Tony Vittorio is a

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player and coach. He is currently the head coach of the

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baseball team. He was the head baseball coach of the

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program. Vittorio has been the head coach at Dayton since the 2000 season, accumulating over 350 wins and overseeing the construction of the Flyers'

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Early years

Vittorio grew up in

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and graduated from

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in 1984. He then attended and graduated from

Hanover College Hanover College is a private college in Hanover, Indiana, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Founded in 1827 by Reverend John Finley Crowe, it is Indiana's oldest private college. The Hanover athletic teams participate in the H ...

in 1988 with a double major in

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and

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. Vittorio played four years of

at Hanover. Vittorio then attended the

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, where he graduated in 1997 with a

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Career

After spending one season as a volunteer assistant at

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, Vittorio landed his first head coaching job at age 24 for the Lincoln Trail Community College Statesmen. In the season prior to his arrival, Lincoln Trail had a 2–48 record, but Vittorio rebuilt the program over four seasons, winning 144 games and sending over twenty players to four-year college programs. Vittorio then moved to the

, where he spent two years as an assistant coach while working on his master's degree. Vittorio was hired in 1996 by then- Division II school

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(IPFW), where he spent three seasons coaching the Mastodons, winning a total of 80 games during his tenure. In the fall of 1999, Vittorio was hired by the

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, where he has coached since. Prior to Vittorio's arrival, Dayton had had one winning season (1998). In 2001, Vittorio guided the Flyers to a 32–26 record and a second-place finish in the

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West Division, marking Dayton's second winning season and first appearance in the

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. In 2009, Vittorio was named Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year after leading the Flyers to a 38–19 record, a program-best 21–6 conference record, and the program's first conference regular season championship. In 2012, Vittorio led the Flyers to their first appearance in the

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Head coaching records

The following is a table of Vittorio's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.Atlantic 10 Conference Standings
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References

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