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Steven Macias is the new Assistant Director of Athletics and Head Baseball Coach at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Macias, a Yonkers, NY resident, comes to the Mount after successful stints coaching at both Salesian High School and Lehman College. Most recently he worked as the Director of Athletics in the Haldane Central School District in Cold Spring, New York. |
“The search for a new Assistant Director of Athletics and Head Baseball Coach brought to the Mount several outstanding candidates from all over the country, any one of which would have been a great fit for this position. The fact that Steve Macias is our new Assistant Director of Athletics and Head Baseball Coach is a credit to both his credentials as a coach and administrator and to how attractive our institution and its athletics program have become. Steve’s success on the diamond at both the High School and College levels speaks for itself, and his experience as an administrator makes him the perfect fit for the Mount. I am delighted to introduce Steve Macias to the Mount Saint Vincent community .”
Macias, a resident of nearby Yonkers, New York comes to Mount Saint Vincent after spending the last two years as the Director of Athletics in the Haldane Central School District in Cold Spring, New York. There, he was responsible for nearly every facet of the Athletics program, including budgetary development and maintenance, academic support, and school and district compliance, along with his position as a Physical Education teacher. Macias said that the decision to leave Haldane was an easy one when the opportunity at Mount Saint Vincent presented itself.
“This is a dream job for me,” said Macias. “It has been a goal of mine for a long time to get back into the college coaching ranks, and when Mount Saint Vincent presented the chance to take over the baseball program and work full-time as Assistant Athletics Director, it was an opportunity I could not pass up. I am honored to take over a program that has achieved an incredible amount of success during its first two years of varsity competition, and I look forward to continuing the program’s development so that we can hopefully challenge for the Skyline Conference Championship before long.”
It was prior to Haldane where Macias earned distinction on the baseball diamond. From 1996-2004, Macias was Athletic Director, Physical Education Teacher, and Head Baseball coach at Salesian High School in New Rochelle, where he developed a powerhouse baseball program. Salesian was the CHSAA Division B Baseball Champion from 1997-2004 and advanced to win the CHSAA Division B Archdiocesan Championship five times, and the CHSAA Intersectional Championship in 1998, 1999, and 2004. At Salesian, Macias coached current Dolphins Vinny Prestopino ’08 and Jay Salute ’07.
Macias’s impressive resume includes a stint as Head Baseball Coach at Lehman College where he led the Lightning during the 1995 and 1996 seasons. Macias earned CUNYAC Coach of the Year honors in 1995 after leading Lehman to the Conference Championship, and in 1996 Lehman won the ECAC New York/New Jersey Championship.
A 1990 graduate of Cortland State, Macias earned an MS in Physical Education from Lehman in 1996 and is currently enrolled at the Bank Street College of Education where he is pursuing an MS in Leadership for Educational Change. Macias is married to the former Patty Wilkins, a 1989 graduate of Mount Saint Vincent and lives in nearby Yonkers with their children.
Macias inherits a program that has a combined record of 31-39 after two varsity seasons, including an 18-21 mark in Skyline Conference play. With nearly everyone from last year returning for the 2007 season and a solid freshman class, the Dolphins are expected to be very competitive in the Skyline Conference once again.
