Wofford College Athletics

Matt LaMothe joined the Wofford baseball staff in the spring of 2021 as the volunteer assistant coach. He is in his third season working with the pitching staff, now alongside Josh Schulman.
    
The Terriers repeated as regular season Southern Conference Champions in 2022 with a 42-16-1 overall record and a 16-4-1 SoCon mark. It was the first 40-win campaign in school history with the 42 victories a program record. Wofford reached the championship series of the Southern Conference Tournament for the third time in program history before falling short to UNCG. Five Terriers earned First-Team All-SoCon honors, including starting pitcher Matthew Marchal. Also recognized among LaMothe's pitching staff were Dalton Rhadans and Josh Vitus on the Second Team and Carter Bailey and Coulson Buchanan on the All-Freshman Team. Wofford led the league with a 4.66 ERA and set a new program record for strikeouts pitched with 506.

Wofford won the first regular season Southern Conference Championship in school history in 2021. The team was 36-21 overall and 21-9 in league play, which were the most conference wins in school history. Elliot Carney was named the Southern Conference Pitcher of the Year and earned first team All-Conference honors, while Dalton Rhadans was first team All-Conference as a relief pitcher. They were joined by Colin Davis (SoCon Player of the Year), Jack Renwick, Lawson Hill and Nolen Hester earned league honors. Renwick and TreyYunger were named to the All-Freshman Team. The Terriers had a 5.01 ERA that was third in the Southern Conference and the .259 opposing batting average ranked first. The team combined for 492 strikeouts, which was second in the league and tied for the third-most in school history.
    
LaMothe was an assistant coach for the Young Harris College baseball program in 2020. The team was 9-9 overall and 3-6 in the Peach Belt Conference during the shortened season. The pitching staff had 164 strikeouts in 151.1 innings and had an opponent batting average of .246.
    
A native of Rochester, Michigan, LaMothe spent the 2019 season as the assistant coach for Peach Belt Conference foe Georgia Southwestern State University. He was responsible for pitching and recruiting duties at Georgia Southwestern State, helping turn the program around for the Hurricanes going from 10 wins in 2018 to 23 wins in 2019. He helped develop the PBC Pitcher of the Year Tucker Smith.
    
Prior to Georgia Southwestern, LaMothe coached at Madison College, located in Madison, Wisconsin, for one season. He helped the WolfPack finish the season 35-22, sweeping the regional tournament and going to the NJCAA Division II World Series in Enid, Oklahoma, where the WolfPack placed fifth.
    
For the two years before to Madison College, LaMothe was a graduate assistant and pitching coach at Central Methodist University where he graduated with his master’s degree in education. He assisted the Eagles to their two best seasons in program history, going 44-17 and 42-17 while gaining a bid to NAIA National Championship Opening Round in both seasons.
    
During his playing career, LaMothe attended Oakland University from 2008-10, before transferring to Georgia College from 2010-13. He was named to the All-Peach Belt second team and the 2013 PBC Tournament MVP as he pitched two of four complete games to help the Bobcats capture the tournament. He played one independent professional season for the Schaumburg Boomers of the Frontier League, where they won the 2013 Frontier League Championship.

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