Lou Proietti
Lou Proietti
Title: Associate Head Coach; Co-Recruiting Coordinator
Email: lproietti@stonehill.edu
Year: 5th Season
College: UMass Amherst '07

Lou Proietti begins his fifth season with the Skyhawks, having served as an assistant coach for four years previously from 2015-2019. Proietti was most recently the Head Baseball Coach at Saint Peter’s University in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

During a condensed 2021, Proietti guided the Peacocks to the program's best MAAC output since the 2016 campaign. In 2020, before the COVID shutdown, Proietti helped lead his team to his first collegiate win as a Head Coach on the road against Rutgers. It was the first win in program history against a Power 5 opponent. Six student-athletes were named to the MAAC All-Academic team in June and 13 to the MAAC Academic Honor Roll in July.

Before Saint Peter’s, Proietti spent the previous four seasons at Stonehill. Proietti returns to his Associate Head Coach role also serving as the team's co-recruiting coordinator, hitting coach, and working closely with both the infielders and outfielders.

Prior to Stonehill, Proietti was an assistant at Rider from 2012-15. During his tenure, he was the hitting coach and third base coach, helping lead the Broncs to a pair of regular season MAAC Championships, including a season that broke the school record for most wins in a regular season in 2013. Head coach Barry Davis also won the MAAC Coach of the Year award in both 2013 and 2015 with Proietti on the staff.

Before his time at Rider, Proietti spent the 2009-10 season at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, then acted as hitting coach for the Oneonta Outlaws of the PGCBL (Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League) from 2010-12, and from 2013-2016, he coached the Plymouth Pilgrims in the NECBL (New England Collegiate Baseball League) as hitting coach. He helped 1st round MLB draft pick, Brent Rooker from Mississippi State win the 2015 NECBL MVP award and also coached World Series MVP Jeremy Pena that summer.

Proietti also spent time working as a teacher and baseball coach at Georgetown Prep School in North Bethesda, Maryland (2011-13) and he served as a hitting instructor at Pitcher's Edge in McLean, Virginia (2012).

The Hamilton, Ontario native graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2007 and received his master's degree from the university in 2009. Proietti also earned a master's in Organizational Leadership from Rider in 2015. At UMass Amherst, he played shortstop while leading the Minutemen in batting average and stolen bases in 2006. Prior to UMass, Proietti played the 2004 season at Saint Peter's before transferring to Potomac State College in Keyser, West Virginia for the 2005 season. He helped Potomac State advance to the Junior College World Series, where the team finished 5th nationally.

He and his wife Jenna, reside in Braintree, Mass., with their son Pacifico.