Frank Battaglia joined the Hofstra baseball staff as an assistant coach in August 2025. Battaglia, who coached on Frank Catalanotto’s staff at NYIT, spent the past five seasons at Adelphi University.
During his five seasons on the staff at Adelphi, Battaglia helped the Panthers to 114 victories, two NE10 Southwest Division titles, and an appearance in the 2022 NCAA Division II Championship.
Prior to his stint at Adelphi, Battaglia was an assistant coach at NYIT from 2018 to 2020 and also served as the department’s equipment manager. He was part of the Bears’ Division II College World Series team in 2019. From 2011 to 2015, Battaglia was a teacher and baseball coach at the Portledge School in Locust Valley, New York. He led his squads to two Private School Athletic Association championships and received three New York State Association of Independent Schools Tournament bids, beginning with the school’s first-ever bid in 2014. He took an assistant athletic director position at the school in 2015 and left in 2018 to go to NYIT. Battaglia began his coaching career at his alma mater, Queens College as an assistant coach and took over as head coach at the start of his fourth season in 2002, becoming one of the youngest head coaches in the nation.
Battaglia played collegiate baseball at Queensborough Community College for two seasons, before moving to Queens, where he helped the Knights to their first-ever league title as a senior captain. Battaglia graduated with a degree in media studies from Queens in 2001.
A Franklin Square, New York, resident, Battaglia and his wife Kristen, a former Queens College softball player, have one daughter, Kaitlyn.
