Gonzalez joins the Hawks Baseball Program as the lead assistant coach ahead of the 2026 spring season.
Gonzalez joins SUNY New Paltz Baseball after spending last season as the Interim Head Coach at Saint Peters University in Jersey City, NJ where he served as the Associate Head Coach for two years prior (August 2023-August 2025).
Gonzalez has been coaching for the past four years after spending a five-year collegiate career spread across stints at SUNY Ulster, Concordia College, Saint Thomas Aquinas College and SUNY Oneonta. He led the Dominican University junior varsity program and assisted the varsity team for the Chargers for one season before taking over as the Director of Baseball Operations for In the Zone, leading more than a dozen youth programs, implementing camps, clinics and individual lessons while overseeing day-to-day operations.
Gonzalez then joined the Peacocks staff in August 2023 as the Associate Head Coach, leading recruitment of the 2024 and 2025 classes, while coaching hitters and catchers. During the 2024 season, he guided the program to one of its highest to-date, winning 16 games over the course of their season.
Gonzalez grew up in Carmel, NY and played one season at Concordia College before spending two seasons at Saint Thomas Aquinas College and a year at SUNY Oneonta. He earned his Bachelor’s in Business Administration at SUNY Empire in 2024.
