SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Wofford College head baseball coach J.J. Edwards has made two additions to the coaching staff. Pat Brown has been named pitching coach and Frederic Reynolds is the director of player development.
 
Brown comes to Wofford after serving as pitching coach at St. Joseph's University and Reynolds spent last season as a graduate manager at Ole Miss. They join returning assistant coaches Josh Schulman and Hudson Byorick to complete the staff for the upcoming season.
 
Pat Brown completed his third season as the pitching coach at St. Joseph's in 2023. In each of his three seasons the Hawks reached the Atlantic 10 postseason, culminating in the program's first-ever A-10 regular season title in 2023.
 
"Pat has a proven track record of success and development with a pitching staff," said Edwards. "He is going to be a great addition to our staff and program. We happy to welcome him and his wife Katy to our Wofford Baseball family."
 
A number of Hawks have seen their careers rise to a new level under Brown's tutelage.  In 2021, Hayden Seig went on to sign a free agent contract with the Los Angeles Angels organization. The following season, Matt McShane earned Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Freshman All-America honors and a place on the Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team. Domenic Picone was named to the All-Conference Second Team in 2023, becoming just the fifth SJU starting pitcher to earn All-Conference honors since the Hawks joined the league 40 years earlier.
 
Brown joined the Hawks from Carson-Newman University, where he had been coaching since the summer of 2019.  Prior to his stint in Tennessee, Brown spent two seasons at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, where he helped guide the Knights to a MAC Commonwealth title and an NCAA Tournament bid in 2017. Mike Boulanger and Joel Bartoni each earned First Team All-Conference honors in 2017 and 2018, respectively, with Bartoni nabbing a pair of All-Region nods as well.
 
Brown began his coaching career at Bloomsburg University after graduating from SUNY Oswego in 2015. The Liverpool, New York, native made 38 appearances out of the bullpen for the Lakers, notching four career saves and posting a 3.67 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 72.1 innings.  He was a member of SUNY Oswego's NCAA Regional team as a senior.
 
Frederic Reynolds spent the past season as a graduate student manager at Ole Miss. The team was 25-29 overall last season as he assisted with daily practices and operations. He also assisted the director of analytics with advance scouting of opponents. He received a masters of sports analytics from Ole Miss in 2023 with a concentration in sports business.
 
"Frederic is a young man who has put in his time and has shown he is willing to work hard to make any program he touches better," said Edwards. "He did a great job at Ole Miss and we are excited to see what he can do for our program."
 
A native of Pascagoula, Mississippi, he was a catcher at East Mississippi Community College during the 2019 and 2020 seasons, earning MACCC All-Academic first team honors. He was also a NJCAA first team Academic All-American. He earned his bachelor degree in biochemistry from Mississippi State in 2022, where he was a Presidential Scholar.