Marc Senia begins his fifth season as an assistant baseball coach at Nichols College in 2023.
This past season, the Bison set program records for home runs (33) and total bases (599) while the pitching staff fanned a single-season record 362 batters. The season was highlighted by wins over LaGrange on opening weekend as well as Messiah, Springfield, and eventually conference champion and NCAA participant Salve Regina.
The 2021 Bison posted a 15-9 record, which was good for a .625 winning percentage – the highest for the program since the 2005 campaign. The Bison established program-records for dingers (29), on-base percentage (.444), and slugging pct. (.542), and also recorded the second-highest team batting average (.343) in program history. Nichols hurlers fanned 228 batters in 2021, second only to the 254 registered during his first season at the helm of the program in 2019. Nichols pitchers held opponents to a .256 batting average in 2021, which is the fourth-lowest mark ever recorded in Dudley.
Seven Bison received All-CCC honors in 2021, highlighted by CCC Player of the Year Kyle Bouchard, Pitcher of the Year Jack Dicenso, and Rookie of the Year Brennan Hyde. Bouchard and Dicenso, along with Nate Cormier and DJ Caron, went on to grab All-New England Honors while Bouchard was named to the All-America Fourth Team.
The Bison were off to a scorching 8-2 start in 2020, highlighted by a doubleheader sweep of Bates and a season-ending win over Keene State. Nichols – which was a perfect 4-0 at the Russmatt Invitational in Florida – was the last Division III school in the country to play (and win) a game before the season was stopped due to COVID-19. The Bison recorded 10+ hits in seven of their 10 games in 2020 and ended the season with .310 team batting average.
In his first season on the bench at Nichols, the Bison won 21 games – the fourth-highest mark in program history – and returned to the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) playoffs following a one-year hiatus. The Bison set single-season records for home runs (24) and earned run average (ERA) (3.77), while placing second in doubles (78), fourth in stolen bases (69) and hits (391), fifth in RBI (212), and sixth in runs (240) in program history. Five student-athletes were named to the all-conference team: Christian Naccari (First Team), Kyle Bouchard (Second Team), Joe Assenza (Second Team), Nathaniel Cormier (Third Team), and Brendan Duffy (Second Team); Duffy was also named CCC Rookie of the Year. Four student-athletes garnered CCC Academic All-Conference honors.
Senia had most recently spent four years as an assistant coach at Eastern Connecticut State (2014-17), where he helped the Warriors capture a pair of Little East Conference (LEC) Championships and make two NCAA Tournament appearances (2014, 2016). Over that span, ECSU compiled a record of 99-61 (.619 winning pct.).
Senia previously served as head coach and manager for the South Windsor American Legion program as well as an assistant baseball and basketball coach at Watkinson School in Hartford, Conn. Senior is also an instructor at the Dream Bat Baseball Club in Somers, Conn.
A 2002 graduate of Wheaton (MA) College, Senia was a four-year member of the Lyons baseball team, where he was a member of four-straight New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) regular season and tournament championship squads. During that span, he helped the Lyons post a record of 124-46-1 (.782 winning pct.) and appear in three NCAA Tournaments. Senia appeared in 111 games, posting a .921 fielding percentage as an infielder to go with 22 stolen bases.
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