Bio

Shawn Manfredo (Head Coach; 5th Season 43-69)

Shawn enters his fifth season as the head coach of the Fitchburg Staet baseball team for the 2023-24 season.

This past season, Shawn led the Green and Gold to 19-21 overall record and a 9-12 clip within conference play as the Falcons garnered the sixth seed in the MASCAC Baseball post-season tournament. During the season, Manfredo led the team to set a new single season program record for stolen base (101), while seeing one player achieve selected to the ABCA/Rawlings DIII All-Region First Team, two players named to the D3 Baseball.Com All-Region Team and three players earn MASCAC All-Conference accolades.

During the 2021 campaign, Manfredo guided the Falcons to an overall record of 11-12 and a 7-3 mark in MASCAC play, en-route to guiding the Green and Gold to it's first ever regular season conference title.

Formally the Associate Head Baseball Coach, Recruiting Coordinator, and Pitching Coach at UMass Dartmouth.  Coach Manfredo’s pitching staff received national recognition as one of the top groups in the country.  During his tenure the pitchers broke and rebroke the school record for Earned Run Average (ERA) setting the new mark in 2018.  The UMass Dartmouth pitching staff led the conference in ERA in 2016 and 2018 the first two times in school history.   In 2018 junior pitcher Matt Cronin was named 1st Team All-American by both the American Baseball Coaches Association and D3baseball.com, also winning New England Pitcher of the Year by both publications.  In addition to Cronin, Nick Fuller and Sean Callahan went onto pitch professionally during Manfredo’s time at UMass Dartmouth.  

Manfredo has helped recruit and develop 22 players who have made the All-Conference team, and 26 All-Academic team student-athletes.  

Manfredo spent 5 summers coaching in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League for the Hyannis Harbor Hawks working with many of the top collegiate prospects in the country.  During that time, he assisted with pitchers, infielders, coached first base. In 2015, following a Western Division Championship, he was nominated and elected to the Hyannis Harbor Hawks Board of Directors to assist the team and organization off the field in addition to coaching duties.  

He studied at Colby-Sawyer College and Plymouth State University, and was a member on both baseball teams. He co-founded Showcase League Baseball following his graduation from Plymouth State with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. Although it started in New Hampshire, it has since grown to New England, with 13 players being drafted by Major League Baseball.