Huskies hitting and catchers coach and Coryell will be charged with pitching and will serve as the recruiting coordinator in 2013.

No stranger to the Huskies, Carcione left the Huskies in the fall of 2008 to take a manager’s position with the Ottawa Rapidz, an independent team in the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball through the 2009 season. The club disbanded operations following that season. He went on to become the interim head coach at Metro State during 2009-10 school year and became the full-time head coach the following season.

In his two seasons at Metro State, Carcione led the Roadrunners to a 50-40 overall record and only just missed the NCAA Division II playoffs in 2011 as the team finished 29-17 overall, including a 25-14 record in theRocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Outfielder David Fox was a consensus all-american under Carcione for the Roadrunners, earning honors from the American Baseball Coaches Assocition of America, Daktronics and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association of America. In the classroom, the team had 10 players recognized on the RMAC’s All-Academic team.

He spent the 2008 season as an assistant at NIU, where he was he team’s hitting coach. That year, NIU combined for a .284 batting average, 327 runs and powered its way to 48 home runs. Under his tutelage, a pair of Huskie hitters earned All-Mid-American Conference selections in 2008. Justin Behm, a first-team honoree, hit .299 with 42 RBI and led the team with 11 homeruns while Jeff Thomas, a second-team selection, led the team with a .350