Rochester Institute of Technology Baseball

Rob Grow, RIT's all-time leader in coaching wins and 2006 RIT Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, begins his 34th season at the helm of the Tiger baseball squad in 2026. In 2017, Grow and the Tigers enjoyed their finest season in program history, winning the Liberty League Championship for the first time, while making their first NCAA Division III Baseball Championship appearance. The 2018 Tigers won 20 games and advanced to the Liberty League Championship Tournament for the third time in the last four seasons. Grow is a 1988 graduate of RIT, where he played three years of baseball for the Tigers as an outfielder. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in business, Grow was an assistant coach at Rush-Henrietta High School, where in 1990 he helped guide the squad to a Section V title. He has coached over 100 All-Empire 8 selections and 28 different All-Liberty League players, along with 31 ABCA/Rawlings All-Stars. Four of his former players are in the RIT Sports Hall of Fame. He resides in Victor with his wife Suzanne and three children.

Tyler Leichtenberger enters his third year as a part-time assistant coach for the Tigers, after spending seven years as a volunteer assistant and a year as a graduate assistant following a standout career on the mound for the Tigers from 2011-14. As a player and a coach, Leichtenberger has been at the forefront of RIT's rise to prominence since moving to the Liberty League in 2012. Under Leichtenberger's guidance, the 2017 Tigers won a school-record 33 games, won its first Liberty League Championship and advanced to the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship for the first time. RIT set single-season program records for highest winning percentage (.785), highest fielding percentage (.973), runs scored (317), hits (432), doubles (105), home runs (23), runs batted in (287), total bases (642), slugging percentage (.452), and walks (191). The pitching staff re-wrote the school record book with the most strikeouts (319), shutouts (4), strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.22), and lowest WHIP (1.19). RIT advanced to the 2018 Liberty League Championship Tournament for the third time in four seasons and won 20 games. Leichtenberger pitched in various roles on the staff during his four years as a starter and a reliever. A two-time All-Liberty League selection, he holds school records for both saves in a season (7) and career (14), and is fifth all-time in appearances (49). Upon finishing his playing days, Leichtenberger started his coaching career by joining the RIT staff as a graduate assistan