Matt Noone has been coaching youth, high school, college, and professional athletes in baseball for more than 20 years. He has been the head coach at Babson College since 2003, building Babson into one of the top NCAA Division III programs in the country. His record includes four post-season appearances, including NEWMAC Championships and NCAA tournament berths in 2004 and 2009. Along with the gre
at team success, Noone's players have have had tremendous individual success. Recently four different Beaver players have gone on to play professionally while dozens have competed in nationally recognized collegiate leagues, such as the Cape Cod Baseball League. In additon to leading the Beavers to national Division III prominance, Noone is recognized as one of the finest teachers of pitching and hitting in New England. He has served a feature clinician for the World Baseball Coaches Convention, the Masscachusetts Baseball Coaches Association as well as the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Coaches Association. Noone is the director of the Babson College Summer Baseball Camp, one of the most succesful youth summer baseball camps in New England. Each summer, hundreds of local ball players enjoyed expert coaching and fun with baseball. Many have gone on to highly succesful careers in the high school, college and professional baseball. Prior to his arrival at Babson, Noone spent 12 seasons as the pitching coach at Northeastern University, where the Huskies twice captured America East titles and appeared in the NCAA Tournament regionals. Under Noone, the Huskies' pitching staff was consistently recognized as one of the finest in New England. Noone's 1999 pitching staff led America East and the ECAC Northeast Division in ERA and fewest walks per nine innings pitched. Noone has also spent time in the prestigious Cape Cod League as a pitching coach for the Bourne Braves in 1995 and 1996 and the Hyannis Mets in 1999. In 2003, he was the manager of the Bourne Braves. Over the years, Noone has coached thousands of young people in baseball clinics, in both group and individual settings. The Matt Noone Baseball Clinics have helped prospective student-athletes to reach their potential by providing high quality instruction in a positive learning environment. The goal of the clinics is to improve the skills of students of all levels, from beginners to professional athletes. For the past nine years, Noone has been a Major League staff assistant for the Boston Red Sox, serving as the left-handed batting practice thrower and working as an assistant to the hitting coach. Noone is a pround owner of World Series rings from the 2004 and 2007 Boston Red Sox. A 1990 graduate of Princeton University, Noone was a captain and a four-year letter winner as a pitcher and outfielder for Princeton. He was a two-time First Team All-Ivy selection and a Northeast Regional First Team All American for the Tigers. Noone currently resides with his family in Needham, Massachusetts.
