Pat Mason

Pat Mason

Mason in 2014
Sport(s) Baseball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Virginia Tech
Record 21–31 (.404)
Playing career
1994–1997 Northeastern
Position(s) Catcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2000–2003
2004
2005–2010
2011–2013
2014–Present
Boston College (asst.)
Framingham State (asst.)
Northeastern (asst.)
Virginia Tech (asst.)
Virginia Tech
Head coaching record
Overall 21–31 (.404)

Pat Mason is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies baseball team. He will coach his second season with the Hokies in 2015.[1][2][3][4][5]

Mason was a catcher for Northeastern for four years, before a brief minor league career. He helped lead the Huskies to a pair of conference titles in 1994 and 1997. He then earned an assistant coaching position at Boston College, his first position under Pete Hughes. After four season with the Eagles, he spent one year at Framingham State before returning to his alma mater for six seasons. Mason was reunited with Hughes at Virginia Tech in 2011, earning the Associate Head Coach position in 2012. Following Hughes' departure for Oklahoma following the Hokies' first-ever selection as a regional host in 2013, Mason was promoted to head coach.

Head coaching records

The following is a table of Mason's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.[6]

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Virginia Tech Hokies (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2014–present)
2014 Virginia Tech 21–31 9–21 7th (Coastal)
2015 Virginia Tech 0–0 0–0
Virginia Tech: 21–31 9–21
Total: 21–31

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

See also

References

  1. "Patrick Mason bio". Virginia Tech Hokies. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  2. Mike Barber (June 28, 2013). "Tech turns to assistant to lead baseball program". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  3. Frank Arena (July 1, 2013). "Franklin's Mason named Va. Tech's head baseball coach". MetroWest Daily News. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  4. Norm Wood (July 15, 2013). "Mason rises to Virginia Tech's head baseball job from humble New England roots". Daily Press. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  5. Hank Kurz, Jr. (June 27, 2013). "Pete Hughes leaves for OU; Patrick Mason in as Virginia Tech baseball coach". Washington Times. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  6. "2014 Atlantic Coast Conference Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy and Cynthia Mills. Archived from the original on June 3, 2014. Retrieved June 3, 2014.