Meet the Coach

Juan Ranero returns for a second stint with the Buccaneer baseball program as head coach in 2017.

With 20 years’ experience as a college head coach, Ranero carries a 542-390-5 career mark and is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA).

Ranero spent two seasons at Sunshine State Conference foe Eckerd, where the Tritons went 37-55. He won his 500th game with a 14-11 triumph over Florida Southern on April 18, 2015.

Ranero spent 14 seasons in two stints at Rowan, winning more than 350 games there from 1994-98 and 2006-14. He led the Profs to five straight trips to the NCAA Division III national tournament and won three New Jersey Athletic Conference coach of the year awards (1997, 2010, 2011). He was named the New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association Coach of the Year following the spring of 2013 and the Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year in 2014 by the ABCA.

At Barry, from 2002-05, he went 109-103-1 and mentored 13 All- SSC picks in four years and had six players sign professionally, including MLB draftees Joey Apotheker (2002) and Alex Meneses (2006).

Prior to his tenure at Barry, Ranero served as an instructor and head baseball coach at Westminster Christian School for two years. He compiled a 49-18 overall record and guided the Warriors to back-to-back District Championships.

Before his years at Westminster, Ranero served as a recruiting coordinator and pitching coach at Old Dominion University, a top-25 NCAA Division I baseball program in the 90’s and Appalachian State.