COACHING STAFF on Cohen’s 2006 and 2007 baseball staffs at the University of Kentucky, where he worked extensively with the UK ou ielding corps and with Wildcat hi ers. During that span, Kentucky won 78 games, set or reestablished 12 team marks and set a school mark with 44 wins en route to capturing the school’s first SEC championship in 2006. While serving on coach Bobby Moranda’s baseball staff at Western Carolina University, Mingione was recrui ng coordinator and hi ng coach, helping direct a Catamount team that in 2008 earned top 40 na onal ranking among 286 NCAA Division I programs in 11 different offensive categories. A na ve of Tarrytown, N.Y., Mingione grew up in Florida and played high school baseball for coach Sco Jones at Mariner High School in Cape Coral, Fla. He con nued his baseball career and was a standout ou ielder for four years at Embry-Riddle University in Daytona Beach, Fla., where he played for coaches Greg and Todd Guilliams. He earned a bachelor’s degree in aerospace studies with a triple minor in business, psychology and humani es in 2000. Upon gradua on, Mingione served two years as assistant dean of students and as an assistant coach on Steve Larsen’s baseball staff at Mariner High School. Mingione then moved on to coach on the collegiate level, first as a volunteer assistant baseball coach under Dave Tollet Nick Mingione, who joined the Mississippi State baseball at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Fla., in 2002, and later at his alma mater, Emfamily in June 2008, is in bry-Riddle. The Eagles caphis fi h year on the DiaThe file tured Florida Sun Confermond Dog baseball staff ence crowns and advanced and his first as an assistant Birth date: September 10, 1978 to the NAIA World Series in coach in 2012-13. The afBirth place: Tarrytown, N.Y. Lewiston, Idaho, all three fable 12-year coaching Wife: Christen (Reeves) of Meridian, Miss. seasons, earning na onal veteran served for four runner-up honors in 2005. years as the coordinator of High School: Cape Coral (Fla.) Mariner High School, 1996 During 11 seasons Mississippi State’s popular Undergraduate: Embry-Riddle, 2000 (aerospace studies) coaching on the collegiate summer and winter baselevel, Mingione, 34, has ball camps and as a volunHigh School: Cape Coral Mariner High School, 1993-96 helped direct teams to four teer assistant coach prior College: Embry-Riddle College, 1997-2000 conference crowns, three to assuming his current advancements to the NAIA posi on following the 2012 Ini al Kenneth J. Sliwa Memorial Scholarship (Embry-Riddle, 1997) World Series, a conference campaign. tournament tle and three Mingione coaches 2001:: Mariner High School (assistant coach) 2001 NCAA regional tournament the Bulldogs’ ou ielders, 2002:: Florida Gulf Coast University (volunteer assistant) 2002 berths, including Missisfirst basemen and hi ers 2003-05:: Embry-Riddle University (assistant coach) 2003-05 sippi State’s back-to-back and on game day serves as 2006-07:: University of Kentucky (volunteer assistant coach) 2006-07 NCAA tournament appearMSU’s third base coach. He 2008: 2008 : Western Carolina University (asst. coach/recrui ng coordinator) ances in 2011 and 2012. will also help coordinate 2009-12:: Mississippi State University (coordinator of camps) 2009-12 Addi onally, six of the Mississippi State’s recruit2013:: Mississippi State University (assistant coach) 2013 last seven recrui ng classing efforts and con nue working with the opera on of the Mississippi State baseball es with which Mingione has been associated and three of the camps programs he has developed and expanded in recent years. four at Mississippi State have earned na onal ranking. Mingione, is married to the former Christen Reeves of MeThis is Mingione’s second coaching affilia on with MSU skipper John Cohen. Mingione, who worked as an assistant coach in ridian, Miss. 2008 at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., served
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The 2013 Mississippi State University baseball staff (from left): camps coordinator Jake Wells, assistant strength coach Greg Drye, assistant coach Nick Mingione, head coach John Cohen, associate head coach Butch Thompson, and operations director Tyler Bratton.
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