Nino Giarratano

Nino Giarratano

• Schools Adams State College, William Jewell College

• Born ~1963

Biographical Information

Nino Giarratano is a college coach.

After college, Giarratano had a job in Denver, CO with a small real estate company developing Amoco properties, but he attended a tryout camp for the Boise Hawks in 1987, still dreaming of pro ball. [1]

Giarratano was head coach at Trinidad State Junior College from 1989-1994, going 233-86 and taking his team to the junior college World Series three times. He was named National Junior College Coach of the Year by Collegiate Baseball three times in this period. In 1995-1996, he went 77-36 as head coach at Yavapai Community College. He also was head coach at La Veta High School at some point.

Nino was then an assistant coach for two years at Arizona State University in 1997-1998. They went to the 1998 College World Series, finishing second in the nation.

In 1999, Giarratano became head coach at the University of San Francisco. The school has set several season records under his guidance. His school finished first in the West Coast Conference in 2006 when they set a school record of 39 wins. He was named the WCC Coach of the Year for the second season in a row. One of the team's players, Aaron Poreda, would go on to be the first first-round draftee in school annals. Giarratano was fired in March 2022 after a lawsuit was filed against him and USF alleging "persistent psychological abuse and repeated inappropriate sexual conduct". Assistant coah Troy Nakamura had been fired in January after an internal investigation, but Giarratano allowed Nakamura access to baseball operations as late as early March, leading the USF AD to "take actions to make changes in baseball program leadership." [2].

Giarratano coached for Team USA in the 2008 World University Championship, which they won.

Source: San Francisco bio

Year-by-Year Coaching Record

Year	School	Overall Record	Conference Record	Notes
1989	Trinidad State Junior College
1990	Trinidad State Junior College
1991	Trinidad State Junior College	44-22		NJCAA CWS
1992	Trinidad State Junior College	48-14		NJCAA CWS
1993	Trinidad State Junior College
1994	Trinidad State Junior College	52-12		NJCAA Division I CWS
1995	Yavapai College
1996	Yavapai College
1999	University of San Francisco	21-34-1	11-18
2000	University of San Francisco	26-33	10-20
2001	University of San Francisco	28-26	14-16
2002	University of San Francisco	18-38	9-21
2003	University of San Francisco	25-31	17-13
2004	University of San Francisco	27-32	14-16
2005	University of San Francisco	38-18	20-10
2006	University of San Francisco	39-23	15-6	WCC / CWS Regionals
2007	University of San Francisco	27-28	9-12
2008	University of San Francisco	31-26	12-9
2009	University of San Francisco	28-28	12-9
2010	University of San Francisco	28-28	10-11
2011	University of San Francisco	32-25	16-5	CWS Regionals
2012	University of San Francisco	29-30	14-10
2013	University of San Francisco	35-24	15-9	WCC / CWS Regionals
2014	University of San Francisco	25-29	11-16
2015	University of San Francisco	23-31	15-12
2016	University of San Francisco	22-34	14-13
2017	University of San Francisco	29-28	11-16
2018	University of San Francisco	28-30	15-12	WCC
2019	University of San Francisco	30-26	15-12
2020	University of San Francisco	9-8	0-0
2021	University of San Francisco	25-28	16-11
2022	University of San Francisco	28-28	14-13	WCC