One of New England's winningest college coaches of all time, University of Southern Maine skipper Ed Flaherty, has announced that he will retire at the end of the 2024 season.
Flaherty will conclude his career after 39 seasons and more than 1,100 wins. Flaherty led the Huskies to two D3 national championships, earning the first of his legendary career in 1991. That team was the first collegiate team from the state of Maine to win a national championship.
Six years later, Southern Maine compiled a then-school-best 39-9 record on the way to capturing the program's second national title. Among that season's highlights were an 18-game winning streak, winning the first-ever Little East Conference championship, and hosting the NCAA regional tournament.
Flahery, a 2005 inductee into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, has guided the Huskies to 17 seasons with 30 or more wins and 26 postseason appearances, including seven College World Series and the 1991 national championship. Perhaps it could be said that against the odds, Flaherty built one of the top D3 programs in the nation in Gorham, Maine.