Brian Mazella begins his second season as member of head coach Nick Puccio’s baseball staff at Nichols College in 2019. In his first season in Dudley, three Bison earned All-Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) honors while four others garnered CCC Academic All-Conference accolades.
Mazella is a 2015 graduate of Western New England University with a degree in Sport Management. Currently serving as the head coach of the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate League, Mazella spent last summer as the associate head baseball coach for the Tobacco Valley Renegades, a member of the Connecticut Collegiate Baseball League. He worked with the Renegades pitching staff and also served as the team’s first base coach.
Mazella cut his teeth as an intern with the University of Hartford baseball program in 2014 and has also spent time with the Dream Bat Bombers (2014-17) and Westfield State Owls (2015-17). He also worked for the Southern New England Baseball Academy.
A native of Windsor, Connecticut, Mazella was a four-year member of the Western New England baseball program. He appeared in 20 games on the bump (one start) and struck out 15 batters in 28 innings of work. He recorded his first career victory against Bowdoin as a junior in 2014, when he appeared in a career-high 10 games.
