Sean Scanlon '25 enters his first season as the Director of Player Development for Holy Cross baseball for the 2026-27 academic year.
A two-time team captain (2024, 2025) and one-time Patriot League Tournament Champion (2025) is back on The Hill after a collegiate playing career as a two-way player. A two-time winner of the Hop Riopel Award (2022, 2023) given to the team MVP, Scanlon appeared in 163 games as a hitter for the Crusaders, slashing .270/.427/.435 for a .862 OPS with 15 home runs and 97 RBI. His name is all over the Holy Cross record books as the career program all-time leader in walks (114), while ranking third in career hit-by-pitches (40), third in sacrifice flies (11), fourth in doubles (43), tied for eighth in runs scored (109) and tied for 10th in home runs (15).
On the mound, Scanlon’s 32 games started rank tied for 10th in program history. He amassed 103.1 innings pitched with 62 strikeouts across 41 appearances in purple. Scanlon earned All-Patriot League second team honors twice (2022, 2023), was the 2025 Patriot League Preseason Player of the Year and a winner of the team Ron Soucie Award given to the team Rookie of the Year (2022) and Robert T. Curran Leadership Award (2025).
In 2026, Scanlon competed for Richmond as a graduate student, appearing in 48 games and making 37 starts for the Spiders. He tallied six home runs, 24 RBI and nine doubles, helping his squad to a 33-24 overall record and a 20-10 mark in A10 play.
Scanlon graduated from Holy Cross with a Bachelor of Arts in history in 2025 and earned his Master of Liberal Arts at Richmond in 2026.
