NEW CASTLE —
Westminster College head baseball coach Carmen Nocera will step down following the completion of the 2012 season.
Nocera, a New Castle resident and administrator in the New Castle Area School District, spent 13 years on the Titans coaching staff.
“My son will be playing baseball at Slippery Rock,” Nocera said. “I will be a father instead of a coach and that’s OK.”
Before coaching at Westminster, Nocera was the head baseball coach at New Castle High.
“We are very appreciative of the many contributions Carmen Nocera has made to our baseball program during his long association with Westminster College," Westminster athletic director Jim Dafler said. “Although he was only a part-time member of our coaching staff, he always gave a full-time effort to the job, devoting countless hours and displaying a high energy level in all that he did. He is greatly respected by his coaching colleagues both at Westminster and in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. We will miss him and wish him and his family well."
The baseball team has compiled a 228-221-1 record since Nocera has been in the dugout. Westminster also has made the playoffs 10 of the last 13 years. Since 2004, 18 of Nocera's players have earned 24 all-PAC selections. In 2005, Nocera coached the Titans to their first Presidents’ Athletic Conference playoff berth, where they won the PAC championship and Nocera was voted PAC Coach of the Year.
“Not too many times in your life, can you work your two passions,” Nocera said. “I’m humbled that I was able to coach collegiately and be an administrator in the New Castle school system.”
The team's success continued as it has made the conference playoffs in four of the last five seasons, finishing second in the conference last year and tying the school record for second-most wins in a season (25).
Nocera’s successor who will take the reins in the 2013 season will be assistant coach Tim Mulligan. The 2012 season will make Mulligan’s second year on the staff as the team’s pitching coach. Mulligan brings 17 years of baseball coaching/recruiting experience. He has worked with the Ohio Glaciers, Paramount Scouting Bureau and the Brothers Class B 18 & Under team in Youngstown. Before coaching at Westminster, Mulligan was the pitching coach at Canfield High in Ohio.
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