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“From that early age, I believed I was destined to do something in baseball, and by the time I was about ten, I had grown up in a dugout and wanted to do nothing but play baseball,” Mamula said. “I was fortunate that I grew up in a generation where we still played wiffleball in the backyard and pick-up football and basketball and rode bikes, but baseball was always my favorite.”

For Mamula, who began his first year as the new head baseball coach at the University of Delaware this season, his love of baseball has been a nearly life-long journey that took him from the ballfield at DuBois Area Senior High School to a four-year career at St. Bonaventure and then over the last two decades through the collegiate coaching ranks, with stops at Division II and Division I schools.

After beginning his coaching career as an assistant coach at Division II Shippensburg University from 1999-2001, Mamula served as an assistant coach at Delaware under long-time head coach Jim Sherman from 2002-06. During his five recruiting classes at UD, Mamula helped recruit 20 All-Conference players, two All-Americans, and saw 13 of his recruits later selected in the MLB Draft. He got his first head coaching job at West Chester University from 200709, where he guided the Golden Rams to an average of 41 wins per season, was named PSAC East Coach of the Year and Atlantic Region Coach of the Year in 2009, when WCU reached the D-II College World Series and finished the year ranked seventh in the nation.

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