Robbie McClellan (Interim)

Biography

Robbie McClellan enters his eighth season as head coach of NJIT baseball in 2026. Over that time, McClellan has compiled 151 victories and has led the program to five America East Tournaments and one NCAA Tournament in 2021. McClellan joined the NJIT coaching staff as an assistant coach in 2011-12, filling that role for seven seasons until being named to interim head coach to succeed Brian Guiliana as head coach in August 2018. Following the 2019 season, NJIT Associate Vice President/Director of Athletics Lenny Kaplan announced that McClellan was being promoted to Head Coach of the Highlanders. McClellan, who pitched in the minor leagues for three seasons after being drafted in the 12th round of the 2003 Major League Baseball June Amateur Draft by the Kansas City Royals, made a quick transition into college coaching when his playing career ended prematurely due to injury. After retiring from playing in the summer of 2007, he joined the coaching staff at Chandler Gilbert Community College in Arizona that September and was the program's pitching coach until signing on for the staff at NJIT. At Chandler Gilbert, a national-level two-year program, 27 of his pitching pupils have either moved on to NCAA Division I programs or to sign professional contracts. McClellan, himself, pitched two years at Seward County Community College in his native Kansas before moving on to the top Division I program at Arizona State, where his teammates included current major league stars Dustin Pedroi