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This is the Home Page of Coach Rich Martin. Coach Martin is currently the Head Baseball Coach of Ramapo College of New Jersey and Owner/Director of Rich Martin's All Star Baseball Camp |
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| Rich Martin enters his sixth year as Head Coach of the Roadrunner Baseball program. Coach Martin brings a wealth of baseball experience and a long history of baseball tradition with him to the Mahwah campus. He holds an impressive 350-288-1 overall coaching record (.547 winning percentage) and for seven years, served as Head Baseball Coach at Division I, Hofstra University where he stands as the winningest coach in the history of the University. In 1993 he led his team to the East Coast Conference Championship and in 1995 recorded a school-best 27 victories and notched his 200th career victory. The following year, his team led the North Atlantic Conference in batting, home runs and runs scored. He also coached 39 players who signed professional baseball contracts and graduated 93% of his players at the university. After the 2002 season senior Shaun Burstein signed a contract with the St. Louis Cardinals and senior Jason Valloni with the New Jersey Jackals. Other players who have played at Ramapo and signed professional contracts include Jefferson Infante, Ramon Diaz and Justin Ottman. Prior to his time at Hofstra, Coach Martin spent five years as Head Coach at Dominican College in Orangeburg, NY. At Dominican, Coach Martin developed the program from its inception to the point where it became NAIA District 31 champions and Region 8 runner-up for four straight years. For his efforts and achievements, Coach Martin was named the NAIA District 31 Coach of the Year in 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989 and was a finalist for the NAIA National Coach of the Year in 1986, 1988 and 1989. While at Dominican, Martin produced four NAIA All-Americans, 21 NAIA Honorable Mention All-Americans, 36 All-District 31 and All-Region 8 players. Before his time at Dominican, Martin served as Assistant Varsity Baseball Coach at New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, NY from 1972-73. He then coached the varsity basketball team at Bishop Loughlin High School, also in Brooklyn for two seasons and the junior varsity basketball team for three seasons. In 1977 he also took over the head coaching duties of the varsity baseball team, a position he held until 1984. Coach Martin also spends his time as the owner and director for the Rich Martin All-Star Baseball Camp, which he started in 1980. Coach Martin's camp is nationally recognized as the standard for teaching the game of baseball to young people. The camp is run annually for boys ages 7-17 while some of the greatest names in baseball attend weekly to act as instructors including, Tommy LaSorda, Al Leiter, Keith Hernandez, Mariano Rivera, Cliff Floyd and David Cone. In the summer of 2006, Ramapo College will have the pleasure of hosting Coach Martin's camp for the sixth time. Martin, who holds a bachelor's degree (1982) from Brooklyn College, also served as Youth Services Coordinator for the Office of the Mayor for the City of New York from 1980 to 1990. |
The team opened their season at the Clearwater Invitational in Florida where they posted an 8-2 record for the week. They opened with a five game win streak including a 12-9 and 4-1 double header sweep over Westfield State. They went on to drop Babson, 8-7 in ten innings before adding a second double header sweep over Keene State, 11-2 and 3-0. Ramapo suffered their first loss of the year, 5-11 to Salisbury but bounced back to beat Union, 9-0 and 7-6. They wrapped up the week splitting with Adolphus, 12-11 and 8-13. Traveling back to New Jersey with eight wins under their belt, Ramapo suffered three straight loses, to St. Joseph, 6-10 and 1-4 and William Paterson, 4-7. They posted their ninth win of the season as they shutout Mount St. Vincent, 6-0. Falling to NJAC rival Montclair State 11-20, Ramapo squeaked a conference match-up against Rutgers Newark, 7-6. The team split a double header with Richard Stockton, 10-8 and 1-7 before matching up with then nationally ranked #1 Rowan University. The Roadrunners grabbed a 10-7 win before falling 6-18 in game two. They fell short in a non-conference match-up to FDU, 1-17 and recorded a 19-2 victory over The College of Staten Island before dropping NJAC rival Montclair State at home, 13-8 improving their overall record to 14-9 and 3-3 in the conference. The Roadrunners then lost a key NJAC match-up to Rutgers Newark, 3-4, the start of a bumpy road. They lost a non-conference double header to Keystone, 1-14 and 1-7, and one game verse Drew University, 5-8 before falling to NJAC opponent Kean University, 1-9. On the road against The College of NJ they lost the double header 4-12 and 4-9. In a key NJAC match-up against William Paterson, Ramapo avenged their early season loss to the Pioneers, winning in dramatic fashion, 5-4 in the bottom of the 9th. They fell to Kean University, 2-19 and Rutgers Camden, 5-11 and 1-3, before finishing the season with a 6-0 shut out victory over College of Staten Island that was recorded as Coach Martin’s 350th career collegiate win. OUR 25TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR WILL FEATURE BEAUTIFUL DORMS AT RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FEATURING AIR CONDITIONING, PHONE, REFRIGERATOR/FREEZER,COMPUTER LINE,CABLE TV LINE AND PRIVATE BATHROOMS IN EVERY ROOM. OUR DORMS WILL BE CLOSE TO THE DINING HALL AND PLAYING FIELDS. OUR DORMS WILL ALSO FEATURE A FULL SERVICE CAMPERS LOUNGE WHICH WILL HOUSE A SNACK BAR, VIDEO GAMES, POOL TABLE, PING PONG, ETC, MOVIES, TV AND SPECIAL EVENTS. SEE YOU THIS SUMMER. COACH MARTIN |
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