Baseball
- Title:
- Baseball Head Coaching Chair
- Email:
- baseball@brown.edu
- Joined Brown:
- June 2025
- Alma Mater:
- Wheaton '13
Frank Holbrook is in his first season as the Baseball Head Coaching Chair in 2026. A Rhode Island native, Holbrook was named the 18th head coach in program history on June 18, 2025.
With more than a decade of success as both a collegiate head and assistant coach, Holbrook most recently spent two years as an assistant coach at Northeastern. He previously spent five seasons as the head coach at Rhode Island College, five years as an assistant coach at Wheaton College, and also led the Newport Gulls of the NECBL for two years, capturing the 2023 league title.
Holbrook spent the 2024 and 2025 seasons as an assistant coach at Northeastern, serving as the hitting coach and working with the outfielders. In 2025, he helped lead the Huskies to a 49-11 overall record, including a Division I-leading 45 wins in the regular season, a 27-game winning streak, and the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) regular season and conference tournament titles. The Huskies finished the regular season ranked No. 19 in the nation in the D1Baseball.com Poll, No. 22 nationally in RPI, and earned the No. 2 seed in the Tallahassee Regional. Holbrook also coached outfielder Harrison Feinberg to CAA Player of the Year honors. This followed a 2024 season where Northeastern set seven new program records as an offense.
Holbrook gained his first head coaching experience at Rhode Island College, leading RIC for five seasons from 2019-2023 and guiding the Anchormen to a 115-51-1 record. In 2023, Holbrook was named the Little East Coach of the Year after winning the most games in school history (30-13) and securing the program’s first Little East regular season championship (15-1 record). During his tenure, several single-season and program records were reset, highlighted by the 10th-round selection of Andrew Sears in the 2023 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.
During the summers of 2022 and 2023, Holbrook also served as the head coach for the Newport Gulls of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL), overseeing a roster that featured 20 players who went on to be selected in the MLB Draft. He led the Gulls to Coastal Division regular season titles in both seasons, as well as the NECBL title in 2023 when he was named the NECBL Coach of the Year and was selected to manage the East Division team in the league’s all-star game. Two of his players from that championship squad included Brown Baseball alums Jacob Burley ‘23 and Santhosh Gottam ‘25.
From 2014 to 2018, Holbrook served as the Recruiting Coordinator and Assistant Coach at his alma mater, Wheaton College. In 2016, Wheaton won the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC), earning the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA New England Regional. In 2017, they advanced to the College World Series and finished the season ranked No. 12 nationally.
Holbrook earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Wheaton in 2013. As a pitcher, he helped lead Wheaton to four straight NEWMAC championship titles, and four NCAA Division III Tournaments, including a runner-up finish at the 2012 DIII College World Series. Individually, he was a three-time First Team All-NEWMAC and Second Team All-New England honoree. He earned Wheaton’s 2013 Chad Yowell Award as the school’s Male Athlete of the Year. At the time of his graduation, he ranked first in program history in single season wins (10), and second all-time in single season innings pitched (84.2), single season ERA (1.38) and career wins (26). He also sat second all-time with a 2.32 career ERA.
A native of Middletown, R.I., Holbrook graduated from the Portsmouth Abbey School in 2008 where he was a three-sport athlete in football, hockey, and baseball. He was named all-state by the Providence Journal in baseball during his senior year.
| Season | School/Team | Overall | Pct. | Conference | Conf. Pct. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-2023 | Rhode Island College | 115-51-1 | .692 | 49-15 | .766 |
| Total | Five Seasons | 115-51-1 | .692 | 49-15 | .766 |
COACHING TIMELINE
| Season | School/Team | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-2018 | Wheaton | Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator |
| 2019-2023 | Rhode Island College | Head Coach |
| 2024-2025 | Northeastern | Assistant Coach |
| June 2025-present | Brown | Head Coaching Chair |
