EWING, N.J. – TCNJ Director of Athletics Liz Shatkus announced the appointment of Joe Godri as the school’s interim head baseball coach on Wednesday.
Godri most recently served as the head coach at Villanova University from 2002-2016 and becomes just the third Lions coach in the last 43 years. He succeeds Dean Glus, who retired this fall. TCNJ will open a national search for a permanent head baseball coach at the conclusion of the 2025 season.
Godri amassed 360 wins in 15 seasons at the helm of the Wildcats, guiding Villanova to two 30-win seasons and two appearances in the BIG EAST Championship during his tenure. His 360 career victories are the second-most in the history of the program.
Godri oversaw plenty of individual success with the Wildcats, coaching 28 All-BIG EAST selections and three All-Americans, with 24 players going on to get drafted into the pros. As a result, he was named to the USA Baseball selection committee in the summer of 2006, assisting in player selection for the collegiate National Team – a team that won gold in the World Championships held in Cuba.
Prior to his time at Villanova, Godri served as the head assistant coach at New Mexico State from 1994-97 where he helped the Aggies break into the national rankings for the first time in program history. He then spent one season as an associate scout for the Cleveland Indians, spending the next two years on the pitching staff at the University of Utah before beginning his long-standing tenure as the head coach of the Wildcats during the 2001-2002 academic year.
Following 26 consecutive years as a Division I coach, Godri briefly stepped away to serve as the Director of Athletics at Penn State Schuylkill from 2017-2021, but will make his return to the diamond to join a TCNJ program that is just two seasons removed from winning its eighth NJAC title since 2000.
Godri played collegiate baseball at Colorado State, earning his bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Pittsburgh and his master’s in marketing and management from New Mexico State.
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