Jason Falcon will be entering his 10th season as Clark’s head baseball coach. A 1997 graduate of Western New England College, Falcon was a four-year baseball player, a two-year team captain and most-valuable player. He earned numerous accolades, including Constitution Athletic Conference (CAC) Player of the Year in 1995. That season, Falcon led the Golden Bears to the CAC Championship as he posted a 5-1 conference pitching record and hit .405 to rank fourth among conference batters. Falcon earned CAC All-Conference recognition two more times and was selected to play in the New England All-Star Game at Boston's Fenway Park. He also played for Team USA International, which won a gold medal in a tournament in Belgium. After graduation, Falcon signed as a free agent with the Massachusetts Mad Dogs, an independent professional baseball team, where he pitched for two years. Falcon has managed a team in the New England College Baseball League for the past two years. In 2007, Falcon was named head coach of the Holyoke Giants (now the North Shore Navigators), where he led the team to the Northern Division Championship, best overall record and semifinals of the NEBCL playoffs. For his efforts, Falcon was named the league’s Manager of the Year.
Other coaching stints for Falcon included directing Team USA International, which won the gold medal in the Flanders Invitational and the German Open and a four-year stretch (2002-2005) with the Bay State Central District baseball team at the Bay State Games—the team won a bronze medal in 2003. Falcon has also served as an assistant baseball coach at his alma mater and UMass-Boston, and coached the Central Massachusetts Collegians of the NECBL. In addition, Falcon worked at the Nomar Garciaparra/Mo Vaughn Hitting Camp for eight years and as a personal pitching instructor for two years at the Motivated Sports Complex in Danvers, Mass.
In addition to coaching baseball, Falcon is the supervisor of the Kneller Athletic Center. Falcon resides in Sutton, MA with his wife, Tracy, and sons Ryan and Chase.
Gavin Mish was named an assistant coach in the summer of 2005. Mish is a 1994 graduate of Johns
Hopkins University and played baseball for the Hopkins Blue Jays during his time there. His coaching
experience includes time as an assistant at Brandeis University, coaching a group of Spanish All-
stars in Bilbao Spain, and head coach of a team in the Yawkey Baseball League of Boston. More
recently, Mish served as an assistant coach in the NECBL with the Mill City All-Americans from
2001 to 2003 and served as head coach at Cathedral High School in Boston from 2003-2005. Mish is
a certified umpire in the South Shore Umpires Association and is fluent in Spanish. He resides in
Natick, Mass., with his wife Zoa.