2005 America East tournament, where it was eliminated with consecutive losses to
Northeastern and
Vermont. From
2007
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–
2010
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, Sinicki led Binghamton to four consecutive regular season America East titles.
The team won the
2009 America East tournament to advance to its
first NCAA tournament, where it won a game against
George Mason.
Binghamton appeared in its
second NCAA tournament in
2013
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after winning
that season's America East tournament.
Sinicki played four seasons of college baseball for three different programs: Binghamton (1985),
Broome CC (1986), and
Western Carolina
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(1987–1988). A pitcher, Sinicki led Western Carolina in
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as a senior and appeared in both the
1987
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and
1988
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NCAA tournaments.
He was drafted by the
Pittsburgh Pirates
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in
Major League Baseball's winter draft in 1986, but he chose to finish college rather than sign a professional contract.
Head coaching record
Below is a table of Sinicki's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.
See also
*
List of current NCAA Division I baseball coaches
References
External links
Binghamton Bearcats bio
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Binghamton Bearcats baseball coaches
Binghamton Bearcats baseball players
SUNY Broome Hornets baseball players
Western Carolina Catamounts baseball players
Baseball coaches from New York (state)
People from Johnson City, New York