Gordon College Athletics

Rob Mansfield, a 2010 Gordon graduate and a former baseball player at Gordon, is entering his fifth season as the head coach for the Scots after spending the previous three seasons as an assistant to the program. The team has qualified for the Commonwealth Coast Conference playoffs in his first four seasons as head coach. 

The 2016 campaign will go down as the most successful season in school history. While tying the school record for wins with 19, the Scots also set the school record for batting average, hits, doubles, fielding percentage and individual career pitching victories, innings pitched and individual season triples. Gordon also placed three players on the All-CCC team and six on the All-CCC Academic team. The Fighting Scots also captured a program-record nine victories in a row, beginning in Florida before carrying over to the first three weeks of non-conference action back in Massachusetts.

In his first season at the helm, Mansfield led Gordon to their best record in conference play ever (9-6-1). The 2015 team improved upon their statistics in almost every major offensive category, increasing their batting average by 20 points; slugging percentage by 66 points; home runs by 12 and decreasing their strikeouts by 37. They placed the most players on the CCC All-Conference team in school history (six) and was awarded the Senior Scholar Athlete (Wes Arning). The Scots also placed seven players on the All-CC Academic team.

During his tenure as an assistant, Mansfield helped coach the Scots to a program-best 19 wins in the 2014 season, surpassing the previously tied mark of 16 wins met in 2013. In that same time, the Fighting Scots established 13 new individual and school records, placed eight players on the All-Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Team and one player on the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA) Team.
 
Mansfield was primarily an outfielder for the Scots while also spending some time at first and third base. He compiled a .363 on base percentage his last season and tied for third on the team in RBIs. He was a double major in business administration and communication arts.

In addition to his contributions on the diamond at Gordon, Mansfield had worked for the past four years as an admissions counselor, athletics recruiter, and associate director of admissions for the College.

Outside of Gordon, he served as a head coach in the Myrtle Beach Collegiate Baseball League in the summer of 2014. He has also interned with the Lakewood BlueClaws, a Low-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies, and was an instructor in Mike Condon's School of Baseball in New Jersey.

"I am thrilled for our baseball program and our department to have Coach Mansfield join us as a full time head coach," said Director of Athletics Jon Tymann. "He has been a significant part of our forward progress in the past four years through his dual roles in admissions and as an assistant coach. We expect the positive momentum to continue in this new role as he builds upon the quality foundation that Coach Rypel started."
 
A native of Wall, N.J., Rob and his wife Krista, an alumna of the College and a third grade teacher in Saugus, currently reside in Beverly, Mass.