Griffin adds Novick and Starkey to baseball staff
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Carson-Newman baseball coach Tom Griffin announced a pair of new coaches for the upcoming 2021 season Wednesday afternoon. Tom Novick and Jake Starkey were named assistants to oversee the pitching staff and hitters respectively.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Carson-Newman baseball coach Tom Griffin announced a pair of new coaches for the upcoming 2021 season Wednesday afternoon. Tom Novick and Jake Starkey were named assistants to oversee the pitching staff and hitters respectively.
Novick is entering his first year of collegiate coaching coming to Carson-Newman after finishing up his playing career at Southern New Hampshire University. The Sudbury, Mass. pitched for the Penmen as a graduate student during the 2019 and 2020 seasons fanning nearly 10 batters per nine innings. In 2019 he was part of a pitching staff that led Division II in ERA (2.71) and won the East Regional before falling in a super regional. The club went a combined 52-19 during his two seasons in The Granite State.
Prior to joining SNHU's pitching staff Novick received his bachelor's degree in finance from the University of San Diego where he was the president of club team and an all-region player for the Toreros.
In the four years leading up to his time at Mossy Creek, Novick also has coached for several collegiate summer ball teams and worked as an intern at Cressey Sports Performance as a pitching coach for their Elite Summer Development Program (2017). In 2018 he was part of the Jupiter Wave pitching staff while also working with the pitchers as the assistant pitching director in the Collegiate League of the Palm Beaches. A year later, Novick was the pitching coach for the Riverhead Tomcats and helped the team to a league leading 3.28 ERA and a finals appearance of the Hamptons Collegiate League.
Jake Starkey brings a year of coaching experience to Jefferson City after volunteering at Eureka College. After starring at Monmouth in the outfield, the Morton, Ill. Native will helps the Eagles outfielders and hitters.
A two-sport athlete at Monmouth College in Illinois, Starkey played football and baseball. The Fighting Scots competed in two conference tournaments and punched a ticket into the Division III NCAA Regional Tournament. The Scots also competed in two conference championships and earned a NCAA berth to the Division III college football playoffs during his playing years. Jake earned first-team all-conference honors third-team all-region as a utility player. Offensively, Starkey ranks in the top ten of nine different career categories at Monmouth: at-bats (1st), games played (1st) stolen bases (3rd), walks (3rd), runs scored (6th), hits (4th), triples (9th), total bases (10th). On the rubber, he left Monmouth as the all-time career saves leader tallying 10.
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