Greg Mamula

After six years at the University of Cincinnati from 2010 to 2013, Mamula spent seven years at Florida Atlantic University (2016 to 2022), where during his tenure he saw the teams reach the NCAA Regional tournament three times and was named the 2019 Conference USA Assistant Coach of the Year.

‘Delaware Baseball is surely in good hands’

“I had waited a long time for the opportunity to be a head coach again,” Mamula said.

“When I made the decision to leave West Chester after three seasons to become an assistant at Cincinnati, I kept believing that I would get an opportunity not only to be a Division I head coach, but a successful one.”

“We are extremely excited to have Greg join Delaware as our next head baseball coach,” said Chrissi Rawak, UD’s director of Athletics and Recreation Services. “He is a proven winner and a talented recruiter with strong connections to the East Coast. Equally as important, he is a terrific person and has been instrumental in developing young men in the classroom and on the field.”

“I’m very excited for Greg Mamula to be the next head coach of Delaware Baseball,” Sherman said of Mamula. “He is extremely hard-working and as committed a coach as I’ve ever had. Greg’s baseball knowledge is outstanding and he’s the complete package. He has a very calming personality and is a real players’ type of coach.

“Delaware Baseball is surely in good hands.”

Dominant and crafty, Greenly has not surrendered a single hit to Charleston over the first four innings, while being the beneficiary of offensive support. Second baseman Dan

Covino triples in the first and scores on Greenly’s sacrifice fly, and right fielder Brett Lesher crushes a three-run homer to left in the third that gives Greenly a 4-0 cushion. In the stands, behind parkas and glove-cupped hands, fans offer encouragement and strategy to the Blue Hen players and refer to them by their first names, as if they are members of the same family.

A culture of winning

Over the last 50 years of Blue Hens baseball, the program has become known for its many conference championships, its post-season appearances in the NCAA tournament, for the number of players (more than 80) who have been drafted by Major League teams and by the number of former Blue Hens (more than one dozen) who have played – and continue to play -- at the Major League level. Much the way the school’s football program was shaped and molded by the triumphant legacy begun by coaches Bill Murray, David Nelson and “Tubby” Raymond, the modern Blue Hen baseball program was constructed by head coaches Bob Hannah (1965-2000) and Sherman (2000-2022).

For most of the last decade, however, the program has hovered around the .500 mark and often finished in the middle of the pack in the Colonial Athletic Association.

It’s a fixable problem, Mamula said, pointing to two remedies: effective recruiting and finding players who truly love to play baseball.

“Winning breeds winning and confidence breeds confidence,” he said. “It’s our responsibility to dig deeper and find those players who wish to be a part of a winning program. I am trying to cultivate a culture of winning here, and

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