University of Nevada - Reno Men's Baseball

Jordan Getzelman was named Nevada Baseball head coach December 1, 2025. Overall, the 2026 campaign marks his fourth season on staff after serving as the team's hitting coach and recruiting coordinator from 2023-25. Getzelman takes over a Nevada team which enters 2026 looking to defend its Mountain West regular season title. He and returning coaching staff members associate head coach/pitching coach Mark Moriarty, assistant coach Noah Shackles, and director of pitching development Owen Sharts will oversee a Wolf Pack team which returns all five of its 2025 All-Mountain West selections, including Freshman of the Year and Freshman All-America third baseman Sean Yamaguchi. Seven of the Pack’s everyday position players from a season ago return in 2026, including All-Mountain West selections Billy Ham, Jayce Dobie, and Jake Harvey, and senior Jackson Waller, who join Yamaguchi in bringing back five of Nevada’s top-six hitters. On the hill, All-Mountain West first-teamer Alessandro Castro leads the way alongside veteran reliever Dominic Desch. Getzelman's work with the Wolf Pack offense in 2025 played a critical role in Nevada capturing the Mountain West regular season championship. As a team, Nevada batted .296 with 79 home runs, both figures program highs since Getzelman's arrival in 2023. Four of Nevada's All-Mountain West selections in 2025 came from the batting order, with all four (Jayce Dobie, Jake Harvey on the First Team, Sean Yamaguchi and Billy Ham on the Second Team) earning the first all-conference recognition of their respective careers. The impact of Sean Yamaguchi in 2025 greatly helped the Wolf Pack's success. The Aiea, Hawaii native was named 2025 Mountain West Freshman of the Year and was named to the Freshman All-America Second Team by both the NCBWA and Perfect Game after batting .324 with team-leading figures of 13 homers and 72 hits, along with 13 doubles and 50 RBIs. Overseeing the Wolf Pack's recruiting efforts, Getzelman has helped land players with immediate impacts on the diamond as seven of Nevada's 11 All-Mountain West honors since 2023 have been claimed by players joining the squad since his arrival. This number includes four selections to the All-Mountain West First Team. Getzelman's work as hitting coach has led to increased production throughout the Wolf Pack lineup. In 2024, three Nevada batters had at least 10 home runs, led by Holder's 14, while the Wolf Pack hit 142 doubles, with three players, led by Michael Ball with 22, had at least 20. As a whole, the Wolf Pack offense slugged .502 and batted .294 in 2024, well up from figures of .259 and .422 in 2023. Ball and Holder would go on to earn spots on the All-Mountain West Second Team while JR Freethy had his best collegiate season, batting .303 with 18 doubles, 10 homers, and 37 RBIs before being drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays. Prior to his arrival in Reno in 2023, Getzelman served in the same capacities at Middle Tennessee in 2022. He mentored Blue Raider hitters to a team batting average of .275 in 2022, the program’s highest figure since 2018, as Middle Tennessee wrapped the year with a 29-26 record. He began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Jessup in 2018, from there heading to Dallas Baptist where he served as the Director of Hitting Development and Hitting, Analysis & Operations for two seasons (2018-19). Over his two seasons in Dallas, the Patriots hit .290 and made back-to-back NCAA Regional appearances. Getzelman then spent two seasons (2020-21) as an assistant hitting coordinator with the Milwaukee Brewers. The Crystal Lake, Illinois native started his collegiate playing career at Missouri where he received a medical redshirt before transferring to Iowa Western Community College in 2015. While in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Getzelman received first-team All-Region and the Reivers went 54-7 and competed in the JUCO World Series. From there, Getzelman spent the 2016 season at Kennesaw State before playing for McKinley at Menlo College in 2017. At Menlo, Getzelman was named an NAIA All-American, the GSAC Conference Player of the Year and to the All-GSAC First Team when he set school records with 26 home runs and 66 RBIs.

Matthew Kinney was named Nevada's pitching coach June 19, 2026 and begins his first year with the Pack ahead of the 2027 campaign. Kinney spent eight seasons over three stints at SEMO (2017, 2019-21, 2023-26) including seven (2019-21, 2023-26) overseeing the Redhawk pitching staff. He also spent the 2022 campaign as pitching coach at Army West Point. During his time in Cape Girardieu, Kinney helped guide the Redhawks to two NCAA Regionals (2021, 2024), one Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) regular season title in 2021 and two OVC Tournament titles (2021, 2024). In 2026, the Redhawks went 39-18 overall and tied for second in OVC play with an 18-9 mark. Kinney's staff led the OVC in fewest walks issued (170), strikeouts-per-nine-innings (8.2) and strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.63), with the latter figure also ranking 19th in the country. Nathan Mertens paced SEMO in these categories, leading the country in strikeout-to-walk ratio (18.33) and walks allowed per nine innings (0.44). The staff's 170 walks and 3.11 walks-per-nine-innings each ranked fifth in the country and the Redhawks also ranked second in the OVC in both ERA and WHIP. A season prior, Kinney's staff recorded a historic season on the mound and were among the nation’s best in many statistical categories. The Redhawks finished fourth in the nation in walks-per-nine-innings (3.09), 13th in strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.79), 27th in WHIP (1.34), 41st in ERA (4.67), and third in overall strike percentage (65.2%). Each of those rankings marked a program record in their respective categories in the program’s Division I era.  Three Redhawk pitchers landed on the 2025 All-OVC Team including two first-teamers and a second-team selection. Mertens and Jackson Kranawetter were each named to the First Team, and Haden Dow landed on the Second Team.  Mertens finished the 2025 campaign ranked first in the nation in walks-allowed-per-nine-innings (0.91) and third in the country in strikeout-to-walk ratio (8.38). He also ranked 18th nationally in WHIP (1.00). In his one season at Army West Point, Kinney's pitching staff led the Patriot League in ERA, WHIP, shutouts, strikeout-to-walk ratio, fewest hits allowed per nine innings, and batting average against and featured three All-Patriot League team members, including Patriot League Pitcher of the Year Connelly Early who is currently in his second season with the Boston Red Sox. The Black Knights swept the Patriot League regular-season and tournament titles and earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Over his two stints at SEMO, Kinney's pitchers earned six selections to the All-OVC First Team, four to the Second Team, and eight to the All-Freshman Team. Dylan Dodd was named OVC Pitcher of the Year in 2021, leading the conference in innings pitched, strikeouts, wins and games started while coming in second in ERA. Dodd earned second-team All-America honors and went on to be the highest draft pick in program history when he was selected by the Atlanta Braves in the third round of the 2021 MLB Draft. Kinney first joined the SEMO coaching staff as Volunteer Assistant and Director of Operations. Prior to joining Andy Sawyers’ staff at Southeast Missouri in 2017, Kinney worked as the pitching coach for the Cape Cod League’s Cotuit Kettleers. Kinney served on Mike Robert’s staff after playing for Cotuit in 2015.  Before getting his start in coaching, Kinney enjoyed a successful baseball career as a player. At Belmont, he helped the Bruins to the 2012 Atlantic Sun Conference regular season and tournament championships, as well as a trip to the Baton Rouge Regional. He split time as a pitcher and outfielder before pitching full-time in 2015, when he posted a 1.80 ERA, struck out 62 in 35 relief appearances, and notched two saves against eventual College World Series runner-up Vanderbilt.  After earning a bachelor’s degree in finance from Belmont in 2015, Kinney utilized a graduate transfer to national powerhouse Florida State. As a Seminole, he went 3-0 with a 2.49 ERA and helped the team reach an NCAA Super Regional in 2016. Additionally, he was named to the Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year List and earned a master’s degree in sport management.

Henry Strmecki, who finished his collegiate playing career with the Wolf Pack in 2023, returns to Reno as Director of Hitting Development in 2026. Strmecki played professionally for the Missoula PaddleHeads of the Pioneer League in 2025. In 2024, he served as an assistant coach at Middlebury College, where he played from 2018-21 and was named to the All-NESCAC First Team after batting .344 with six homers and 28 RBIs in 2019. Middlebury went 32-13, won the NESCAC Tournament title, and reached the title game of the NCAA Division III Regional at Misericordia in 2024. In his lone season playing at Nevada, Strmecki started all 52 games in which he appeared, leading the Pack in both categories. He batted .277 with 11 doubles, two triples, nine homers, 33 RBIs, and 40 runs scored, and posted six three-hit games. Prior to joining the Wolf Pack, he spent the 2022 campaign at Dayton where he led the Flyers with a .313 batting average, a .406 on-base percentage, a .589 slugging percentage, and 12 doubles, while hitting nine home runs and driving in 30 runs.

Noah Shackles will begin his fourth campaign in Reno and first as recruiting coordinator in 2026. Over his first three seasons on staff, Shackles has been instrumental in the Wolf Pack's success, including winning the 2025 Mountain West regular season championship. Shackles has helped oversee 11 Nevada players earn All-Mountain West honors, including eight members of the batting order, along with four players be selected in the past two years' (2023-24) Major League Baseball Drafts. In 2025, Shackles defensive work with the Wolf Pack paid dividends as Nevada posted a .977 fielding percentage, its highest since 2021 (.979). The work contributed to Sean Yamaguchi's being named 2025 Mountain West Freshman of the Year and earning Freshman All-America recognition from the NCBWA and Perfect Game, as Yamaguchi committed just four errors and posted a fielding percentage of .969 at third base. Jesse Pierce (2023 All-Mountain West Second Team) and Taylor Holder (2024 Second Team) are among the batters joining the Pack over the past two seasons who have earned all-conference recognition, with Holder breaking out in 2024 batting .307 with team-leading figures in home runs (14), slugging percentage (.663), and OPS (1.052). The Wolf Pack defense has also shown a year-to-year improvement, raising its 2024 fielding percentage to .973, up from .966 in 2023,while significantly cutting down its error total from 64 to 50 from 2023 to 2024. Shackles came to Nevada after two seasons at Dallas Baptist, serving as the Patriots’ Director of Player Development. In 2021, Shackles served as a volunteer assistant with the Patriots, working with catchers and infielders, and helping guide the team to Missouri Valley Conference regular-season and tournament titles, capturing the Fort Worth Regional, and an appearance at the Columbia Super Regional. In 2022, the Patriots once again reached the postseason, appearing at the Austin Regional. Shackles also has connections to the William Jessup program, having spent the 2020 campaign on the staff, working primarily with catchers and infielders. Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, Shackles was both the 2015 Hawaii Gatorade Player of the Year and the Interscholastic Honolulu Player of the Year. Following a standout prep career at Mid-Pacific Institute, Shackles played two seasons at Alvin Community College in Texas. Following his freshman season, he was named to the Texas/New Mexico JUCO All-Star Game. After two years at Alvin CC, Shackles finished his collegiate career at William Jessup, playing the 2018 season under McKinley’s tutelage. As a two-year starter with the Warriors, Shackles helped lead William Jessup to a pair of Golden State Athletic Conference titles. In 2019, he hit .327 with a .413 on-base percentage and 35 RBI, while posting a .991 fielding percentage. Shackles received a degree in Business Management from William Jessup in 2019.