After 27 seasons, nine NCAA Tournament appearances and more than 700 wins, Charlie Hickey is reportedly retiring from his post as head baseball coach at Central Connecticut State, according to D1baseball.com.
Long-time Blue Devils assistant, Pat Hall, will reportedly step into the head coaching role after 18 seasons as an assistant in New Britain.
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Hickey, a 1987 UConn alum from Middletown, took the CCSU job in 2000 after beginning his college coaching career as an assistant at Providence in 1992. He was promoted to head coach of the Friars following the 1996 season and was there until the program was cut in 1999, going 106-61 over three seasons with an NCAA Regional appearance.
Hickey will retire with a career record of 818-669-5.
It took just three years for him to get the Blue Devils to the Division I NCAA Tournament for the first time in 2002. That began a run of three straight NCAA bids, including in 2004, when CCSU won a program record 41 games in the regular season. The program’s only NCAA Tournament win came in 2019, 7-4 over California, before it was eliminated by TCU in the next game.
Hall began his coaching career as a pitching coach at the University of Bridgeport, where he played and was named team captain in 1998. He went on to Fairfield as a pitching coach and recruiting coordinator from 2005-08 before he joined Hickey at CCSU.
