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Coaching Staff

Jon Shehan
Head Coach

In just four seasons, Millersville alum Jon Shehan has built the Marauder baseball program into a contender at the conference, regional and national levels.

He inherited a club that went 9-37 in 2007 but has since won two PSAC Eastern Division crowns, a NCAA Atlantic Region Championship, and produced the winningest season in school history. Shehan, a 2006 graduate of Millersville, boasts 114 wins and was the second-fastest in school history to 100 career wins. He also ranks second all-time in career winning percentage. He has developed 22 All-PSAC East honorees, eight All-Atlantic Region selections, four Atlantic Region Gold Glove winners and a Major League Baseball draft pick.
 
Shehan led his club to a dominating 44-12 record in the 2011 season. His squad posted a 37-8 regular season record and won the PSAC East going away. The 19-5 record was seven games better than the runner-up. It was his second PSAC East crown in four seasons. The Marauders went on to sweep the NCAA Atlantic Regional as its top seed and reached the NCAA Division II Championship for just the second time in school history.

The team led or ranked second in the PSAC in 20 stat categories. At season's end, six Marauders were named All-PSAC East and seven gained All-Atlantic Region mention. Shehan was named ABCA Atlantic Region Coach of the Year.
 
Shehan's first PSAC Eastern Division title came in 2008. As a first-year interim head coach, he guided the program to its first division championship in eight years. Millersville also made its first playoff appearance since 2000 and won two postseason contests. The success came from a team which had finished 9-37 the season before and opened up 2008 with a 6-20 record. Millersville then won 16 of its next 18 games to finish 12-8 in the division and 24-26 overall.
 
The remarkable turnaround earned him PSAC East Coach of the Year honors. Shehan’s guidance helped his players earn four All-PSAC East selections, the PSAC East Rookie of the Year award and a regional gold glove.
 
In 2009, he guided the Marauders its second-straight season of 24 victories and also posted the programs first winning season in eight years. At season’s end, pitcher Derek Kline was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the MLB First-Year Player draft, becoming Millersville’s first selection since 2001.
 
Prior to becoming head coach, Shehan completed a two-year stint as the Marauder assistant coach/recruiting coordinator. His duties included working with the Marauder hitters and catchers. He was given the tough responsibility of rebuilding the Marauder roster during the 2006-07 academic year. His first recruiting class resulted in 16 commitments, including nine high school signings and seven transfers.
 
As a the hitting coach in 2006, Shehan helped the Marauders improve their offensive statistics from 2005 in almost every category, including average (.267 to .307), on base percentage (.339 to .372), slugging percentage (.360 to .424) and home runs (12 to 26).
 
Shehan, a career .328 hitter at Millersville, finished his Marauder playing career in 2004. He earned All-PSAC First Team honors as a catcher and led the NCAA in doubles per game (0.60). Shehan broke the Marauder single-season record for doubles (23) and led the squad in nearly every offensive category, including batting average (.397), slugging percentage (.678), hits (48), runs (30), and RBIs (28).
 
Following his final season with the Marauders, Shehan signed a free agent contract with the Atlanta Braves organization. In 2004, he played for the Gulf Coast Braves before earning a promotion to single-A Rome. In 2005, he was a member of the Appalachian League Eastern Division-Champion Danville Braves. Also in 2005, Shehan was the catching instructor for the Pennsylvania AAA High School State Champion Lampeter-Strasburg Pioneers.
 
He is currently a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association.
 
Shehan received a bachelor’s degree in technology education from Millersville in 2006 and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in sport management. Shehan and his wife, Lindsay (Millersville ’04) are the parents of two sons: Cole and Benjamin.

Nolan Neiman
Assistant Coach

Nolan Neiman joined the Millersville staff prior to the 2012 season and comes from the University of Maryland where he served as an assistant coach for two seasons. Neiman boasts an extensive and impressive resume, coaching and developing players at the highest level of college baseball.
 
At the University of Maryland, Neiman’s responsibilities included coaching the catchers and hitters, coaching third base on game days and assisting with the day-to-day operations of the team. He arrived in College Park after spending the 2009 season as the assistant coach at the Florida Gulf Coast University, where he helped guide the Eagles to a 36-18 overall record.
 
Florida Golf Coast also won the Atlantic Sun regular season championship with a 23-7 conference mark that year. Neiman saw a trio of Eagles named All-Atlantic Sun First Team, led by starting pitcher Chris Sale, who was the Chicago White Sox first round selection and the 15th pick overall in the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft. Also under his tutelage, catcher Bobby Green threw out 56 percent of would-be base stealers, ranking first in the conference.
 
Prior to his stint at FGCU, Neiman spent the 2007 and 2008 seasons as the top assistant and recruiting coordinator at his alma mater, DeSales University. In 2008 Neiman played a strong role in guiding the Bulldogs to a Freedom Conference Championship. In two seasons, Neiman helped four Bulldogs earn All-Mid-Atlantic Region honors, 15 were named to the All-Freedom Conference team and the team claimed back-to-back conference rookie of the year awards. 
 
Before joining the Bulldogs, Neiman served as an assistant coach at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he served as the head coach for the New Market Rebels in the Valley League in 2008 and the Limeport Milkmen in 2007. Overall Neiman has seen 28 former players sign professional contracts.
 
Neiman attended DeSales University where he was a three-year starter for the Bulldogs. He helped lead the Bulldogs to four consecutive Freedom Conference Championships, four NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournaments, helped capture the school's first-ever regional championship and was a member of the only team in school history to advance to the NCAA Division III College World Series in 2003.
 
At DeSales, Neiman earned All-Freedom honors three times, was named the Freedom Conference Player of the Year his junior year and earned American Baseball Coaches Association all Mid-Atlantic Regional honors three times. After graduation Neiman played professionally for the New Jersey Jackals in the Cam Am League.
 
He graduated with a bachelor's degree in sports management. Neiman and his wife Melissa reside in Columbia, Maryland.

Robert Preli
Pitching Coach

Robert Preli joined the Millersville baseball coaching staff in the fall of 2009 to serve as the team's pitching coach, and he has developed one of the top pitching staffs in the region.
 
In 2011, Preli's pitchers paved the way to a PSAC East title and NCAA Atlantic Region Championship with a 3.11 team ERA and .228 batting average against. The Marauders ranked second in the PSAC in both categories. Three of his hurlers earned All-Atlantic Region recognition. Brooks Rothschild led the PSAC in wins, and Zach Eckley led the league in saves for the second year in a row.
 
In Preli's first season, the pitching staff's ERA improved by more than a half run and moved from 10th in the PSAC to fifth. Millersville also ranked second in walks allowed and complete games. Two of his starters ranked in the top 10 in ERA and innings pitched and another was fourth in opponent's batting average. He also oversaw the transformation of Eckley from starter to closer, a project that worked to near perfection with Eckley tying for the league lead in saves.
 
Preli arrived at Millersville with more than 20 years of coaching and recruiting at all levels of the sport. He was the pitching coach at the University of the Ozarks in 2007 and 2008. During those two seasons, he coached three All-Americans, six all-region honorees, 20 all-conference selections and three academic All-Americans. Two of his players also signed professional contracts.

In 2007, he helped the program to a 24-21 record, and in 2008, the squad posted a 32-11 record. That club climbed as high as No. 14 in the nation. His pitching staff's ERA ranked second in the conference, and its walk to strikeout ratio was 2:1.

In addition to coaching high school and American Legion baseball, Preli worked as a scout for the Cleveland Indians. During that time, he established recruiting contacts all over the nation. Preli has also conducted clinics for underpriviledged players in Gloucester, Va., Shippensburg, Pa., Richmond, Va., Clarksville, Ark., and Washington, D.C.

As an athlete, Preli was a standout player at Gonzaga High School in Washington, D.C. He was signed by the Cleveland Indians in 1970. After one season with Erie of the New York-Penn League, he was drafted to serve in Vietnam, ending his playing career. He joined the Coast Guard and went on to serve the United States for 25 years. He retired as a master chief petty officer.
 
Preli completed his bachelor's degree in liberal arts with minors in sociology and administration and managerial studies from Regents College in 2003.

He has been married for 36 years to Patricia Preli. The couple has four children: Nick, Joe, Elaine and Vincent. They also have one grandson: Anthony.

Miles Gallagher
Graduate Assistant

Following an outstanding baseball career, Miles Gallagher returned to his alma mater as a graduate assistant in the department of athletics and as an assistant baseball coach.

Gallagher graduated from Millersville in 2010 with a degree in government and political affairs. He was a standout on the baseball diamond, serving as Millersville's catcher for three seasons after transferring in from Pittsburgh.

The Lancaster, Pa., native started 131 games in three seasons including all 47 during his senior year. He posted a career batting average of .298 with 14 homers and 86 RBIs. He hit over .300 twice, and as a senior he led the team in hitting (.310), hits (49), doubles (13), home runs (six), RBIs (41), total bases (80), slugging percentage (.506) and was 9-for-9 in stolen base attempts.
 
Gallagher was named All-PSAC East Second Team in his junior and senior seasons . During his first season with the program, he helped the Marauders to a PSAC Eastern Division title. Twice he was a PSAC Scholar-Athlete.

Gallagher is currently working toward a master's degree in sport management.