Washington College Head Baseball Coach/Compliance Director Cory Beddick was promoted to Assistant Director of Athletics in the summer of 2021.
Beddick was named the Head Baseball Coach at Washington College in June 2017 and took over the department's compliance duties in November of 2019. He will continue to remain in those roles going forward.
"I am excited and grateful for this opportunity to continue to contribute to the Washington College community," stated Beddick. "I look forward to helping our coaches and all of our Shoremen and Shorewomen student-athletes reach their academic and athletic goals and have a first-class athletic experience."
"Cory has been and continues to be such a critical part of the Washington College athletics' family," Moore said. "His hard work and dedication to our student-athletes are just small parts of what makes him the perfect fit to take on this role."
Beddick has led Washington College to four straight winning seasons and the squad has compiled an outstanding record of 79-41(.658) record during his regime. In 2019, the Shoremen opened the season with a program-record 14-game winning streak and wound up tying their program record for most wins in a season, finishing 28-12 and one game out of a Centennial Conference Tournament spot. The squad also beat Salisbury and Swarthmore, a pair of nationally ranked teams.
A graduate of fellow Centennial Conference school Gettysburg College, Beddick came to Chestertown from Hood College, where he served as that institution's first-ever head baseball coach and turned the Blazers into a competitive team in just three seasons. He was named the 2016 MAC Commonwealth Coach of the Year.
Beddick was hired at Hood in the summer of 2013 to begin recruiting for the Blazers' inaugural season of 2015. That initial season featured a roster of 37 student-athletes and posted a respectable first-year record of 14-25. One of his players was named the MAC Commonwealth and Mid-Atlantic Region Rookie of the Year and was chosen for the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) all-region team and the D3Baseball.com All-America team.
In just three seasons under Beddick, Hood baseball student-athletes won a total of 13 All-MAC Commonwealth honors, including five first-team honors. In addition to his tremendous success recruiting to a new program, Beddick fundraised over $70,000 to support a program without an alumni base. While he started his time at Hood as a part-time head coach, his outstanding work led him to an additional position as an Admissions Counselor at the school for two years. In the summer of 2016, he moved into the athletic department in a full-time role, picking up duties as an Assistant Director of Athletics and NCAA Compliance Coordinator. He was awarded Hood's Dr. Henry P. and Page Laughlin Administrative Achievement Award, given for "noteworthy service to staff members who have made significant contributions to the College" in April 2016. He also served as the Chair of the MAC Commonwealth Baseball Committee.
Prior to his time at Hood, Beddick spent two seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Penn State Behrend baseball team, helping that program to a 59-27-1 record and an Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Championship. His first assistant coaching position came at his alma mater, Gettysburg College, where he worked with hitters and position players for the 2011 season.
Beddick was also a certified Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association basketball official for 10 years. He earned his B.A. in Political Science with a minor in History from Gettysburg in May 2010. He received his M.B.A. from Penn State-Behrend in May 2013.
