Sport(s) | Baseball |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Quinnipiac |
Conference | Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference |
Record | 29–27 |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Hanson, Massachusetts |
December 30, 1985
Alma mater |
Xaverian Brothers High School Quinnipiac, B.A. |
Playing career | |
2005–2008 | Quinnipiac |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2011 | Sacred Heart (asst.) |
2012 | Hartford (asst.) |
2013–2014 | Quinnipiac (asst.) |
2015–present | Quinnipiac |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 29–27 |
Tournaments | MAAC: 2–2 |
John Delaney (born December 30, 1985) is an American college baseball coach who was named Quinnipiac's head coach prior to the start of the 2015 season. A Quinnipiac alumnus, Delaney played minor league baseball in the Milwaukee Brewers system before starting his coaching career.
Delaney attended Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts, where he won a state baseball championship in 2004. Delaney played college baseball at Quinnipiac from 2005 to 2008. He was named an all-Northeast Conference player each year. In 2008, the Milwaukee Brewers selected him in the 25th round of the Major League Baseball Draft. He spent 2008 and 2009 in Milwaukee's minor league system, advancing as high as Class-A Wisconsin. He played independent league baseball in 2010 before retiring.
He began his coaching career as an assistant at Sacred Heart in 2011 under head coach Nick Giaquinto. That year, the Pioneers won the NEC Tournament to advance to their second NCAA Tournament, where they went 0–2. Delaney spent 2012 as an assistant at Hartford under first-year head coach Justin Blood.