EMMITSBURG, Md. (July 17, 2024) – Mount St. Mary's baseball coach Frank Leoni has brought on Anthony Spataro and recent graduate Tyler Long as members of the coaching staff for the 2025 season. Spataro joins the team as Assistant Coach while Long will serve as Director of Baseball Operations.
 
Spataro is no stranger to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), working with Marist and Siena in the past. He spent the past two seasons in Poughkeepsie with the Red Foxes, helping them clinch a berth to the 2024 MAAC Championship. Marist ranked top 25 nationally in triples, featured a top offensive team, and were prolific on the base paths, the latter of which Spataro served as lead coach for the staff. The Red Foxes were 49^th in Division I this past season, and 14^th the year before, leading the MAAC with 120 steals.
 
Before his time in Poughkeepsie, he also worked on staff at Army, guiding the Black Knights to the 2022 Patriot League Championship and NCAA Regional in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Spataro also spent four seasons with the Siena Saints, beginning as a volunteer assistant in 2018 before joining the full-time staff in 2020. Additional stops include assistant positions at The College at Brockport and with the Amsterdam Mohawks in New York. Spataro has a bachelor's degree from Brockport and a Master's degree from Canisius.
 
Long completed his four-year tenure as the Mount's starting shortstop this past spring, punctuated by the team's postseason run at the conclusion of the season during the MAAC Championship. He ranks first in the record books with 148 runs scored in a career, while finishing second for hit by pitches and tied for second in walks. Long was named a Second Team All-MAAC selection as a junior.
 
Graduating with an elementary education and special education degree, he earned experience with nearby Thurmont Middle and Thurmont Elementary school, as well as Annville Elementary School in his hometown. On the coaching circuit, he worked tournaments and camps both at Mount St. Mary's and at various tournaments in south central Pennsylvania, while also offering coaching lessons as a private instructor. 
 
The duo enters the staff in place of Aaron Tarr and Tristan McAlister, who moved on to pursue other opportunities.
 
Mount St. Mary's finished the 2024 season with a 22-34-1 record, capped off by a 15-6 stretch run and a semifinals appearance at the MAAC Championship, winning postseason games for the first time since 2008.