Scott Marsh has completed 21 seasons as a member of the Cornell baseball coaching staff, including 11 as a full-time coach. Marsh works primarily with the Big Red pitchers and serves as the team's recruiting coordinator.
Under Marsh's guidance, the Big Red posted a 3.13 earned run average in 2013 — the program's lowest ERA since 1973. That was even more than a half-run better than the previous year, when the program's pitchers enjoyed a resurgence that helped the team win the Ivy League title. Of the eight pitchers with the most appearances over that season, five were freshmen, but Marsh's guidance helped the young staff excel. Reliever Kellen Urbon '15 was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year and a unanimous All-Ivy First Team selection. Connor Kaufmann '14 was also a first-team selection and tossed the program's first no-hitter in nearly 32 years.
It wasn't the first sucessful season for Marsh with the Big Red. The team finished second in the Ivy League in team ERA in 2003 and 2005 and had a pitcher selected in the Major League Baseball amateur draft in three consecutive years from 2002-04. Erik Rico, the Ivy League Player of the Year in 2002, was selected that year by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 22nd round. Chris Schutt, the league's 2003 Pitcher of the Year, was taken in the seventh round by the Minnesota Twins. Following the 2004 season, Dan Baysinger was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 31st round.
Marsh attended Golden West Junior College from 1981-83, compiling a 16-5 record over two years and tying the school record for most wins by a pitcher. He earned second-team all-state honors as a freshman at GWJC. He then went to UCLA, where he played baseball on a full athletic scholarship, compiling the lowest ERA in the Pac 6 as a senior.
Marsh is a 1986 graduate of UCLA with a bachelor of arts degree in economics. He earned his master's degree in business administration from the University of California at Irvine in 1989 and his master's degree in sports administration from Ohio University in 1994.
Marsh played pro baseball for the San Diego Padres minor league teams in Spokane, Wash., and in Reno, Nev.
