Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Men's Baseball

Gladu was hired in October 2015 to lead the MCLA Baseball program. Gladu most recently served as an assistant coach at Williams College for the past five years.  As an assistant, he primarily was responsible for evaluating players, practice planning and managing the pitching staff.  He also is the manager of baseball operations at the Cages at the Mill, an indoor practice facility in North Adams. In addition, Gladu has managed the Berkshire Americans 18U travel team for three years.  We are excited to bring Coach Gladu on board to lead our trailblazer baseball program.  Mike is widely known and respected in the baseball community.  His energy and enthusiasm mixed with his focus on player development will help elevate our program to the next level," Mooney said. Gladu is a native of Adams, who played collegiately at Division II American International College in Springfield.  Following his collegiate career, he was signed by the Chicago Cubs.  He later was sent to the Appalachian League, where he was a member of the Wytheville Cubs for three seasons. As a Hoosac Valley High School student, Gladu was an All-Western Massachusetts selection his senior year when he was a pitcher for the Hurricanes baseball team.

Sniezek served as the Junior Varsity coach for Hoosac Valley High School from 1994 to 2015.  While at  Hoosac Valley, Coach Sniezek also coached the  Junior Varsity Girls Softball team from 1991 to 1993.  Recently he has coached with Mike Gladu, MLCA Head Baseball Coach, in the Adams Babe Ruth League for the North Adams LaFesta Boys Baseball team from 2009 to 2015. Married to Marianne, a graduate of MCLA, they have two sons.  Tyler, a 2015 graduate of MCLA and Eric, a current Berkshire Community College Student.  Sniezek has worked for twenty - nine years in the Adams Cheshire Regional School District, in the Building and Grounds Department.