Sean Repay is in his second year as an assistant coach with the Lakeland baseball program, specifically serving as the team’s pitching coach.
In his first season with the Muskies, the pitching staff broke an NCAA Division III record with 22 complete games pitched in 39 games. Lakeland pitchers also accomplished back-to-back complete game shutouts which for the first time in 10 years.
During the summer months, Repay is the bullpen coach for the Gary Southshore RailCats of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. In 2015, the team’s bullpen was one of the best in the league in ERA and saves. In 2014, Repay was named the youngest field manager in professional baseball with the Bisbee Blue club in the Pecos League. He led the Blue to one of the best records in league history for an expansion franchise at 33-30 and fell two games short of a playoff spot.
In his first three years of college coaching, Repay has helped place 10 of his former players into professional baseball. Repay came to Lakeland from the University of Antelope Valley, where he was the pitching coach at the NAIA school in Lancaster, Calif. In 2014 he helped the Pioneers to a 27-23 record while the team faced nationally ranked opponents in 29 of its 50 games and the pitching staff held a 4.14 ERA against that tough schedule. Repay began his college coaching career at Dominican (N.Y.) College, where he was a pitching coach for the NCAA Division II school. Repay helped coach a team that finished second in its conference, and as pitching coach he oversaw a first team all-conference selection, as well as seven pitchers on the staff with an earned run average below 3.50.
Repay also has coached in the high school and summer league ranks. He spent the summer of 2013 as an assistant coach for the Park Ridge Indians of the Metro Collegiate Summer league. Repay has also won an American Legion National Championship while coaching for the Crown Point (Ind.) American Legion team. In addition, he spent one season as an assistant coach at Hebron High School in Hebron, Ind., helping lead them to its best record in 10 years.
Repay also had a successful professional playing career, spending time with three different independent professional baseball organizations from 2009-12. He played for the Desert Valley Mountain Lions of the Continental League as well as the Kenosha Fielders and McAllen Thunder of the North American League. Repay also was in minor league spring training camp with the Toronto Blue Jays organization during his professional playing campaign.
Repay also has served as a baseball scout, previously working for the Baltimore Orioles organization in the Chicago area and as a scout in the greater Los Angeles area.
A Midwest native, Repay played collegiately at the NCAA Division III level at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in political science.
