Saint Mary's College of California Baseball

Eric Valenzuela enters his ninth season overall at Saint Mary's in 2026 and his third in his second stint since returning to Moraga in 2024. Valenzuela left ...

Alex Greiner joined the Gaels athletics department in July of 2025 as the Assistant Director of Sports Performance. Along with his new role, Alex currently works as a Golf Performance Coach at Perform For Golf in El Cerrito, where he creates specialized exercise programs for golfers of all ages and levels. Prior to this, Alex worked as a Strength and Conditioning intern at Saint Mary's from 2024 to 2025. Alex received his Master of Science in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology in 2023 from the University of Florida and his Bachelor's of Science in Criminology in 2013 from Fresno State. Alex works with the Saint Mary's women's soccer, men's cross country, rowing, tennis and baseball programs.

Andrew Shebloski joined the Saint Mary’s baseball staff in 2025 as an assistant coach after spending the previous two seasons as an assistant at Willamette U...

Daniel Costanza joined the Saint Mary's baseball coaching staff in 2024 after serving as the lead assistant for Eric Valenzuela at Long Beach State. Costanza...

Daniel Molinari joined the Gaels coaching staff in 2024 after spending two years as the catching coach at Cañada College under head coach Tony Lucca. In those two seasons, each year’s starting catcher transferred on to NCAA programs on a scholarship after their time at Cañada College, including a backstop that led the North Coast Conference in runners thrown out. Last season, Molinari led another stellar catching group for the Gaels including true freshman Ian Armstrong. Armstrong won over the starting job after the first two weeks of the season with both his offensive and defensive ability. The El Granada native finished the season with .364 batting average, 55 hits, five home runs and 40 RBI helping anchor the bottom of the batting order for Saint Mary's. Defensivley, Armstrong also threw out eleven runners and finished the 2025 season with a .992 fielding percentage. Armstrong went on to be named to the All-WCC Second Team and WCCAll-Freshman team, the second consecutive season the Gaels have had a freshman catches named to the team. In his first season as a Gael, Molinari worked with true freshman catcher, Connor "Bear" Harrison, and helped him earn a spot on the WCC All-Freshman Team with a .322 batting average and a .990 fielding percentage. Harrison led the team and threw out nine runners during the 2024 season to rank inside the top-10 in the conference. Senior Nathan Chong also saw time behind the dish and belted a career high 13 home runs with a .270 average. The Pa

Jack Meggs joined the Gaels coaching staff in 2023 and was promoted to Associate Head Coach in 2025. Meggs brings an offensive emphasis to the Saint Mary's baseball program and has played a big role in the team's improvement at the plate over the last three seasons. Most recently in 2025, Saint Mary's led the West Coast Conference in batting average (.299), hits (628), runs (471), RBI (419), on-base percentage (.392), slugging percentage (.480) and second in home runs (81). The Gaels were one of the top offenses on the west coast and it led to their second WCC Tournament Championship in program history after they knocked off San Diego in Las Vegas. In 2024, Meggs helped develop some of the best power hitters in Saint Mary's history including home run king Christian Almanza. Almanza broke the single-season and career home run records, belting 24 during the 2024 season and finishing his SMC career with 47. Almanza was also named the 2023 WCC Co-Player of the Year and was awarded All-WCC First Team in 2024. As a team, Saint Mary's set their single-season home run record with 103, leading the WCC and ranking 29th in all of Division I. In his first season with Saint Mary's in 2023, Meggs improved the team's batting average from .235 in 2022 to .267 and broke the single-season home run record at the time with 76. Christian Almanza and Coleman Schmidt led the team with 16 each while Bill Ralston hit ten of hiw own to contribute to the record breaking season for the Gaels. Prior to j

Katelyn Watts joins the Saint Mary's sports medicine team as an Assistant Athletic Trainer for the 2023-24 athletic year. She is responsible for the Saint Mary's baseball and golf programs. Katelyn spent the past three years as the Head Athletic Trainer at Cupertino High School. On top of her typical athletic training duties, Katelyn also helped guide the Cupertino athletic training department through the pandemic, and even developed the Fremont Union High School District COVID-19 policies and procedures for athletic trainers. Prior to her time at Cupertino, Katelyn served as a Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer at Texas A&M Kingsville, while enrolled in their Master's of Kinesiology program. There, she served as the lead athletic trainer for the beach volleyball program, as well as an assistant trainer for the football program. During her time in Texas, Katelyn also served as a Contracted Head Athletic Trainer at Santa Gertrudis Academy High School. Watts received a pair of bachelors degrees from Brock University (physical education) and Sheridan College (athletic training). During her time in undergrad, she interned for the Brampton Beast of the ECHL and the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL.

Tanner Cunha joined the Saint Mary’s baseball coaching staff as the Director of Player Development in the fall of 2025. Cunha was most recently an assistant ...