UMass Lowell Athletics

Dan Cellucci enters his second season with the River Hawks and will serve as an Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator. He comes to the Mill City with experience in collegiate and minor league baseball after a four-year playing career at Bryant University and internships within the Boston Red Sox organization.

Cellucci joins the River Hawks after serving as an assistant coach at Fairfield University. While with the Stags, he coordinated the team’s baserunning strategies as well as assisted the associate head coach with implementing offensive strategies and development.
 
He worked closely with Fairfield’s defensive positioning and assisted in the development of shortstop Noah Lucier, who was named a Brooks Wallace award semifinalist, an award recognizing the best shortstops in the country.
 
Cellucci played four years as a shortstop for Bryant where he helped the Bulldogs to three NEC Championships and four NEC regular season titles. He was named an All-NEC First Team honoree and earned a place on the All-New England Third Team. He sits eighth in Bryant history in games played with 185 and ranks third in assists with 442.
 
After his collegiate playing days, Cellucci spent two years as a player development intern for the Greenville Drive in the Boston Red Sox organization. In that position, he was responsible for advanced scouting reports, capturing and analyzing video, and covered the California League as a Pro Scout. He helped Greenville to a South Atlantic League Championship in 2017 and worked closely with the Boston Red Sox player development staff during to the 2018 World Series title run.
 
His first coaching position came in 2019 as a volunteer assistant coach for Merrimack College, he was responsible for the development of positional player defense and helped shortstop Nick Shumski earn the D2 Rawlings Gold Glove Award.