Nick Garritano built a baseball powerhouse at CSN. Can he do it at UNLV?

Coach Nick Garritano, formerly of Green Valley High School, calls to players during signifier astatine the College of Southern Nevada successful Henderson Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Photo by: Steve Marcus

UNLV didn’t person to look acold to find its adjacent shot coach.

Nick Garritano, who compiled a 632-271 grounds successful 16 seasons astatine the College of Southern Nevada, was announced arsenic the Rebels adjacent manager connected Friday, the assemblage said successful a quality release.

Garritano is nary alien to the university.

He is 1 of the astir celebrated kickers successful UNLV shot history, finishing arsenic the second-leading scorer successful programme past and helping the Rebels triumph the 1994 Las Vegas Bowl. He was inducted into the UNLV Athletics Hall of Fame successful 2010.

Garritano guided CSN the NJCAA World Series successful 2017 and 2024. He was the league manager of the twelvemonth 7 times.

CSN produced 22 MLB Draft selections and much than 190 players precocious to four-year programs.

“Nick Garritano is simply a proven winner, a respected leader, and a existent Rebel,” said Erick Harper, the UNLV manager of athletics successful a statement. “His grounds of occurrence speaks for itself, and helium has a heavy transportation to UNLV and the Southern Nevada community. Nick has developed title programs, prepared young men for occurrence connected and disconnected the field, and built lasting relationships passim Las Vegas. We are excited to invited him backmost to field to pb our shot programme and constitute the adjacent section of Rebel baseball.”

Before his clip astatine CSN, Garritano spent 12 seasons coaching Green Valley High School, compiling a 316-118 grounds and starring the programme to authorities championships successful 2001 and 2003.

Garritano replaces the retiring Stan Stolte. The programme past played successful the NCAA Tournament successful 2014. It has ne'er been to the College World Series.

Garritano, with heavy section ties, hopes to alteration that. He’s a proven fundraiser astatine CSN and volition request to rally enactment successful gathering a roster successful this epoch of NIL.

“The accidental to instrumentality implicit the UNLV shot programme is genuinely a imagination travel true,” Garritano said successful a statement. “Having lived successful Las Vegas for 48 years, I grew up watching and supporting each facet of UNLV athletics, creating a lifelong transportation to the University. My passionateness for the Rebels deepened erstwhile I played shot astatine UNLV, proudly representing my hometown schoolhouse connected the field. Being inducted into the UNLV Athletics Hall of Fame was an grant I ne'er thought could beryllium matched, until this moment.”