Lafayette College Men's Baseball

A.J. Miller ‘11, a former Patriot League Player of the Year with the Leopards, begins his fourth season as the program's head coach. In 2025, coach Miller mentored five All-Patriot League selections, including Michael Zarrillo, who broke the Lafayette career home run record, hitting 24 home runs. After the 2025 season, MIller signed a contract extension that will keep him as the Leopards' head coach through the 2029 school year.  In his first year at the helm of the Leopards program, Miller led the Maroon and White to the Patriot League Tournament, with Pete Ciuffreda, Michael Zarrillo and Alex Walsh all being selected to the All-Patriot League First Team. Also in 2023, Pete Ciuffreda broke Lafayette's single-season home run record, blasting 13 home runs. In his second season, Miller helped Ethan Swidler and Blaze Fadio garner All-Patriot League honors. Prior to returning to College Hill, Miller spent seven seasons on the coaching staff at Lehigh University, holding titles of assistant coach, recruiting coordinator and associate head coach, during his tenure in Bethlehem. In 2022, under Miller’s tutelage, Casey Rother became the first back-to-back Patriot League Player of the Year since Navy’s Marcus Lee in 1993-94. In addition, five players were named All-Patriot League selections, including sluggers Rother, Adam Retzbach, Joe Gorla and Tyler Young. Miller played an integral role in the development of Adam Retzbach, helping him claim the Patriot league home run title and be selected in the 13th round of the Major League Baseball Draft by the Baltimore Orioles. Miller’s Lehigh offense once again paced the Patriot League in home runs with 47, along with 102 doubles, a .449 slugging percentage and a second place finish with 486 hits and 307 RBIs. Miller helped guide the Mountain Hawks to one of their best seasons in program history in 2021, earning the program's third Patriot League Regular Season Title, claiming the No. 1 seed in the Patriot League Tournament. Lehigh finished the year 24-19 with a winning record for the first time since 2014, and had the most Patriot League wins in program history, with 17. With Miller's help, Mason Black became the program's first Patriot League Pitcher of the Year selection since 2002 and Casey Rother was named Patriot League Player of the Year. Eight Mountain Hawks earned All-Patriot League selections, a program record. In addition, two pitchers, Mason Black and Matt Svanson, were selected in the 2021 Major League Baseball Draft. Miller returned to Lehigh in 2019 after spending 2017 and 2018 as the director of college advisement and director of the futures program at the All Star Baseball Academy in West Chester, Pa., where he oversaw 19 program teams and showcases on the East Coast. In his first season back at Lehigh, Miller guided the Mountain Hawks' offense back to the top of the Patriot League, smashing 38 home runs and were ranked second in slugging percentage. His offensive-minded coaching style helped garner First Team All-Patriot League selections for both Tony Gallo and Ryan Malloy, as well as a Second Team selection for Jeff Shanfeldt. In his second season with the Mountain Hawks, Miller's offense led the Patriot League in home runs with 53. Coming in second was Navy and Lafayette, who both hit 35 homers that season. During his first season at Lehigh, Miller coached the Mountain Hawk bats to a .285 batting average that ranked second best in the Patriot League and a league-leading .424 slugging percentage. Four position players earned All-Patriot League laurels, including Patriot League Player of the Year Mike Garzillo, who was selected by the Miami Marlins in the 2016 Major League Baseball Draft. A three-year starting catcher for the Leopards, Miller was the Patriot League Player of the year in 2011. He also accumulated CollegeBaseballInsider.com Honorable Mention All-America status and a spot on the Johnny Bench Award Watch List. In his final campaign, he hit for a .385 average with 52 RBIs and a .705 slugging percentage. Miller was a .313 career hitter and remains tied for second place in career home runs with 22, while ranking 10th in career games played with 155. After his Lafayette career, Miller went on to play professional baseball for the Normal Cornbelters of the Frontier League and the Lincoln Saltdogs of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. A native of Manasquan, N.J., Miller earned a B.A. in economics and business from Lafayette in 2011 and added a master’s of education degree in educational leadership from Lehigh in 2021. Miller is married to his wife, Jaclyn, a 2013 Lafayette graduate, and the couple has two daughters, Charlotte and Lucy. Updated 12/25

Ryan Luke begins his fifth season on College Hill as the Recruiting Coordinator/Hitting Coach in 2026. In 2025, Luke coached a Lafayette offense that included All-Patriot League Easton Brenner, Ethan Swidler, Alex Barrist and Michael Zarrillo. In 2023, Luke was part of a Leopards team that advanced to the Patriot League Tournament. Luke mentored a Lafayette offense that included All-Patriot League First-Team performers Pete Ciuffreda and Michael Zarrillo. Luke comes from Franklin and Marshall College, where he spent 6 years as the associate head coach and recruiting coordinator. As a member of the Diplomats coaching staff under four-time Centennial Conference Coach of the Year Ryan Horning, Luke helped develop Dan Marano and J.J. Freeman, who were both selected as Centennial Conference Player of the Year. Luke also helped mentor Jonathan Cole and Kyle Roche, who were named Centennial Conference Pitcher of the Year in 2018 and 2021, respectively. During the 2022 season, Luke's offense at F&M broke single season school records for 3B, HR, XBH, TB, and SLG%, while producing six All-Conference hitters, two of which earned All-Region honors. Luke began his collegiate coaching career on College Hill serving as Lafayette's director of baseball operations for the 2016 season.  Luke played collegiate baseball in the Lehigh Valley at Moravian University, where he was a three-year captain and a two-time First Team All-Landmark Conference selection and a two-time All-Region selection, while also holding several top 10 marks in the Greyhound's record book. A native of Stewartsville, NJ, Luke competed scholasticaly at Phillipsburg High School.Luke earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management from Moravian in 2015. Luke is married to his wife, Jill and the couple has a son, Decker, and four dogs. Updated 6/25

Jabin Weaver begins his first season on College Hill as the Pitching Coach in 2026. Weaver comes to Easton from Villanova where he spent the last five seasons serving in various roles, most recently was the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for the Wildcats. Prior to arriving at Villanova, he spent the summer of 2019 as the Director of Baseball Operations and Baseball Analytics at Campbell. Weaver's first stint at Villanova came during the 2019 season when he was a volunteer assistant. Weaver spent the 2018 season as the head coach at Hudson Valley Community College, taking his team to a 25-14 record and second place in the conference at 21-7, en route to a third-place finish at the 2018 NJCAA DIII Region III Baseball Championships. At Hudson Valley, he coached a region player of the year, an all-American and six all-conference players. Before his time at Hudson Valley, Weaver was the Director of Player Development in 2017 and a graduate assistant at West Virginia in 2016, while completing his M.S. in sports science and education. Weaver is a native of Fort Plain, N.Y. and played college baseball at East Stroudsburg as a pitcher for four years, earning his bachelor's degree in 2015 in sport management.  

Gregg Durrah enters his 22nt season as a part of the Leopards baseball program in 2026. Durrah is in charge of managing day-to-day operations, assisting with alumni relations and helping oversee the development of future and current players. This is Durrah's second stint with the Leopards' program, the first coming from 2000 to 2019. "We are extremely excited to welcome back Gregg Durrah. His new role and 20-plus years of experience with the Lafayette Baseball program will only help develop our current and future players, as well as the state of the program," Miller said. "I am fortunate to have played under Gregg, and his guidance and direction are what helped mold me into the person I am today. I know the alumni will be equally as excited for this hire as we are." Durrah has spent the last four seasons at DeSales University as the pitching coach of the Bulldogs, as well as assisting with recruiting. During that time, DeSales qualified for the MAC Freedom Tournament in 2021, 2022 and 2023.   Prior to his time at DeSales, Durrah spent 20 years as an assistant baseball coach at Lafayette College under Joe Kinney, claiming a Patriot League championship in 2007, and advancing to the Patriot League finals in 2008. As the pitching coach for the Maroon and White, Durrah mentored two-time MLB All-Star and relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, David Bednar '17. Before his time with the Leopards, he coached at Easton High School from 1992-99, following brief stints as an assistant coach with Rutgers-Newark and Fairleigh Dickinson University.   He graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in business management. Durrah was a four-year player for the Knights.   Durrah currently works as a probation officer for Northampton County and is also in the Marine Corps Reserve where he holds the rank of gunnery sergeant. He is also a college basketball official.   Durrah and his wife, Kendra, have two children, Sydney and Trey, and reside in Palmer Township, Pa. Updated 6/25

Ally is in her second year as a member of the Lafayette baseball staff. She graduated from Phillipsburg High School in 2008. Ally played her collegiate ball at Centenary College, where she reached the 1,000 career point milestone on Feb. 1st against Cedar Crest College, became Centenary's All-Time leader in free throws made (262) was named to the CSAC Weekly Honor Roll and was a three-time Cyclone of the Week. A four-year member of the Colonial States Athletic Conference All-Academic Team, Ally graduated in 2012 with a degree in business, marketing and history. For her final two years as a cyclone she joined the lacrosse team where in CSAC conference statistics, ranked ninth in goals per game and ninth in points per game. After college, she was employed by the Chubb Insurance Corporation, a member of the S & P 500. Ally also was a recruiting coordinator at Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, New Jersey. In the 2022 and 2023 season Ally was a creative content intern for the New York Yankees where she assisted with daily game day photography coverage which included shooting pregame and in-game ceremonies, fan features, and game action. She was a member of the Yankees photography and social media staff where she focused on photo and video shoots and other daily game day needs. For the past 3 seasons Ally has been the head game day photographer for the Somerset Patriots, Double A affiliate for the New York Yankees. There she is responsible for capturing all game day events, media days, game action, and community outreach moments for print, marketing and social media needs. Ally’s work can also be found featured within the Philadelphia Phillies affiliate teams. Triple A, Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs and Double A Reading Fightin Phils utilize Ally’s photography for social media and other marketing needs.