Tony Guzzo

Tony Guzzo

• School East Carolina University
• High School Norfolk Catholic High School

• Born January 7, 1949
• Died October 10, 2024 in Norfolk, VA USA

Biographical Information

After graduating from East Carolina University, where he played baseball and football, Tony Guzzo was head baseball and football coach at Norfolk Catholic High School, his alma mater, in 1972-1976, after briefly teaching and serving as an assistant coach at Elm City High School the previous school year. He was then a graduate assistant at East Carolina until 1978.

Guzzo became head baseball coach at North Carolina Wesleyan College in 1979, and in four years at the helm, he took the team to the Division III College World Series twice. He was then head coach at Virginia Commonwealth University for a dozen years. He then served as head coach at Old Dominion University from 1995 to 2004, where he coached Justin Verlander. He won over 700 games as a head coach. Following his decade at ODU, he spent time as a member of the North Carolina State University staff in 2005-2006. He was an area scout for the Boston Red Sox in 2007 then became an assistant at Louisburg College. Guzzo returned to Old Dominion as assistant coach in 2017.

Year-by-Year Coaching Record

Year	School	Overall Record	Conference Record	Notes
1979	North Carolina Wesleyan College	18-19	5-7
1980	North Carolina Wesleyan College	22-19	5-7
1981	North Carolina Wesleyan College	33-13	9-3	Division III Regionals / Division III CWS
1982	North Carolina Wesleyan College	29-15	6-2	Division III Regionals / Division III CWS
1983	Virginia Commonwealth University	13-32	0-16
1984	Virginia Commonwealth University	19-28	4-12
1985	Virginia Commonwealth University	20-32	4-14
1986	Virginia Commonwealth University	26-32	4-13	Sun Belt
1987	Virginia Commonwealth University	25-22	5-11
1988	Virginia Commonwealth University	45-16-1	11-5-1	Sun Belt / CWS Regionals
1989	Virginia Commonwealth University	30-15	8-7	Sun Belt
1990	Virginia Commonwealth University	18-29	2-14
1991	Virginia Commonwealth University	35-22	9-8	Sun Belt
1992	Virginia Commonwealth University	35-22	10-6	Metro / CWS Regionals
1993	Virginia Commonwealth University	30-27	4-10	Metro
1994	Virginia Commonwealth University	30-25-1	9-9	Metro
1995	Old Dominion University	39-20	9-9	Colonial / CWS Regionals
1996	Old Dominion University	39-17	13-7	Colonial / CWS Regionals
1997	Old Dominion University	34-20	12-8	Colonial
1998	Old Dominion University	28-29	9-12	Colonial
1999	Old Dominion University	38-17	7-11
2000	Old Dominion University	33-24-1	14-7	Colonial / CWS Regionals
2001	Old Dominion University	19-37	6-15	Colonial
2002	Old Dominion University	26-17	8-12
2003	Old Dominion University	18-33	5-15
2004	Old Dominion University	26-28	13-11	Colonial