HITTING | FIELDING INSTRUCTOR

Jim Priscaro has been a College infield, hitting and catching coach for the past 6 years. Coach Priscaro has also been the 1st and 3rd base coach and assists with recruiting.  Jim recently accepted the job as the Head Assistant Baseball Coach at Menlo College.

Priscaro’s coaching experience began at Cupertino High School as a head coach for two years starting in 2003. His next stop was Westmont High School as an assistant coach, where he helped lead the warriors to the CCS playoffs. In 2007 he was an assistant at Leland High School with Anthony Siri, a team that took 2nd in the league and made the first round of CCS.

He began his college career playing at De Anza Junior College and then transferred to the University of Massachusetts-Boston where he was twice an all league player as a 3rd baseman. During his 3 years at UMASS-Boston he was in the top ten in hitting in the Little East Conference two times. He then continued playing ball in the Boston Park League in 2001. James made the All Star team as a shortstop and was fifth in hitting in the league that year.

Priscaro holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Masters in Kinesiology from Fresno Pacific University and he resides in Santa Clara, CA.