Inducted into the Franklin PierceAthletics Hall of Fame in 2012, Matt Weagle returned to Rindge tobegin his stint as an Assistant Coach with the Franklin PierceUniversity baseball team during the 2012 postseason. He enters hissecond full season with the Ravens in 2014. Weagle assists with alloperations of the five-time regional champion; his gameday dutiesconsist primarily of mentoring the team's pitchers.
Weagle brings seven years ofcollegiate coaching experience back to Rindge with him. Mostrecently, he spent the 2012 campaign as the pitching coach atBecker. While with the Hawks, he mentored an All-NECC Second Teamselection in 2012.
Prior to Becker, Weagle spent fiveseasons as the pitching coach at Worcester Polytechnic Institutefrom 2006-2010, including assisting with the team's first ever NCAAChampionship appearance in 2009. While he was on staff, WPIcaptured the 2007 and 2009 ECAC Championships, the school's firstpostseason titles in the 100-plus-year history of the school'sbaseball program. While with the Engineers, Weagle worked withConor Fahey, who was described as the most-decorated player inprogram history after earning All-America accolades and New EnglandWomen's And Men's Athletic Conference honors in 2009. He was afour-time All-NEWMAC selection and, in all, Weagle produced fiveAll-NEWMAC pitchers at WPI.
Weagle began his college coachingcareer as the pitching coach at Holy Cross in 2004.
As an undergraduate, Weagle playedthree seasons in Rindge (2001-03) under Head Coach Jayson King andbecame the program's first All-America selection in 2003 afterleading the pitching staff on the program's first NCAA Regionalchampion team. In addition to the All-America selection, his 2003campaign also made him the first Raven to earn Regional Pitcher ofthe Year honors, while he also earned All-Region, Northeast-10Pitcher of the Year and All-Northeast-10 accolades.
His 17 career complete games isstill tied for the school record, while he ranks in the top five inprogram annals in innings pitched (254.1) and strikeouts (257). Heheld the school strikeouts record upon his departure from Rindge,and the mark stood for seven years before he was bettered by MikeAdams.
After his junior season, Weaglebecame third draft pick in program history, as he was chosen by theSt. Louis Cardinals in the sixth round (185 overall) of the 2003Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. He remains the thirdhighest draft pick in school history. He pitched 44 innings overtwo seasons with the Cardinals Rookie Level affiliate, the JohnsonCity Cardinals of the Appalachian League, and then logged fourseasons with the Worcester Tornadoes of the independent Can-AmLeague before hanging up the spikes.
Originally from Charlton, Mass.,Weagle received his degree from Franklin Pierce in 2004.
