Lycoming College

After 52 years, head coach Rick Oliveri led a Lycoming College baseball team onto the field for the first time in 2023, helping the Warriors make an immediate splash in the Mid-Atlantic Region. He is set for his fourth year with the team in 2026 and his fifth year at the college.

In three years, Oliveri has mentored two all-region selections, 10 all-conference picks and eight academic all-district honorees and helped the team earn the ABCA Team Academic Excellence award twice as well as make one appearance in a postseason tournament.

The Warriors, after finishing ninth in the Landmark Conference in 2024, secured their first postseason appearance in school history in 2025, as Lycoming finished fifth in the league with a 12-12 conference record. Oliveri helped the team to a school-record 21 wins and the program's first .500 season since 1970. Along the way, Lycoming players set single-season records for pitching wins, saves, batting average, hits, runs, homers and RBI. Two Warriors earned all-region honors, seven earned all-conference accolades and four earned academic all-district recognition.

The Warriors, voted to finish ninth in a preseason coaches poll, finished tied for sixth in the MAC Freedom standings in Oliveri's first on-field season in 2023, as the team stayed in the hunt for a conference championship slot until the second-to-last day of the regular season, helping him earn MAC Freedom Coach of the Year honors.

Oliveri's first win with the Warriors came two days after the season began on Feb. 20, as they toppled Greensboro, 16-3. The Warriors' first home game was a 9-5 MAC Freedom victory over DeSales University, one of three wins for the Warriors this year against teams that made the MAC Freedom Championship, at Muncy Bank Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field. On April 2, the Warriors swept Delaware Valley University in a MAC Freedom doubleheader, 12-7 and 6-4, the team's first sweep since downing Juniata College on May 16, 1970.
 
Oliveri spent 12 years as a coach at the Division I level, working for five years at George Washington University, five before that at Monmouth University and two at Radford University. In 13 years as an assistant coach, he helped his teams to 10 winning seasons and 360 wins.
 
Oliveri worked as the pitching coach at George Washington, also serving as the team's academic coordinator and recruiting coordinator for his last three seasons, helping the team to a .500 or better record in all five seasons in the capitol.
 
Oliveri made an instant impact as the team's academic coordinator after taking over in the spring of 2019, raising the team's GPA from 2.81 to 3.06 in a year's time. His influence was also shown in the team's recruiting, signing a top-100 class in 2019 according to Perfect Game.
 
On the field, Oliveri presided over the team's pitching staff, culminating in a 3.26 team ERA in 2020 that ranked second in the A-10. He turned around a pitching staff that ranked 11th in the A-10 in ERA the year before he arrived to finish in the top half of the league in four of his five seasons.
 
At GW, two of his pitchers were drafted: Eddie Muhl in the 25th round in 2017 and Will Kobos in the 19th round in 2018, both by Pittsburgh. Muhl earned a spot on the Atlantic 10 All-Conference Second Team in 2017 while Kobos earned ABCA All-East Region Second Team honors in 2018.
 
Oliveri came to GW following a successful five-year stint at Monmouth University where he played a key role in the development of the 2016 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year Ricky Dennis. He helped the Hawks made the conference tournament each of his five years with the program.
 
One of his pitchers was drafted as well, as left-handed pitcher Anthony Ciaverlla was taken in the 24th round by St. Louis in the MLB Draft in 2016.
 
Prior to his tenure at Monmouth, Oliveri was a volunteer assistant at Radford University, where he primarily worked with the team's catchers. He began his career as the graduate assistant at Lincoln Memorial University in 2009.
 
A native of Buffalo, New York, Oliveri was a three-year starter and two-year team captain at the University at Buffalo. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in business administration in 2008. Oliveri earned a Masters of Business Administration from Lincoln Memorial University in 2009.
 
Oliveri’s father, Richard, was drafted in the 15^th round by the Los Angeles Dodgers of the 1974 MLB June Amateur Draft out of Bishop Fallon High School in Buffalo and played two seasons of professional baseball. His sister, Cassondra, was a four-year letterwinner as a swimmer at the University at Buffalo from 2004-08.
 
He and wife, Stephanie, and son, Rico, live in Williamsport.
   

The Oliveri File
Hometown: Buffalo, N.Y.
Wife - Stephanie
Son - Rico
Education
2008	Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration	SUNY Buffalo
2009	Masters of Business Adminstration	Lincoln Memorial University
Baseball Experience
2004-08	University at Buffalo	Catcher
Coaching Experience
2009	Lincoln Memorial University	Graduate Assistant
2010-11	Radford University	Volunteer Assistant
2012-16	Monmouth University	Assistant Coach
2017-21	George Washington University	Assistant Coach
2022-Pres.	Lycoming College	Head Coach

Oliveri Year-By-Year
Year	W	L	Pct.	Note
2023	12	23	.343	MAC Freedom Coach of the Year
2024	9	31	.225	Brandon Park Baseball Field opens
2025	21	21	.500	First postseason appearance in program history
Total	42	75	.359