| Grant Achilles | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | Brown |
| Current Conference: | Ivy League |
| Current Record: | 108–224 |
| Birth Date: | 11 June 1983 |
| Birth Place: | Lynchburg, Virginia, U.S. |
| Player Years1: | 2002–2006 |
| Player Team1: | Wake Forest |
| Player Positions: | First Baseman, Second Baseman, Outfielder |
| Coach Years1: | 2007 |
| Coach Team1: | Charlotte (asst.) |
| Coach Years2: | 2008–2009 |
| Coach Team2: | Western Carolina (asst.) |
| Coach Years3: | 2010–2011 |
| Coach Team3: | Wake Forest (asst.) |
| Coach Years4: | 2012 |
| Coach Team4: | Georgetown (asst.) |
| Coach Years5: | 2013–2014 |
| Coach Team5: | Brown (asst.) |
| Coach Years6: | 2015–present |
| Coach Team6: | Brown |
| Overall Record: | 108–224 |
| Tournament Record: | NCAA: 0–0 |
Grant Achilles (born June 11, 1983) is an American college baseball coach and former infielder, who is the current head baseball coach of the Brown Bears.
Achilles attended Heritage High School in Lynchburg, Virginia. Achilles played for the school's varsity baseball team. Achilles then enrolled at Wake Forest University, to play college baseball for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons baseball team.
During his freshman and sophomore season, Achilles appeared in 13 games gathering twelve plate appearances going 0-for-6. He missed the entire 2004 season with a medical redshirt.[1]
As a junior in 2005, Achilles had a .254 batting average, a .343 on-base percentage (OBP) and a .339 SLG.
As a senior in 2006, Achilles batted .185 with a .296 SLG, 1 home run, and 4 RBIs.
Achilles began his coaching career in 2007 as an assistant with the Charlotte 49ers baseball program. On August 28, 2007, Achilles was hired as a volunteer coach for the Western Carolina Catamounts baseball program.[2] After three years at Western Carolina, Achilles returned to Wake Forest as a volunteer assistant.[3] On September 22, 2011, Achilles was named an assistant at Georgetown.[4] After just a season at Georgetown, Achilles left to become the top assistant at Brown.
On April 11, 2014, Marek Drabinski stepped down as the head coach and Achilles and Mike McCormack were named the interim head coaches the remainder of the year.[5] After going 7–9 as the co-interim head coach, Achilles was named the lone head coach of Brown on June 23, 2014.[6]