Pat Collins-Bride is entering his fifth season with the Indiana Tech baseball team and his first as a full-time assistant coach and is in charge of hitters, catchers, infielders and pitch calling. Since joining the Orange and Black, he has helped the team compile a record of 160-82 with three appearances in the NAIA Opening Round and the 2018 Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) regular season championship.
In addition to his duties with the baseball team, Collins-Bride serves as a strength and conditioning coach with several Tech teams, including the men's and women's basketball team, the women's lacrosse team, the women's soccer team and the women's volleyball team.
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Prior to his arrival at Tech, Collins-Bride spent two years as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Ave Maria University, where he was in charge of hitters, infielders, catchers and baserunners and helped the team go 60-51 in the programs third and fourth seasons. During his playing days with the Gyrenes, he recorded 73 hits, 16 doubles, one home run, 25 RBI's and 50 runs in 101 games over two years. He also spent over a decade with the San Francisco Seals, a summer wood bat team, as a player and coach, including the last five as the skipper of the team.
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He graduated from Ave Maria University in 2013 with a degree in Politics and earned his MBA in Marketing and Management from Indiana Tech in 2016. He currently resides in Fort Wayne.
