September 11, 2006 - Jim Carone Hired as New Assistant

September 11, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

College Baseball
Rider Hires Carone Assistant Coach

LAWRENCEVILLE—Jim Carone has been hired as the new baseball assistant coach at Rider University, Rider head coach Barry Davis announced today.

A 2003 graduate of Monmouth University, Carone comes to Rider from Wagner College, where he served as assistant coach last spring. Carone has also served as assistant coach at New Jersey Institute of Technology and at Stevens Institute of Technology under former Rider pitcher John Crane ‘96.

“Jim wants to be a successful college baseball coach and his desire to be the best is what we want here at Rider,” said Davis, the 2006 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. “He has a familiarity with Rider and we are very comfortable with him taking charge of our pitchers.”

A former First Team All-Eastern College Athletic Conference and First Team New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association selection, Carone was the Northeast Conference Pitcher of the Year in 2002.

“Jim has pitched at a high level and has coached with quality coaches in the state,” said Davis. “We are a better program with Jim Carone on our staff.”

During the summer, Carone has served as assistant coach for the Concord Quarry Dogs of the New England Collegiate League and the Jersey Shore Tides of the ABC Collegiate Baseball League. He was also a player in the New England Collegiate Baseball League in 2002, with the Middletown Giants.

At Wagner, Carone coached pitcher Andrew Bailey, who was a sixth round pick in the Amateur Baseball draft last summer.

“I am looking forward to helping Coach Davis and the Rider baseball program achieve success and contend in the MAAC on a yearly basis,” said Carone.

Rider finished in third place in the MAAC last season.

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