Iona University Athletics

First-year assistant coach Mark Stevens joins the Coach Carey's staff after spending a season at Eastern Connecticut State University. He will serve as the team's hitting coach bringing bringing a wealth of college summer league and high school coaching and administrative experience to the program.

Owner and instructor of The Strike Zone Baseball and Training Facility in Clinton, CT, Stevens has spent the last five summers as a hitting coach in the wood bat New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL). For the last four summers, he assisted former Eastern letterwinner and assistant coach Anthony DeCicco with the Manchester Silkworms. In 2003, he served in a similar role with the (now defunct) Middletown Giants of the NECBL.

Since Stevens joined the staff, Manchester qualified for its first three NECBL playoff berths. Two summers ago, the Silkworms led the league with a .279 team batting average – 20 points higher than their nearest competitor. With Stevens in 2003, Middletown also qualified for post-season play.

Stevens’ baseball resume also includes two seasons (2004-05) as assistant coach at Division II University of Bridgeport and one season (2006) as head coach at Old Saybrook High School.