Leif Bigelow joins the Wesleyan baseball program as Pitching Coach ahead of the 2025–26 season. He comes to Wesleyan after serving as Director of Player Development at the University of Connecticut during the 2024–25 season, where he helped guide UConn to a Big East Regular Season Championship.
In the summer of 2025, Bigelow served as an Assistant Coach for the Norwich Sea Unicorns of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, contributing to the team’s third consecutive Futures League Championship.
As a collegiate pitcher from 2019–2024, Bigelow competed at UConn, UMaine, East Tennessee State, and UMass. In 2024 at UMass, he made 18 appearances, logging 44.1 innings with 42 strikeouts, a 4.26 ERA, two saves, and a 4–3 record—highlighted by a career-best eight strikeouts over seven innings against Dayton in the Atlantic 10 Championships.
His 2023 season at ETSU included eight relief appearances and a 1–0 record. In 2022 at Maine, he went 2–0 with a 4.22 ERA and 31 strikeouts across 32 innings, holding opponents to a .195 batting average. During the shortened 2020 season at UConn, he made two appearances, including a 3.2-inning outing against No. 1 Michigan, recording two strikeouts.
Bigelow holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Maine and a Master of Science in Sport Science and Coach Education from East Tennessee State University.
A native of Brattleboro, Vermont, he currently resides in South Glastonbury, Connecticut.
