Trinity College Men's Baseball

Bryan Adamski enters his 11th season at the helm of the Trinity College baseball program heading into the 2023-24 academic year, after guiding the Bantams to a 47-40 record over the last three years and into the post-season last spring.  Adamski led the Bantams to a 30-9 record and into the 2019 NCAA Division III Championship Tournament, as Trinity won nine of their final 11 games in that regular season, hosted an NCAA Regional as a No. 2 seed, and advanced to the regional final.  The Bantams won 18 games in 2018 and 22 in 2017, after catching fire late to reach the New England Small College Athletic Conference Finals in 2016. Adamski is 167-136 as Trinity's head coach and has mentored 20 All-NESCAC honorees in his tenure. Trinity's Matt Koperniak ‘20 was signed to a major league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals and is currently playing Double A ball with the Springfield Cardinals after a successful career at Trinity.  Koperniak was also named to Great Britain's team for the World Baseball Classic in 2023. Adamski, who also has two years of head coaching experience with the North Adams Steeplecats in the New England Collegiate Baseball League, served as both the pitching and hitting coach during his tenure at Amherst College.  He played a pivotal role in all aspects of the Amherst program, as the Mammoths posted a 112-57 record (.663) in his five seasons with four consecutive post-season appearances.  He helped Amherst win a College-record 27 games in 2013, and coached the NESCAC Pitcher, Defensive Player, and Rookie of the Year that spring.  In his final year as the Amherst hitting coach in 2010, Adamski's hitters posted a College-record batting average of .349, and the Mammoth pitching staff set a new team record for ERA (3.17) with Adamski as their pitching coach in 2013. In 2012, the Steeplecats were 22-20 and qualified for the post-season in Adamski's first season after a last place finish the previous year.  He also coached prior to North Adams with the New England Collegiate Baseball League's Holyoke Blue Sox. Adamski graduated from Massachusetts in 2007 with bachelor's degrees in English and journalism, and holds a master's degree from Springfield College in sport management.  He finished his collegiate playing career as the all-time save leader in UMass baseball history.  Adamski resides in Granby, Conn. with his wife, Stephanie, their son, Kace, and their daughter, Kaelyn.

Assistant baseball coach at Trinity college. Manager of the New Britain Bees in the Futures collegiate baseball league 

Jason Szafarski enters his sixth year as an assistant baseball coach in 2023-24. Szafarski works with the Bantam infielders and baserunners, and handles the recruiting.  Under Szafarski's tutelage, the Bantams broke the school record for most stolen bases in a season in 2019.  Trinity's recruiting classes under Szafarski have been ranked among the nation's best each season (5th in 2020, 20th in 2021, 1st in 2022, 6th in 2023).  The Bantams have combined for a 95-69 record since Szafarski's arrival. Szafarski previously served as head coach at St. Michael's College during the 2017 and 2018 seasons, where he saw the Purple Knights break school records for saves (6) and pitching strikeouts (231). Szafarski was an assistant coach and the recruiting coordinator at Eckerd College for the two years immediately prior to landing at Saint Michael's.  He spent the 2014 season as an assistant coach at Division II powerhouse University of Tampa, helping lead the Spartans to a 54-4 record and a No. 1 ranking in the nation. In 2012 and 2013, Szafarski was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at St. Petersburg College, a National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I institution in Florida that averaged 21 wins during his two seasons.  Szafarski was also head coach of the Upper Valley Nighthawks of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) in the summers of 2017 and 2018. In 2017, the Nighthawks won the NECBL Northern Division at 29-15 before falling in the divisional championship series. Szafarski headed the Brockton Rox of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League (FCBL) in 2015 and 2016, leading the Rox to a combined 61-51 mark and two post-season berths. In 2015, he was named FCBL Co-Manager of the Year after a 34-22 performance and he was also the head coach of the Montauk Mustangs of the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League (HCBL) during the summer of 2014.  Between 2008 and 2013, he worked with USA Baseball as a scout, site supervisor and trials coach in Cary, N.C., assisting in the selection of a 16U National Team that won five straight gold medals.  A former college infielder at Post University and SUNY-Oswego, the Arcade, N.Y. native graduated from Oswego State in 2007 with a degree in adolescent education. He completed his master's degree in sports management from Southern New Hampshire University in 2016.