Army West Point Athletics
Pinzino Joins Black Knights’ Baseball Staff
July 12, 2017 | Baseball
WEST POINT, N.Y. – Army West Point head baseball coach Jim Foster announced the hiring of 17-year coaching veteran Jamie Pinzino to his staff on Thursday.
"I would like to welcome Coach Pinzino and his family to West Point they are a tremendous addition to our community and our baseball program. Jamie is a coach that is at the top of our profession in all areas, he is tireless worker and a first class individual who will be a huge part of our program's success going forward," Foster said.
Pinzino comes to West Point after a one-year stint as the Associate Head and Pitching Coach at Virginia Tech. While with the Hokies, his primary roles were to serve as the team's pitching coach and the recruiting coordinator.
During his brief time in Blacksburg, Va., Pinzino helped coach Packy Naughton and Aaron McGarity, who were both picked up in the 2017 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, while improving the staff earned run average nearly a full run from the previous season.
Prior to that, he spent three seasons at Oklahoma from 2013-2016. During that span, Pinzino heard 13 of his pitchers' names being called in the MLB Draft, which included a nation-high seven during the 2015 draft.
Pinzino took over a pitching staff that returned just 29% of its conference innings in 2014 and helped secure one of the best bullpens in the Big 12 with a collective 3.48 ERA and 2.11 strikeout-to-walk ratio. In 2015, Sooner pitchers struck out 524 batters, the third-highest total ever amassed by the team in a single season, while earning a 3.39 ERA and a 2.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio as a staff.
Pinzino also has experience as a head coach as he spent time at the helm of the College of William and Mary, Bryant, and Assumption baseball programs. He owns an overall career record of 212-174.
Prior to his stint at Oklahoma, Pinzino served as the head coach of the Tribe, where his squad set program records with 39 wins and 17 conference victories in 2013. His team earned the program's first ever at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the Raleigh Regional finals. Pinzino was named both the 2013 Colonial Athletic Association Co-Coach of the Year and the VaSID Coach of the Year after knocking off No. 21 Mississippi twice in the Raleigh Regional before being knocked out by No. 7 North Carolina State in the Regional Final.
As the pitching coach for the Tribe in 2012,William & Mary's staff ranked 13th nationally in ERA (3.01), ninth in fewest walks (2.3/game), seventh in WHIP (1.17) and sixth in strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.06).
As the head coach at Bryant (2006-10), he registered a 162-122 record, while transitioning the program from the Division II Northeast-10 to the Division I Northeast Conference, which resulted in an NEC regular season title in 2010 with a 29-7 league record, and the NEC Coach of the Year award. He was named the Northeast-10 Coach of the Year in 2007 as he led Bryant to its first of two NCAA Division II Regional Finals. The Bulldogs posted a program-best 43 wins in 2008 as they won the league's regular season title.
Pinzino spent his first collegiate head coaching year at Division II Assumption in 2005. He has also served as an assistant at Northeastern (2011), Tufts (2003-04), Holy Cross (2002), and Pomona-Pitzer (1998). Overall, Pinzino has coached 25 pitchers who have been selected in the MLB draft, and three conference pitchers of the year.
A 1997 graduate of Tufts University with a bachelor's degree in history, he later earned a master's degree in educational studies during his assistant coaching stint with the Jumbos. He was a four-year letterwinner at Tufts, helping the Jumbos win three ECAC Championships. In 1995, Tufts reached the NCAA Division III Regional as the No. 2 seed. Pinzino was the Tufts Baseball Elias Award recipient in 1997.
He and his wife, Cheryl, have a son, Henry.
"I would like to welcome Coach Pinzino and his family to West Point they are a tremendous addition to our community and our baseball program. Jamie is a coach that is at the top of our profession in all areas, he is tireless worker and a first class individual who will be a huge part of our program's success going forward," Foster said.
Pinzino comes to West Point after a one-year stint as the Associate Head and Pitching Coach at Virginia Tech. While with the Hokies, his primary roles were to serve as the team's pitching coach and the recruiting coordinator.
During his brief time in Blacksburg, Va., Pinzino helped coach Packy Naughton and Aaron McGarity, who were both picked up in the 2017 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, while improving the staff earned run average nearly a full run from the previous season.
Prior to that, he spent three seasons at Oklahoma from 2013-2016. During that span, Pinzino heard 13 of his pitchers' names being called in the MLB Draft, which included a nation-high seven during the 2015 draft.
Pinzino took over a pitching staff that returned just 29% of its conference innings in 2014 and helped secure one of the best bullpens in the Big 12 with a collective 3.48 ERA and 2.11 strikeout-to-walk ratio. In 2015, Sooner pitchers struck out 524 batters, the third-highest total ever amassed by the team in a single season, while earning a 3.39 ERA and a 2.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio as a staff.
Pinzino also has experience as a head coach as he spent time at the helm of the College of William and Mary, Bryant, and Assumption baseball programs. He owns an overall career record of 212-174.
Prior to his stint at Oklahoma, Pinzino served as the head coach of the Tribe, where his squad set program records with 39 wins and 17 conference victories in 2013. His team earned the program's first ever at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the Raleigh Regional finals. Pinzino was named both the 2013 Colonial Athletic Association Co-Coach of the Year and the VaSID Coach of the Year after knocking off No. 21 Mississippi twice in the Raleigh Regional before being knocked out by No. 7 North Carolina State in the Regional Final.
As the pitching coach for the Tribe in 2012,William & Mary's staff ranked 13th nationally in ERA (3.01), ninth in fewest walks (2.3/game), seventh in WHIP (1.17) and sixth in strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.06).
As the head coach at Bryant (2006-10), he registered a 162-122 record, while transitioning the program from the Division II Northeast-10 to the Division I Northeast Conference, which resulted in an NEC regular season title in 2010 with a 29-7 league record, and the NEC Coach of the Year award. He was named the Northeast-10 Coach of the Year in 2007 as he led Bryant to its first of two NCAA Division II Regional Finals. The Bulldogs posted a program-best 43 wins in 2008 as they won the league's regular season title.
Pinzino spent his first collegiate head coaching year at Division II Assumption in 2005. He has also served as an assistant at Northeastern (2011), Tufts (2003-04), Holy Cross (2002), and Pomona-Pitzer (1998). Overall, Pinzino has coached 25 pitchers who have been selected in the MLB draft, and three conference pitchers of the year.
A 1997 graduate of Tufts University with a bachelor's degree in history, he later earned a master's degree in educational studies during his assistant coaching stint with the Jumbos. He was a four-year letterwinner at Tufts, helping the Jumbos win three ECAC Championships. In 1995, Tufts reached the NCAA Division III Regional as the No. 2 seed. Pinzino was the Tufts Baseball Elias Award recipient in 1997.
He and his wife, Cheryl, have a son, Henry.
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