ITHACA, N.Y. — Kyle Canavally, who spent the last four seasons on the coaching staff at Division III SUNY Brockport, has been added to the Cornell baseball coaching staff as an assistant coach, it was announced Tuesday morning (July 15) by Dan Pepicelli, the Ted Thoren Head Coach of Cornell Baseball.

Canavally's main role will be working with the Big Red's pitching staff.

"We are really excited about adding Kyle to our coaching staff," Pepicelli said. "He has a reputation for being innovative, knowledgeable, and a great communicator with his pitchers. I am confident he can make a real impact on our program."

"I am incredibly excited and honored to join the Cornell baseball team as its new pitching coach," added Canavally. "I can't thank Coach Pepicelli enough for this opportunity to work alongside such a great group of student-athletes, coaches, and staff. I am eager to get started and bring my passion for pitching development, along with my commitment to building a winning culture, to this prestigious program. Cornell's tradition of excellence and its rich academic and athletic environment make it an ideal place for growth, both on and off the field."

Canavally joins East Hill after serving as an assistant coach at SUNY Brockport for the past four seasons, where the Golden Eagles posted a 120-50-2 (.703) overall record and a 57-19 (.750) mark in conference play, reached three NCAA Division III Baseball Tournaments, and secured two Empire 8 conference titles.

In addition to his assistant coaching duties, Canavally served as Brockport baseball's strength and conditioning coach during the 2022 and 2023 seasons and was an athletic trainer for the Golden Eagles' men's hockey, men's soccer, women's field hockey, and women's gymnastics teams.

The 2025 season saw Brockport baseball finish with an impressive 36-5-2 overall record and a 21-1-1 mark against Empire 8 competition. They swept the Empire 8 Championship and secured the conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship. Brockport's pitching staff posted outstanding stats, including tying Denison for the most shutouts last season (8), and ranking in the top five in ERA (2.99 – 2nd), hits-per-9-innings (7.03 – 3rd), strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.08 – 3rd), strikeouts-per-9-innings (9.97 – 3rd), and WHIP (0.86 – 4th).

Brockport ranked in the top 30 nationally among Division III programs for strikeout-to-walk ratio and strikeouts-per-9-innings during all four years with Canavally on staff, and it was in the top 10 for WHIP in three of those seasons.

A 2021 graduate of SUNY Brockport, Canavally was a three-year member of the Golden Eagles' baseball team, where he appeared in 20 career games and made five starts. He was a three-time recipient of the Outstanding Academic-Athletic Award and earned SUNY Brockport's Triple 'C' Award in 2020 for character, commitment, and coachability, as well as the Sharon E. Wexley Leadership Award in 2021.

Posting a 4-2 career record with a 3.65 earned-run average, Canavally limited opponents to a .206 batting average over his 49 1/3 innings pitched with the Golden Eagles. He spent his first two collegiate seasons at Onondaga Community College, where he went 6-2 in 21 appearances (12 starts) with a 3.61 ERA in 89 2/3 innings, striking out 89 batters. Four of Canavally's 12 starts ended as complete games, and he also recorded one save during his freshman season.

Originally from Schenectady, N.Y., Canavally earned his bachelor's degree in athletic training from Brockport and is currently pursuing his master's degree in fitness and leadership management at SUNY Plattsburgh.

Canavally is a Board of Certification (BOC) certified athletic trainer qualified in Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers from the American Heart Association and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). He is also a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) and the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA).