John Delaney
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamQuinnipiac
ConferenceMAAC
Record179–240 (.427)
Biographical details
Born (1985-12-30) December 30, 1985
Hanson, Massachusetts
Alma materXaverian Brothers High School
Quinnipiac, B.A.
Playing career
2005–2008Quinnipiac
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2011Sacred Heart (asst.)
2012Hartford (asst.)
2013–2014Quinnipiac (asst.)
2015–presentQuinnipiac
Head coaching record
Overall179–240 (.427)
TournamentsNCAA: 1–2
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
  • MAAC (2019)
  • MAAC Tournament (2019)
Awards
  • MAAC Coach of the Year (2018)

John Delaney (born December 30, 1985) is an American college baseball coach who was named Quinnipiac's head coach prior to the start of the 2015 season. A Quinnipiac alumnus, Delaney played minor league baseball in the Milwaukee Brewers system before starting his coaching career.[1]

Playing career

Delaney attended Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts, where he won a state baseball championship in 2004. Delaney played college baseball at Quinnipiac from 2005 to 2008. He was named an all-Northeast Conference player each year. In 2008, the Milwaukee Brewers selected him in the 25th round of the Major League Baseball Draft. He spent 2008 and 2009 in Milwaukee's minor league system, advancing as high as Class-A Wisconsin. He played independent league baseball in 2010 before retiring.[2][3][4][5]

Coaching career

He began his coaching career as an assistant at Sacred Heart in 2011 under head coach Nick Giaquinto. That year, the Pioneers won the NEC tournament to advance to their second NCAA tournament, where they went 0–2. Delaney spent 2012 as an assistant at Hartford under first-year head coach Justin Blood.[1]

Delaney joined Quinnipiac's staff as an assistant for the 2013 season. In 2014, Quinnipiac promoted Delaney to associate head coach and named him the successor of head coach Dan Gooley, who announced that he would retire after the season.[5][6][7]

In 2015, Delaney's first season as head coach, Quinnipiac made its second straight playoff appearance with a 15–9, third-place showing in the MAAC. It was the Bobcats' highest regular-season finish since sharing the NEC regular-season title in 2007. In the MAAC Tournament, Quinnipiac won its first two games against #6 Marist and #2 Canisius before bowing out after losses to Siena and Canisius. The team placed a league-high five players on the all-MAAC First Team.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Quinnipiac (MAAC) (2015–present)
2015 Quinnipiac 29–2715–93rdMAAC tournament
2016 Quinnipiac 21–3110–14T-8th
2017 Quinnipiac 18–3211–13T-8th
2018 Quinnipiac 26–3016–82ndMAAC tournament
2019 Quinnipiac 30–2917–7T-1stNCAA Regional
2020 Quinnipiac 3–110–0Season canceled due to COVID-19
2021 Quinnipiac 7–217–219th
2022 Quinnipiac 15–338–15T-8th
2023 Quinnipiac 30–2616–8T-3rdMAAC tournament
Total:179–240 (.427)

      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

References

  1. 1 2 "John Delaney". QuinnipiacBobcats.com. Quinnipiac Sports Information. Archived from the original on July 16, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ "John Delaney". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ Johnson, John R. (June 7, 2008). "Baseball Draft: Curran, Delaney, Savastano Selected". EnterpriseNews.com. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ Johnson, John R. (June 7, 2008). "Delaney Knows What It Takes". PatriotLedger.com. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Former Xaverian Baseball Star John Delaney Hired as an Assistant at Quinnipiac". BostonHerald.com. July 19, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
  6. ↑ Malafronte, Chip (May 11, 2014). "Quinnipiac Baseball Coach Dan Gooley Built More than a Legacy". NHRegister.com. New Haven Register. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
  7. ↑ Anthony, Mike (May 16, 2014). "Gooley Stepping Down at Quinnipiac". Courant.com. The Hartford Courant. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
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