Men's Baseball Coaching Staff

 

 

Jim Pernick    
Head Baseball Coach
(716) 926-8798
baseball@hilbert.edu

Jim Pernick begins his first full season as head coach for the Hawks baseball program this 2011-12 year. Pernick was promoted (in late-March last spring) to the head coach position and guided the team to an over-all  record of 5-27 (under his watch as head coach, the squad finished 4-18). He is excited about his first full-season of working with his returning players and the incoming freshmen and transfer student-athletes. 

Jim is a private professional baseball instructor currently teaching at the Upper Deck (Hamburg, NY). He previously instructed at the Island Dugout (Grand Island, NY) and performed numerous individual and team lessons, clinics and private baseball instruction.  

Pernick has been involved in coaching baseball for the last 21 years with manager duties ranging from little league, to travel teams, to AAABA to MUNY AAA leagues. His skill teaching and game managing produced winning teams all along the way.  His Ken-HY AAABA team made it to the national title game in Johnstown, PA in 2009 while his MUNY AAA team (Island Dugout) stunned the league in 2010 by advancing to the NABF championship game competing against the eventual victors Jetbox. He recently served as compliance coordinator for the MUNY AAA league.

Pernick played high school ball at St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute (Buffalo, NY) where he served as team caption and earned All-Catholic honors his senior year as a pitcher and a catcher. Following his Marauder days, Pernick was a Division I three-year starter (catcher/3rd basemen) at Niagara University where he served as team captain his senior year.   After college, he played MUNY AAA (Ken-HY), suburban baseball (Gataway Saloon and H&H X-ray), AAABA (Lamm Post) and Legion ball (Braunscheidel Post) until 1996. 

For the last 21 years, Pernick has worked in the transportation industry. He currently serves as an account manager at C and M Forwarding, a privately-owned and operated Rochester, NY based company since 1932.

 

Matt Glowacki      
Assistant Baseball Coach
(716) 926-8798
baseball@hilbert.edu

During the 2011-2012 academic year, Matt Glowacki begins his first collegiate coaching assignment. Previously he assisted at St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute (Kenmore, NY) during the 2011 season after he directed his alma mater Niagara Catholic High School (Niagara Falls, NY) for two seasons. Glowacki served as head coach in 2010 and assistant coach in 2009. In all three experiences, Glowacki was actively involved in player development, practice planning and game strategy. Glowacki also coaches the Buffalo Outlaws, an 18U Showcase team over the summer months.

As a high school athlete, Glowacki was a four-year starter and captain for the Patriots in both football and baseball. By the time he graduated in 2006, he held five different records as a quarterback on the football team. His efforts earned him an All-Catholic selection in both sports and an All WNY Second Team selection his senior year in football.

After his stellar high school career, Glowacki took his talents to Medaille College where he earned a degree in sports management (2010). Glowacki expects to finish his master’s degree in physical education with a heavy concentration in sports psychology in the spring of 2012.

 

 

 
Matt Bauman       
Assistant Baseball Coach
(716) 926-8798
baseball@hilbert.edu
Matt Bauman enters his first season as an assistant to Coach Pernick. Previously he was the pitching coach for two seasons at D'Youville College. His coaching experience includes private and team instruction with the Fort Bend Texans and John Hudek's All-Star Baseball Academy in Sugarland, Texas.
As a player, Matt pitched for four years at SUNY Fredonia where he was primarily a closer and reliever. To stay sharp in the off-season, Bauman played for the Orlando Hammers of the Florida Collegiate Summer League and the Weyburn Beavers of the Western Major Baseball League (Sasketchewan, Canada). He was named to the All-Star team in both leagues competing as a collegiate pitcher. 
After college the Marilla, NY native was a reliever with the Laredo Broncos, an independent team of the United League.
Bauman earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise science from Fredonia.

 

Derek Speaker      
Assistant Baseball Coach
(716) 926-8798
baseball@hilbert.edu

Completing Coach Pernick’s baseball staff this spring is Derek Speaker.  After graduating from Starpoint High School, Speaker moved to Alfred State College, earning his associates degree in sports management in May 2009. Prior to the start of his second season at the Division II JUCO institution, Speaker was selected as a Pre-season 1st Team All American in 2009. Upon graduation, he left as the Pioneer’s career stolen base leader having swiped 57 out of 61 attempts.
Speaker kept his talents in the southern-tier of New York State and continued his education and athletic career at St. Bonaventure University. In 2011, he completed his bachelor’s degree in business management and is currently working towards his MBA at St. Bonaventure as well.
Following his graduation, Speaker served as an assistant coach of the Lou Gehrig Outlaws 18U team during the 2011 summer.

 

Jay Musialowski 
Honorary Assistant Baseball Coach
(716) 926-8798
baseball@hilbert.edu

Coach Musialowski's physical condition continues to improve.