Gettysburg College Athletics

AT A GLANCE

• Named head coach prior to the 2023 season (Three seasons as head coach)
• 2010 graduate of Gettysburg
• 10 years experience as college head coach
• 2023 team set program record for runs (312), RBIs (271) and walks (199)
• 2024 team reset the record for runs (317), walks (271) and stolen bases (124)
• 2024 team had best start in program history, highest national ranking, reached 30 wins and reset numerous records

AT GETTYSBURG

Beddick completed his third season in 2025 after returning to his alma mater in 2023 to become just the sixth skipper to lead the Bullets’ baseball program since 1913. Over his three seasons, he guided the Bullets to a 65-56 mark, including the program’s first 30-win season since 2014.

In his first season leading Gettysburg, the Bullets had their most offensive season in program history establishing records for runs scored (312) and runs batted in (271). Gettysburg also drew the most walks with 199 and had its best on-base percentage as a team since 2012 at .404.

The offensive numbers continued to fall in his second season, bettering the previous mark for runs (317) and walks (271) while also stealing 124 bases as a team. Two of Beddick’s four all-conference selections in 2024 etched their names in the annals. David Preziuso stole a record 44 bases while Alex Wilkie-Viscio paced Division III in walks per nine (0.31) and strikeout-to-walk ratio (19.00), walking just two while striking out 38 in 58 1/3 innings.

In 2025, Gettysburg appeared in the Centennial Conference tournament for the first time since 2017. The squad had the best start in program history with a 15-0 record and rose as high as No. 13 in the D3baseball.com national rankings for the highest national ranking in program history. His teams set the program record for runs scored in each of his years at the helm. His squads also reset the record for walks, RBIs and stolen bases in a single season. Many of his players also established program marks for individual season and career records, including Jack Pistner setting the record for single-season and career home runs as well as RBIs in a single season and career. The offense was consistently among the national leaders in walks drawn, on-base percentage and runs scored.

PRIOR TO GETTYSBURG

Beddick served the previous five seasons as the head coach at Centennial Conference (CC)-foe Washington College. Prior to that, he started the baseball program at Hood College, serving as head coach from 2013-17.

Beddick led Washington to five winning seasons in his five years at the helm, compiling an overall record of 104-57 for a .646 winning percentage. His 2019 Shoremen team opened the season with a program-record 14-game winning streak and finished the year tying the program record for wins in a season, posting a record of 28-12 and one game out of a CC tournament spot. The squad also beat Salisbury and Swarthmore, a pair of nationally ranked teams.

In 2022, Washington finished third in the conference standings and claimed a playoff berth for the first time since 2012. He mentored six players to all-conference accolades – the most in program history – and the conference’s Pitcher of the Year in first-year player Joe Morrissey – the first Shoreman to earn the honor since 1994. Morrissey went on to be named a first-team all-region player the D3Baseball.com Region 5 Rookie of the Year.

Prior to Washington, Beddick started the Blazers’ program and turned them into a competitive team in just three seasons. He was named the 2016 MAC Commonwealth Coach of the Year. Beddick was hired at Hood in the summer of 2013 to begin recruiting for the Blazers’ inaugural season of 2015. That initial season featured a roster of 37 student-athletes and posted a respectable first-year record of 14-25. One of his players was named the MAC Commonwealth and Mid-Atlantic Region Rookie of the Year and was chosen for the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) all-region team and the D3Baseball.com All-America team.

He also held numerous administrative roles at Washington, including as an Assistant Athletics Director for the last year, as the compliance director since 2019, and as the admissions liaison for athletics since 2018.

In just three seasons under Beddick, Hood baseball student-athletes won a total of 13 All-MAC Commonwealth honors, including five first-team honors. In addition to his success recruiting to a new program, Beddick fundraised more than $70,000 to support a program without an alumni base. He started his time at Hood as a part-time head coach and also served as an admissions counselor for two years before moving into the athletic department in a full-time role in the summer of 2016, picking up duties as an Assistant Director of Athletics and NCAA Compliance Coordinator. He was awarded Hood’s Dr. Henry P. and Page Laughlin Administrative Achievement Award, given for “noteworthy service to staff members who have made significant contributions to the College” in April 2016. He also served as the chair of the MAC Commonwealth baseball committee.

Prior to his time at Hood, Beddick spent two seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Penn State-Behrend, helping that program to a 59-27-1 record and an Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship. His first assistant coaching position came with the Bullets, where he worked with hitters and position players for the 2011 season.

OTHER EXPERIENCES

Beddick was also a certified Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association basketball official for 10 years.

PLAYING DAYS

He earned his bachelor of arts in political science with a minor in history in 2010. He earned an MBA from Penn State-Behrend in May 2013.