Dan Gooley - Baseball Coach - Quinnipiac University Athletics

Dan Gooley

Title:
Director of Operations

Former Quinnipiac legend Dan “Skip” Gooley returns to the Bobcat dugout as a member of head coach John Delaney’s staff as the director of baseball operations for the 2022 season. Quinnipiac baseball’s all-time wins leader as a manager, Gooley boasts 430 career wins in 24 seasons as the Bobcats’ skipper, including 235 at the NCAA Div. I level. Over his career, Gooley registered 542 career wins between his time at Quinnipiac and the University of Hartford, the second-most career victories at Quinnipiac behind current men’s ice hockey coach Rand Pecknold.

Gooley led Quinnipiac to four consecutive 20-win seasons between 2004-2007 in his second stint with the Bobcats, including a then program-record 29 wins during the 2007 season. Prior to that in 2005, Gooley guided the Bobcats to 26 wins and the program’s first NEC Championship and NCAA Regional berth.

Prior to rejoining Quinnipiac in 2002, Gooley led the clubhouse at University of Hartford in 1988. He guided Hartford through the 1992 season before leaving college baseball to oversee Major League Baseball operations for the Starter Corporation, based out of New Haven, Conn.

In his original stint as Quinnipiac’s skipper from 1977-1987, Gooley led the Bobcats to 205 wins. During that period, Quinnipiac, then a Div. II program, reached three NCAA Div. II Tournaments and one Division II College World Series under Gooley.

A standout as a player for the Bobcats, Gooley holds the school’s career strikeout record with 316, ranks second with a career 2.47 earned run average and is tied for third with 20 career victories. He was inducted int the Quinnipiac Athletics Hall of Fame in 1983.