HOBOKEN, N.J. (August 16, 2013) – Stevens Institute of Technology Director of Athletics, Russell Rogers, and head baseball coach, Kristaps Aldins, announced the hiring of Arlan Freeman as the team's top assistant coach for the upcoming 2013-14 academic school year. Freeman will begin immediately at Stevens and will serve as the team's pitching coach and recruiting coordinator.
"I am excited to welcome Coach Freeman to our baseball family here at Stevens" said Aldins. "I am looking forward to seeing him help our players reach their potential both on and off the field. He is a very talented pitching coach and an even better person."
Before accepting the position at Castle Point, Freeman was the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Division II Felician College in Rutherford, N.J. In his one season at Felician in 2013, the Golden Falcons pitching staff recorded 400 strikeouts in 463 innings pitched. Freeman mentored six hurlers who posted sub-4.00 earned run averages in at least 12 appearances.
Prior to his stint at Felician, Freeman was an assistant at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. in 2011-12 and Barry University in Miami Shores, Fla. from 2008-11. During his time in Florida, Freeman was part of three teams that reached the South Regional Tournament, and in 2008, Barry reached the No. 1 spot in the national poll. Freeman began his coaching career in Biddeford, Maine at the University of New England in 2007.
Over the past two summers, Freeman has been the head coach for the D.C. Grays of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League. He owns a 41-42 overall mark as the manager of the Grays and amassed 23 wins this summer.
Freeman also honed his coaching craft in the prestigious and Cape Cod Baseball League in 2008-09 as a pitching coach for the Chatham Anglers. He also had a one-year stint in Covington, Va. coaching the Lumberjacks that compete in the Valley Collegiate Baseball League, helping the team to the playoffs.
He holds a master's degree in Sports Management from Barry University which he obtained in 2011 and earned his bachelor's in Physical Education at Plymouth State University in 2001.
