Matt Marsh enters into his second season with the Hendrix Warriors after being named an assistant coach in August of 2023. He coaches Hendrix’s hitters, baserunners and infielders, while running the offense and being heavily involved in recruiting efforts. Marsh came to Conway after making stops at George Mason, UMBC, the University of Maine, Ward Melville High School, Motus Academy and working in a number of travel baseball organizations from 9U - 18U.
In his first year at Hendrix, the Warriors had reached the SAA Championship for the first time in 13 years. The offense hit .299 as a team, which was the best in over ten years for the program and had the second best On Base Percentage in school history of .421. The Warriors led the SAA Conference in run scoring and stolen bases and were second in toughest to strikeout, on base percentage and doubles in conference play. Hendrix went on to steal 122 bases in the 2024 season, which was good for 9th in the country and 4th in school history. Nine of their ten non-freshmen that started 15 or more games had their best season in their career offensively in several offensive categories including batting average, on base percentage, doubles, least K's, stolen bases and more. The Hendrix offense finished the year with 63 more BB/HBP than strikeouts. The Warriors led the conference in sacrifice bunts as well, playing a style to score in as many ways as possible.
Coach Marsh was most recently in Fairfax, VA at George Mason for the 2022-2023 season. At George Mason, Coach Marsh was responsible for coaching the catchers, infielders, outfielders, hitters and baserunners. George Mason had reached the NCAA Regional Final that year— going the furthest in school history. The Patriots had won their first Atlantic 10 Championship in 2023 since 2014. Their offense set the school stolen base record at 164 and was third in the country in stolen bases. Additionally, it was the best batting average for the program since 2015 and best on base percentage since 2010, while being the toughest team in the Atlantic 10 to strikeout. Several Mason hitters improved in production from 2022 into 2023 season. Defensively the Patriots fielded .972 which was third best in school history. Marsh was also heavily involved in prospect camps, team camps, youth camps, scouting opposing pitchers, defensive positioning, leadership classrooms, writing the alumni newsletter, organizing meals, planning and running practices, academic check ins and 11 recruits to commit to George Mason.
Prior to George Mason, Marsh was at UMBC from May 2020 to June 2022. In his first year there Coach Marsh the UMBC offense ranked in the top 50 in the country in On Base Percentage, #20 in the country in stolen bases and at the top of the conference in many offensive categories. He was responsible for working with the infielders and catchers along with the baserunners and offense. During that year the UMBC Infield completed the most plays of any team in the America East in 2021. The UMBC Catchers received 99% of pitches in the zone for strikes and 90% of pitches a baseball or two off the plate for strikes. He was also heavily involved on the recruiting side of things with recruiting efforts on the high school front, junior college front and transfer portal as well. In his second year at UMBC, the program continued to have success offensively, defensively and on the basepaths. In 2022, UMBC ranked 22nd in the country and second in the conference in stolen bases with 97, first in the conference in OBP, second in the conference in toughest to strikeout, first in the conference in K:BB/HBP. The Retrievers had the conference leader in defensive assists as their SS in Drew Roberts, the top fielding percentage for a second basemen in Myles Nicholson, 10 hitters over .270, 8 over .280 and 5 over .300 in batting avg. Coach Marsh also was involved in recruiting 23 players at UMBC including Leewood Molessa who was a freshman All American. After leaving UMBC, the Retrievers have been in second place in the America East the last two seasons.
Prior to UMBC, Marsh was a volunteer assistant at University of Maine from July of 2017 to April of 2020. At Maine he most recently served as their outfield coach, while assisting with the hitters, coaching the baserunners, and coaching first base in-game. In year two, he was also responsible for pitcher defense and runner control. Coach Marsh also developed a vast network of AAU, Junior College, and high school coaches, served in on-campus recruiting, filled recruitable coach positions when needed, attended several camps and clinics every summer, and acted as a camp director. He recruited two players during those spans including 2X All American Jeremiah Jenkins and freshman weekend starter Caleb Leys. As a camp director, Maine camps exponentially grew with Prospect Camps, Team Camps, Summer Youth Camp, Winter PDP, and the Maine Grizzlies AAU Program. With the increases in fundraising, the program was able to purchase both Rapsodo and Synergy. Coach Marsh has a lot of experience working with synergy to prepare reports and to enhance player development. In his first two years at Maine, he also managed program social media accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. After leaving Maine, the Black Bears have won the America East regular season in 2022 and won the conference championship in 2023.
Marsh began working as a camp counselor at a youth camp at age 16. Coach Marsh worked his way up from working with young travel baseball players to high school travel players to high school student-athletes and into college athletics. Coach Marsh made several stops along the way in starting his own AAU program three different times in multiple locations with Longhorns Baseball Club at age 18, Motus Academy at age 21, and the Maine Grizzlies while working at University of Maine. Coach Marsh has also worked for the NY Nationals, Long Island Lookouts, Long Island Patriots, Long Island Prospects, Rawlings A’s Prospects and Ward Melville High School.
Coach Marsh has had experience on both sides of the recruiting process in his time coaching, He has coached over 500 youth baseball players, of which over 200 have gone on to play college baseball. During his time in running Motus Academy, the program expanded from 91 players to 238 players within three years, seeing 73 college commitments and one draft pick. During his time there he managed the athletes’ recruitment processes, developed recruitment videos, attended college visits with the athletes, built rosters, tournament schedules, practice schedules, and budgets for 16 teams, managed the website and social media account, interviewed, and hired coaches. He also directed and marketed for a tournament in which they had over 50 teams in a weekend and 15 college coaches attend. For three years he directed a showcase, which had between 50 - 85 attendees a year and 15 - 20 college coaches.
Marsh has seen 21 players that he has coached go on to play professional baseball starting with Ben Brown (Chicago Cubs -- Current Big Leaguer), who he coached for seven years. Other notable players of Marsh's include Jeremy Pena (Houston Astros -- Current Big Leaguer), Travis Honeyman (St. Louis Cardinals), Chris Bec (Toronto Blue Jays), Brandon Vicens (Chicago Cubs), Cody Laweryson (Minnesota Twins), Nick Silva (Chicago White Sox), Danny Casals (Milwaukee Brewers), Nick Sinacola (San Francisco Giants), Alex McKenney (Philadelphia Phillies), Justin Courtney (Los Angeles Angels), Matt Pushard (Miami Marlins), Ben Shields (New York Yankees), Konner Eaton (Colorado Rockies), Connor Dykstra (Seattle Mariners), Luke Johnson (Washington Nationals), Cameron Leary (Oakland Athletics), Rafe Schlesinger (Cleveland Guardians), Anthony Donofrio (Seattle Mariners), Christian Mracna (Toronto Blue Jays) and Aidan Major (Cleveland Guardians). Coach Marsh has also coached several that have gone on to play independent professional baseball including Myles Nicholson, Ian Diaz, Matt Geoffrion, Dylan Wilkinson, Tony Krueger and Nolan Lamere.
After being brought in to coach at Ward Melville High School by Lou Petrucci and Athletic Director, Pete Melore, Marsh received the Section XI League I JV Coach of the Year Award in 2017. In 2017 his club was JV League Champions and set the school record for most wins in a high school season in going 19-1. On that Ward Melville team were 31 players in 2016 and 32 players in 2017 without an assistant coach. Coach Marsh had an overall High School Record 30 – 9 in two years. Coach Marsh was also voluntarily assisting with Varsity program during the playoff season.
Marsh is originally from East Setauket, N.Y. He graduated from Loyola University of Maryland in 2015 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and a minor in Information Systems before receiving his Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Maine in 2020. He currently resides in Conway, Arkansas with his wife, Keanna Marsh and their dog, Mandy.
