Matt Senk Explained

Matt Senk
Current Title:Head coach
Current Team:Stony Brook
Current Conference:CAA
Current Record:922–641–4
Alma Mater:Cortland State University
Adelphi University
Player Years1:1977–1980
Player Team1:Cortland State
Player Positions:Catcher
Coach Years1:198?
Coach Team1:Elwood (NY) John Glenn (Asst.)
Coach Years2:198?–1987
Coach Team2:Rockville Centre (NY) Saint Agnes
Coach Years3:1988–1990
Coach Team3:Uniondale (NY) Kellenberg Memorial
Coach Years4:1991–present
Coach Team4:Stony Brook
Overall Record:922–641–4
Championships:
  • 6× America East Regular season Championships (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021)
  • 6× America East Tournament championships (2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2019)
  • NCAA Regional Champion (2012)
  • NCAA Super Regional Champion (2012)
  • College World Series Appearance (2012)
Awards:
  • America East Coach of the Year (2011, 2012, 2014)
  • NCBWA National Coach of Year Award (2012)

Matt Senk is an American college baseball coach who is currently the head coach of the Stony Brook Seawolves. Senk has held the head coaching position at Stony Brook since prior to the 1991 season.[1] [2] [3] [4] Under Senk, Stony Brook has won America East Conference baseball tournaments in 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, and 2019, appearing in the NCAA tournament each of those seasons.[5] In 2012, Stony Brook won the Coral Gables Regional and advanced to the Baton Rouge Regional to face LSU. After defeating LSU in a three-game series, the team moved on to the College World Series for the first time in program history. It was the first time that a school from the Northeast had reached the College World Series since 1986.[6]

Senk won the 2012 America East Conference Coach of the Year Award and went on to win the NCBWA National Coach of Year Award.[7] [8]

Career

Senk graduated from John Glenn High School in 1976 and attended Cortland State for college, where he played catcher.[9] In college, Senk started for three years and was a two-time All-SUNYAC selection and the team's Most Valuable Player in his senior year.[10] [11] He earned his master's degree in physical education at Adelphi University.

Senk coached high school teams at St. Agnes Cathedral and Kellenberg Memorial on Long Island before leaving his position to start coaching Stony Brook's Division III baseball team in 1991. Senk recruited shortstop Joe Nathan of Pine Bush, New York, to play for Stony Brook through a Pine Bush assistant coach that was a former college teammate of his.[12] Nathan would become Senk's first recruit to reach the major leagues when he debuted for the San Francisco Giants as a pitcher in 1999.

In 2004, Senk won his first America East tournament to advance to the NCAA tournament regionals for the first time in the program's Division I history.[13] Senk won his first America East Coach of the Year in 2011 after guiding the Seawolves to their first conference regular season championship and ending the season 42–12 while going 22–2 in conference play.[14] In 2012, Senk guided the Seawolves to their fourth NCAA tournament regional after earning the most wins in the country; the Seawolves would win the Coral Gables Regional as the four-seed and then upset the LSU Tigers in the Baton Rouge Super Regionals to reach the first College World Series in program history, while also becoming the first Northeast school to accomplish the feat since 1986 and the first New York school since 1980. Finishing the season at 52–15, Senk won the NCBWA National Coach of the Year award.[15]

In September 2019, Senk was given an extension through the 2024 season.[16]

In 2022, Senk was inducted into the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame.[17] The America East Conference suspended Senk for the first nine games of the 2022 season "in response to an incident that occurred during the 2021 season in which Coach Senk acted contrary to NCAA Baseball Rules and America East Bylaws governing conduct."[18]

On March 8, 2023 with a 15–5 victory over LIU, Senk won his 900th game, becoming the seventh active Division I baseball head coach to win 900 games at one school.[19]

Head coaching record

Below is a table of Senk's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.[20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2010 Stony Brook Seawolves Baseball Media Guide . Issuu . 8 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160809133934/http://issuu.com/stonybrookathletics/docs/2010baseball_media_guide?viewMode=magazine&mode=embed . 9 August 2016 . dead .
  2. Web site: College Baseball Conference Standings – 2010 . BoydsWorld.com . 8 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130214060631/http://www.boydsworld.com/data/standings/standings2010.html . 14 February 2013 . dead .
  3. Web site: America East Conference 2012 Season Preview . CollegeBaseballToday.com . 8 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160313202956/http://blogs.eastonbaseball.com/collegebaseballtoday/2012/02/11/2012-preview-america-east/ . 13 March 2016 . 11 February 2012 . dead .
  4. Web site: LSU to Host Stony Brook in Super Regional . KSLA.com . 8 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032607/http://www.ksla.com/story/18700714/lsu-to-host-stony-bror . 4 March 2016 . dead .
  5. Web site: America East Baseball Record Book . AmericaEast.com . 8 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120530204319/http://www.americaeast.com/fls/14000/records/base.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=14000 . 30 May 2012 . dead .
  6. Web site: Stony Brook Defeats L.S.U. to Advance to College World Series . . 12 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120612142904/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/sports/stony-brook-defeats-lsu-to-advance-to-college-world-series.html . 12 June 2012 . 11 June 2012 . dead .
  7. Web site: 2012 Coral Gables Regional . dead . CollegeBaseballInsider.com . 8 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714131632/http://www.collegebaseballinsider.com/12Postseason/CoralGablesReg.html . 14 July 2014.
  8. Web site: Senk named 2012 NCBWA Coach of the Year. goseawolves.org. 22 June 2012.
  9. Web site: https://www.newsday.com/sports/college/stony-brook/senk-loves-being-big-fish-in-sbu-s-small-p.
  10. Web site: Matt Senk - Head Coach - Staff Directory. Stony Brook University Athletics. en. 2019-06-02.
  11. Web site: '40 for 40' Celebrates Div. III Week - SUNY Cortland. www2.cortland.edu. 2019-06-02.
  12. Web site: Matt Senk: the steady hand in the swift growth of Stony Brook Baseball. Oakes. Tim. The Statesman. 14 May 2017 . en-US. 2019-06-02.
  13. Web site: Seawolves Crowned America East Champions. Stony Brook University Athletics. 29 May 2004 . en. 2019-06-02.
  14. Web site: Regular-Season Champion Stony Brook Sweeps Individual Awards. americaeast.com. en. 2019-06-02.
  15. Web site: NCBWA > Awards > National Coach of the Year. www.sportswriters.net. 2019-06-02.
  16. Web site: Tam . Ethan . 2019-09-29 . Athletics announces extension for Senk through 2024 . 2020-04-03 . The Statesman . en-US.
  17. Web site: Release . Press . Legendary Seawolves Coach Matt Senk enshrined in Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame TBR News Media . 16 January 2022 . 2022-05-10 . en-US.
  18. Web site: Lindsay . Matt . 2021-08-10 . Stony Brook baseball head coach to serve nine-game suspension . 2022-05-10 . The Statesman . en-US.
  19. Web site: Baseball Offense Explodes Against LIU; Coach Senk Records 900th Career Victory . 2023-03-09 . Stony Brook University Athletics . 8 March 2023 . en.
  20. Web site: 2012 America East Baseball Standings . AmericaEast.com . 8 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130424162946/http://www.americaeast.com/standings/Standings.dbml?&SPSID=59708&SPID=6544&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=14000 . 24 April 2013 . dead .
  21. News: Marcus . Steve . Haag Leads Seawolves . 8 June 2012 . Newsday . 12 May 1994 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307001606/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/101800963.html?dids=101800963:101800963&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+12%2C+1994&author=Steve+Marcus&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Haag+Leads+Seawolves&pqatl=google . 7 March 2016 . Long Island, NY . A92 . dead .
  22. News: Pelzman . J.P. . Stony Brook in a League of Its Own . 8 June 2012 . Newsday . 19 December 1994 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160306201731/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/101904753.html?dids=101904753:101904753&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+19%2C+1994&author=By+J.P.+Pelzman.+STAFF+WRITER&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Stony+Brook+in+a+League+of+Its+Own&pqatl=google . 6 March 2016 . Long Island, NY . A40 . dead .
  23. Web site: Bruce Kirsh . Athletics.FranklinPierce.edu . 8 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120514102032/http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu/information/directory/bios/kirsh_bruce . 14 May 2012 . He served as the assistant commissioner to the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC), one of the most competitive all-around NCAA Division II conference in the nation before its run ended after the 1999–2000 season. . dead .
  24. Web site: 2013 America East Conference Baseball Standings . AmericaEast.com . May 25, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130424162946/http://www.americaeast.com/standings/Standings.dbml?&SPSID=59708&SPID=6544&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=14000 . April 24, 2013 . dead .

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Matt Senk".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.