Scott Friedholm Added To Baseball Staff
July 28, 2010 | Baseball
July 28, 2010
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Scott Friedholm, who has spent the last five seasons as the recruiting coordinator and pitching coach at Navy, has been named an assistant coach for the Boston College baseball team, announced by head coach Mike Gambino.
Friedholm, who will also be the recruiting coordinator and pitching coach for the Eagles, has helped the Midshipmen reach new heights on the diamond. He guided the pitching staff to the highest five-year win (149), strikeout (1,757) and save (59) totals among any other five-year stretch in program history.
"We're really lucky to have Scott, along with his wife Angie and son Cooper, join the BC baseball family," Gambino said. "He brings the kind of values and ethics that are important to our program. His track record of being able to recruit and develop talent speaks for itself. He worked under one of the great coaches in Paul Kostacopoulos and had success at both Maine and at Navy. Scott and Angie both grew up in Massachusetts and I'm extremely excited to have them back."
Friedholm developed the first two pitchers to ever be drafted out of Navy while also mentoring 12 all-conference selections, three freshman All-Americans and one All-American. The Midshipmen won 30 games in four of the five years he was at Navy. The program had done that just three times in the previous 110 seasons.
Prior to arriving in Annapolis, Friedholm spent four seasons in the same capacity at Maine, producing a pair of MLB draft picks and guiding the Black Bears to two NCAA Tournament appearances. Friedholm also served as the pitching coach for two seasons at Bryant, where the Bulldogs set school records in both overall and Northeast-10 Conference wins in consecutive years.
Friedholm played four seasons at Providence from 1995-98. As a freshman, he was part of the Friars squad that won 44 games and a program-record 16 Big East games that earned them a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Friedholm earned All-Big East and all-region honors in 1996 and then as a senior he hit .395 with 13 homers and a school-record 66 RBI, earning All-America honors.
Friedholm signed a free agent contract with the Tampa Bay organization in June of 1998. He played for the St. Petersburg Devil Rays of the Class A Florida State League. In 1999, he attended the Rays' spring training camp.
Friedholm graduated from Providence in 1998 with a degree in history.
