August 25, 2011
Former Harvard assistant named Stevens Institute head coach
by PR/Wire Report/
Stevens Institute of Technology has hired Kristaps Aldins, formerly the assistant coach at Harvard University, as the college's head baseball coach for the 2011-12 academic school year. Aldins is the 10th coach in program history.
”I am honored and humbled to be named the head baseball coach of Stevens Institute of Technology,” said Aldins. “Stevens is a special place with a national reputation for both academic and athletic excellence. I am grateful to Russell Rogers and the rest of the search committee for giving me the opportunity to lead the program and become a member of the Stevens community. I look forward to helping our baseball program get back to the top of the New York Region and into to the NCAAs.”
Aldins spent the last three seasons in Cambridge, Mass., under Crimson head coach Joe Walsh. In addition to his on-the-field duties as well as his recruiting, and summer league placement responsibilities, Aldins also served as the director and owner of the Rising Star Academic Prospect Camp. This annual event served as a feeder system that helped attract top-notch student athletes to Harvard.
He also serves as the head coach for the Latvian national team, which recently competed in the European Championship Qualifier in Antwerp, Belgium. At the tournament, Latvia competed against Austria, Belgium, Poland and Slovakia.
Aldins also organized and planned the first-ever Major League Baseball Envoy assignment to Latvia to help develop the talent, skill and awareness of baseball within the country. The Envoy assignment also played a large role in helping the national team prepare for the European Qualifier appearance. MLB Envoy has helped make significant strides for the sport in Latvia and has motivated the national team members to develop a youth system.
Aldins was the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2005-09. Aldins oversaw a pitching staff of 16 student-athletes and helped lead the Engineers to a school-record 25 victories in 2009 and two appearances in the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference tournament finals. In his tenure at MIT, he developed one NEWMAC Player of the Year, one Academic All-American and numerous All-New England and all-conference performers.
As a collegiate player, Aldins competed at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and was a three-time All-Academic student-athlete as well as the 2005 Liberty League Player of the Year his senior season. He was named to the first team in the ABCA/Rawlings New York State All-Region and Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Upstate All-Star team.
