Milford High softball head coach Brian Macchi, fresh off leading the Scarlet Hawks to their second straight D1 State Championship, has resigned from his position and has been named one of two assistant principals at Milford High.
Scott Barboza of ESPNBoston.com was the first to report this.
Macchi was named HockomockSports.com's inaugural Softball Coach of the Year this past season after the Scarlet Hawks went 26-1 this past season and 50-1 over the past two seasons, winning the D1 State Title both times.
"It's something I've been looking for in my career going forward," said Macchi. "The past three or four years I've been thinking administration is something I wanted to do. An opportunity presented itself that I just really couldn't pass up - being an assistant principal in my hometown and in a school that I went to and be able to give back to the community that really shaped me - it was a great opportunity I couldn't pass up."
Macchi graduated from Milford High in 1998 before going on to play collegiate baseball at Boston College. He is also the coach of the Milford Post 59 Legion baseball team. At the time of graduating Milford, Macchi said he wasn't exactly thinking about an administrative position.
"At that point I wasn't really thing about an administrative role," he said. "I definitely saw myself as someone to wanted to go into teaching so I could see myself coming back as a teacher and coach."
In his eight years at the helm of the program, Macchi led the Scarlet Hawks to an incredible 168-22 record. The success the program has had was something that was tough to leave behind.
"It was probably one of the more difficult parts of it all, to have to step away from the softball," Macchi said. "You have a bunch of girls that have worked so hard for you and you've built relationships with and it's tough to step away from that aspect of their lives. At the same, being the assistant principal at the high school they go to, I'm going to see them on a day-to-day basis and still support them 100% in their softball endeavors and now also in their careers as a student. I look at it as a different role I'm going to play in their lives and still be someone they can talk to and guide them in the right direction."
Milford will look to fill the void left by Macchi, but that doesn't mean that the old coach won't have a say on the new coach.
"I'll definitely voice my opinion and just be the assistant principal at the school and be apart of the process picking the coach but it's our athletic director Rich Piergustavo's job to decide on who it's going to be," he said.