Head Coach Matt Noone

Matt Noone enters his eighth season as the Beavers’ skipper, after leading the Beavers to a 23-20 record in 2009 and the regular season NEWMAC title, good for a berth in the NCAA regional tournament. In 2004, Noone led the Babson 9 to its first NEWMAC championship and an NCAA regional appearance. Noone arrived on the Babson baseball scene from Northeastern University, where he was assistant coach for 12 years. He was actively involved with all phases of the Northeastern program under head coach, Neil MacPhee. Noone also serves as the director of the Babson Baseball Summer Camp.

In addition to his tenure at Northeastern, Noone’s coaching experience includes the Bourne Braves and Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League, as well as the Peter Fuller Baseball Club in the Intercity League. He has also served as director and instructor at several baseball camps throughout the northeast. He had a three-year stint as Lead Charter of the Boston Red Sox for Inside Edge, a major league baseball scouting service, rating all players’ performances. He is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association. During the entire time he was coaching at Northeastern, Noone was on the faculty at St. Sebastian’s School in Needham, where he taught US History, Geography, and Algebra.

A 1990 graduate of Princeton University, Noone earned a BA in History. In 2000, Noone earned an MA in Educational Administration from Boston College. He had a stellar baseball career at Princeton, where he was a four-year starting pitcher for the varsity nine, captaining the Tigers in his senior year. The crafty southpaw earned many honors for his diamond exploits, including a spot on the NCAA Division I All-Northeast District team and twice being named to the All-Ivy League squad. He was also an All-Star hurler in the Intercity League for several years.

Coach Noone was named 2004 NEWMAC Coach-of-the-Year for his role in leading the Beavers to the NEWMAC title and its first-ever appearance at the NCAA playoffs. During the Red Sox march to the 2004 World Championship, Coach Noone served as a batting practice pitcher, a  role he continues to play for the Bosox.

A Belmont native, Noone and his wife, Sarah, reside in Needham. They have three children.

Assistant Coach Norm Govoni

A fixture on the Babson campus for 40 years, Norm Govoni begins his eighteenth season as assistant coach. Govoni is a Wellesley native and former baseball standout at Wellesley High School and The Tilton School. After receiving his B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from Syracuse University, where he played freshman baseball as a pitcher-outfielder for the Orangemen prior to the university discontinuing the baseball program. (He maintains that he exemplified the lack of talent that sparked the SU decision to drop the sport.) Dr. Govoni earned his Ph.D from the University of Missouri. He taught at Syracuse University, the University of Missouri, and Bowling Green State University, before arriving at Babson in 1970. At Babson, he has earned awards for teaching and service.

The driving force behind the Babson College Athletics Hall of Fame, the Professor of Marketing serves as Babson's NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative and chairman of the Athletics Advisory Committee. In his younger days, Govoni played amateur baseball in the Boston Park League and the Blackstone Valley League. In 2003, he was honored by the Boston Park League with the Thomas A. Yawkey Sportsman Award for his contributions to amateur baseball. In 2007, he was the first recipient of the Kevin Burr Assistant Coach-of-the-Year Award for outstanding contributions to collegiate baseball. The award is named in honor of the former Tufts University assistant coach and is presented by the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA). Govoni serves as a hitting and outfield coach for the Beavers.

Govoni resides in Medfield. His wife of 41 years, Terry, passed away in January 2005. She was an avid supporter of Babson baseball. They have three children.