MUHLENBERG BASEBALL CAMPS | Head Coach & Associate Athletic Director Tod Gross

Tod Gross Summary

Career record through 2023 season: 169-197-2 (.462) in 11 seasons
Second-winningest coach in Muhlenberg baseball history
Three Centennial Conference playoffs berths
Coached 27 All-Centennial Conference selections, two CC rookies of the year and two CC scholar-athletes of the year
Teams have posted the top four fielding percentages in program history, all since 2017
Coached program's all-time leaders in hits, doubles, extra-base hits, fielding percentage, assists, saves and strikeouts

Coaching Highlights
2023 Record 16-22-1

Tied Haverford for final playoff spot after being picked eighth in Centennial Conference preseason poll
Set program record with six All-CC selections and had program's first Gold Glove of the Year
Placed two position players on the All-CC first team for the first time since 2003
Centennial Conference Gold Glove and Scholar-Athlete of the Year

2022 Record 16-21

2021 Record 7-9
2020 Record 6-6
2019 Record 20-19

Earned second straight playoff berth thanks to a season sweep of Swarthmore, at the time ranked ninth in Division III
Team set school records for doubles, extra-base hits and fielding percentage in a season

2018 Record 19-20

Led a team that was picked eighth in the CC preseason poll to a third-place finish and a playoff berth
Staff set school record for batters struck out in a season and led the CC in strikeouts per nine innings
Won Gallaudet Bison Classic
Centennial Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Earned 100th career win with 8-1 defeat of Washington College in second game of Senior Day doubleheader

2017 Record 16-21
2016 Record 18-20

Went 5-1 against teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament, ending season with doubleheader sweep of nationally ranked Johns Hopkins
Centennial Conference rookie of the year

2015 Record 14-19
• Ranked second in the Centennial Conference in home runs
2014 Record 17-20

Finished third in Centennial Conference two years after team finished in last place
First CC playoff berth in six years
Defeated future professional pitcher for first postseason win in 11 years
Ranked second in the CC in double plays turned
Centennial Conference rookie of the year

2013 Record 20-20

Led the Centennial Conference in doubles per game
Second player in program history to make all-region first team
Scored in double figures and allowed two runs or fewer in three straight games for the first time in program history

Coaching Career

2010-12 Assistant coach at Davidson University
> coached two All-Southern Conference freshman performers and two NCAA Division I Freshman All-Americans
2008-09 Assistant coach at Belmont Abbey College
> 41 wins in 2008 and NCAA Division II College World Series appearance in 2009
2006-07 Assistant coach at Guilford College
2003-05 Assistant coach at Franklin & Marshall College
> Helped 2005 team to Centennial Conference championship

Personal
Married to Shannon Gross and has two young children