Dean Ehehalt
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamMonmouth
ConferenceCAA
Record759–713–3
Biographical details
Born (1964-09-10) September 10, 1964 (age 59)
Middletown Township, New Jersey
Playing career
1984–1985Brookdale
1986–1987East Carolina
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1988East Carolina (Asst.)
1989Princeton (Asst.)
1991Kennesaw State (Asst.)
1992–1993Upsala
1994–presentMonmouth
Head coaching record
Overall780–751–3
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
  • MAAC regular season (2018)
Awards
Northeast Conference Coach of the Year: 1996, 2002, 2005

Dean Ehehalt (born September 10, 1964) is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Monmouth Hawks baseball team. He was named to that position prior to the 1994 season.[1][2][3][4]

Raised in Middletown Township, New Jersey, Ehehalt played baseball at Middletown High School North.[5]

Ehehalt played two seasons at Brookdale Community College before completing his career at East Carolina. He spent one season as a graduate assistant with the Pirates before one season as an assistant at Princeton. He returned for one year to complete a master's at East Carolina in 1990, then spent a season as an assistant at Kennesaw State. In 1992, he earned his first head coaching job and helped engineer a turnaround at Upsala. After two seasons, he became head coach at Monmouth. In his time with the Hawks, he has led the team to eight league regular season titles, 16 twenty-win seasons and 6 thirty-win campaigns.

Together with his wife and daughter, Ehehalt has been a resident of Wall Township, New Jersey.[6]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Upsala (Middle Atlantic Conference) (1992–1993)
1992 Upsala 5–22 2–8
1993 Upsala 16–16
Upsala: 21–38 2–8
Monmouth (Northeast Conference) (1994–2013)
1994 Monmouth 13–23
1995 Monmouth 19–33
1996 Monmouth 25–22
1997 Monmouth 23–25
1998 Monmouth 30–21 NCAA Regional
1999 Monmouth 26–24 NCAA Regional
2000 Monmouth 25–27
2001 Monmouth 29–24
2002 Monmouth 30–21
2003 Monmouth 24–27
2004 Monmouth 22–29–1
2005 Monmouth 30–24
2006 Monmouth 27–22
2007 Monmouth 36–24 NCAA Regional
2008 Monmouth 37–16
2009 Monmouth 32–25 15–11 NCAA Regional
2010 Monmouth 22–27
2011 Monmouth 36–19
2012 Monmouth 25–24 21–11 2nd (9) NEC tournament[a]
2013 Monmouth 30–24–1 19–11–1 3rd (9) NEC tournament[b]
Monmouth: 55–33–1
Monmouth (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) (2014–2022)
2014 Monmouth 24–25 14–12 4th MAAC tournament
2015 Monmouth 22–24 14–10 5th MAAC tournament
2016 Monmouth 30–27 16–8 T-2nd MAAC tournament
2017 Monmouth 20–28 11–13 8th
2018 Monmouth 30–25 16–7 1st MAAC tournament
2019 Monmouth 27–29–1 13–11 6th MAAC tournament
2020 Monmouth 5–9 0–0 Season canceled due to COVID-19
2021 Monmouth 24–13 22–10 2nd MAAC tournament
2022 Monmouth 24–27 12–10 T-4th MAAC tournament
Monmouth: 118–81
Monmouth (Colonial Athletic Association) (2023–present)
2023 Monmouth 16–30 6–22 11th
Monmouth: 759–713–3 6–22
Total: 780–751–3

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

  1. ^ The top four of the NEC's eight eligible teams qualified for the Tournament in 2012. First place Bryant was not eligible as it transitioned to Division I.
  2. ^ The top four of the NEC's nine teams qualified for the Tournament in 2013.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Dean Ehehalt Biography". Momouth Hawks. Archived from the original on December 28, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  2. ^ "Dean Ehehalt Bio". Monmouth Hawks. Archived from the original on December 28, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  3. ^ Marc Narducci. "Monmouth Strikes Gold In S.J." Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  4. ^ "Dean Ehehalt Selected as Jim Sullivan Award Winner". Word on the Shore. June 4, 2011. Archived from the original on December 28, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  5. ^ Fennell, Ryan. "Middletown North Honors Coaching Legend Rich Veth", The Two River Times, April 13, 2012. Accessed August 28, 2019. "'Coach Veth was a great role model for his players,' said Dean Ehehalt, head baseball coach at Monmouth University and former All-State player for the Lions in 1982."
  6. ^ Dean Ehehalt, Monmouth Hawks baseball. Accessed August 28, 2019. "Ehehalt resides in Wall, with his wife, Lee Ann and daughter, Kelsi Mae."
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