ALMA MATER: SUNY Cortland '90, Lehman College (MS) '96  YEARS COACHING: 16 YEARS AT MOUNT SAINT VINCENT: First Season CAREER RECORD: 39-15 OFFICE PHONE: 718-405-3417 E-MAIL:  steve.macias@mountsaintvincent.edu   HOMETOWN: Yonkers, N.Y.

Two years after taking the field for the first time, the Mount Saint Vincent Baseball team is expected to have a breakout season in 2007 and begin their journey towards Skyline Conference prominence, and they will do so with a new Head Coach at the helm as Steve Macias was hired as the second Head Baseball Coach in Mount Saint Vincent history on August 3, 2006. Macias, a Yonkers, N.Y. resident, brings with him an impressive resume to the Mount as during stints as the Head Coach at Lehman College and Salesian High School he earned a reputation as one of the top baseball coaches in the area. Macias is also the Assistant Director of Athletics at Mount Saint Vincent.

Macias spent 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. However, his decision to leave Haldane to come to Mount Saint Vincent was based on his desire to continue working in athletics administration but also return to coaching.

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.