Jimmy Goelz, a former professional baseball player and assistant coach at New York Tech, is in his fourth season on the Hofstra baseball staff in 2024-25. He came to Hofstra in August 2021 and served as the volunteer assistant during the Pride's 2022 Colonial Athletic Association championship season.
Goelz, was a 16th round MLB Draft pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1998 and spent nearly seven years in the minor leagues with the Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, and Miami Marlins organizations. Goelz advanced as high as AAA ball with both Cleveland and Boston.
An infielder and outfielder, Goelz played 463 games at the minor league level and batted .231 with 56 doubles, six triples, 116 RBIs and 161 runs scored. In 2005, Goelz joined the Long Island Ducks and played in 86 games over two seasons.
Following his retirement from baseball, Goelz served as an associate scout for the Colorado Rockies from February 2007 through June 2013 and was also the co-owner of Prospect Sports in Farmingdale, New York, from 2007 to 2016.
He began his coaching career in 1998 as an assistant coach at Briarcliffe College in Bethpage, New York, a position he held until November 2005. In 2015, Goelz became head baseball coach at St. Dominic High School in Oyster Bay, New York, and was the 2018 Catholic High School Athletic Association Coach of the Year. He led the Bayhawks to two CHSAA Finals and developed two players – Kyle Young and Reiss Knehr – that went on to become MLB Draft selections.
Goelz joined Coach Catalanotto at New York Tech in 2018 and helped coach the Bears to the 2019 East Region championship and a berth in the NCAA Division II College World Series. He was responsible for the development of all position players while overseeing alumni relations and fundraising efforts for the program.
A 1998 graduate of New York Tech with a degree in business management, Goelz also holds an associate’s degree from Suffolk Community College. A resident of St. James, New York, he has two sons – Chase and Carter.
