Bio

Brian McCabe returned to his alma mater as the head coach for Clarke University baseball in the summer of 2023 as the Pride's ninth head coach in the history of the program.

Prior to this return to Dubuque for McCabe, he served as the head coach at Benedictine University Mesa in Mesa, Ariz. for the previous five seasons where he compiled a 176-78-1 record for the Redhawks baseball program since 2019 that included two trips to the NAIA Tournament (2021, 2023). 

He bookended his tenure at BenU Mesa with 40-win seasons in 2019 (45-15-1) and 2023 (44-14) where he received California Pacific Conference Coach of the Year in each season as the Redhawks earned the Cal-Pac Regular Season Championship most recently in 2023.

McCabe also played a pivotal role in establishing the BenU Mesa baseball, serving as an assistant coach for the first two years of the program in 2017 and 2018, handling a good portion of the recruiting duties as well as serving as pitching coach for a program that went 76-35. The pitching staff he developed spawned an NAIA All-American, Cal Pac Pitcher of the Year, three All-Cal Pac pitchers and four different Cal Pac Pitchers of the Week. 

The Lena, Ill. native competed at Clarke as a left-handed pitcher for the Pride from 2009 to 2013 where he would go on to spend two years on the Clarke baseball coaching staff  before departing for Phoenix College to continue his coaching career then eventually arriving at BenU Mesa.