Bill Angelo is entering his 27th season as ECC’s baseball head coach. He has had nearly 820 wins since he began his coaching career in 1998.
“I love my time here,” he said. “I kinda fell in love with the school when I was a player here. You know, I always had a great experience here playing.”
When he played on the baseball team, his position was catcher from1989-1991.
“Just felt like I kinda found myself as a person,” he said. “Grew up a lot while I was here.”
After Angelo completed ECC, he transferred to Benedictine University, where he studied psychology.
“I just really fell in love with like how the mind works and how your outlook on things can kinda change your outcomes,” he said.
Angelo mentioned that baseball is 95% physical and 5% mental.
“Psychology is huge in baseball because if somebody’s mental state is not in a good place, they’re gonna lack motivation to work harder.”
His knowledge in psychology impacts how he coaches his players because he wants them to succeed both on and off the field.
“5% mental affects the entire 95% of the physical part. so it’s pretty fascinating on how the mind will dictate performance you know on anything,” he said. “Anything that you have more confidence in than having less confidence, you’re gonna do a better job.”
Before Angelo became ECC’s head basedball coach, he was an assistant coach at Benedictine University, his alma mater.
His dad was his inspiration to become a baseball head coach.
“He was always my coach,” he said. “When I was growing up through the league, through all like football, baseball and basketball.”
2005 was Angelo’s best year of head coaching career.
“We were 54-10,” he said. “We came in third in the country at the world series. It was a special year. We won the championship in our region. We won the championship in our district.”
The coach is confident that the team will be okay this season.
“We played a top caliber schedule, and we’ve been tested early. We’ve faced the best competition that we’re gonna face all year.”
Coach Angelo’s coaching style is very interactional.
“We want to create an environment that is conducive for guys to come out and reach their full potential as baseball players, as students and human beings.”
