Steve Serratore - Baseball Coach - Air Force Academy Athletics

Steve Serratore

Title:
Volunteer Assistant Coach
Email:
serratore.usafa@gmail.com
Phone:
719-333-2282

Steve Serratore enters his second season as the volunteer assistant coach for the Falcons in 2021.

Serratore assists in offensive development, coaches third base, leads in developing the catchers, assists in compiling scouting reports for upcoming opponents, and runs camps.

Serratore spent the fall of 2019 at St. Cloud State as an assistant coach, leading in the offensive development of the team, as well as leading the defensive development, primarily with the catchers, but assisting at all other positions. He also had a hand in all camps and clinics, and helped with the recruiting efforts for the program.

In the summer of 2019, Serratore was the hitting coach for the Mankato Moondogs, a Northwoods League collegiate summer team in Minnesota. There, he was the primary offensive coach, assisted in defensive development, while also coaching first and third base. He also assisted in the recruitment of the roster.

During the 2019 college season, Serratore was the volunteer assistant coach for the Bowling Green State University Falcons. There, he held similar roles as a primary offensive developer, as well as being in charge of defensive development for the catchers. He also coached first base and helped with the compiling of scouting reports for upcoming opponents.

From 2017-18, he was the hitting coach at Des Moines Area Community College. As the primary hitting and catching coordinator, the team went 26-26 in 2018, while making a run to the conference tournament finals. As a team, the offense finished with a .322 batting average, including 96 doubles, 19 triples, 48 HRs, and 86 stolen bases.

As a player, Serratore began his career at DMACC, before transferring to Kansas State for his final three years of eligibility. While at DMACC, he was named First Team All-Conference in 2013. Then at K-State, Serratore was an All-Big 12 Defensive Team member at third base in 2015, and was then named to the Academic All-Conference First Team in 2016.

In his redshirt senior year at K-State in 2017, Serratore played in a career-best 49 games (49 starts) with a .292 average, .400 OBP and .466 SLG. He set career highs in hits (52), triples (2), home runs (6) and RBIs (42), and was second on team in RBIs, two-out RBIs, and with 12 multi-RBI games.

While at K-State, Serratore was also a member of the Leadership Academy, which was a selected group of student-athletes from each athletic team meeting and discussing how they could be better leaders for their programs and themselves. He also went with a group of student-athletes to Nicaragua, and partnered with the Courts for Kids organization to build a multipurpose court for a local community.

Serratore hails from Austin, Minnesota and prepped at Rochester Mayo High School. He is the son of Joe and Kathy Serratore and has one sister, Sam. Two of his Uncle’s are in the NCAA Ice Hockey coaching ranks, as Uncle Frank is here at the Academy, and Uncle Tom is the head hockey coach at Bemidji State.