Pat Horvath
| Title: | Head Coach |
| Phone Number: | 215-951-5371 |
| Email Address: | horvathp@philau.edu |
Pat Horvath was hired at the head coach of the Philadelphia University baseball team in June 2010.
Before coming to East Falls, Horvath was an assistant coach for Division I Rider University, where he worked with the catchers and was the third base coach, during the 2010 season. In his one season at Rider, the Broncs won the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference crown and went to the NCAA Regional Tournament in Austin, Texas.
In 2009 Horvath was the head coach at Santa Fe Catholic High School in Lakeland, Fla. He spent two seasons with San Diego Christian College (SDCC) as the head coach in 2008 and an assistant in 2007. At SDCC, Horvath had two players drafted in the 2008 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft and the team had a cumulative grade point average of 3.0. Horvath also has coaching experience at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Palm Beach Atlantic University, his alma mater.
At Palm Beach Atlantic, where Horvath graduated in 2004 with a bachelor of arts and science in history, he was a catcher for two seasons. Horvath also attended Faulkner State Community College in Alabama. He will complete his master’s degree in sports management from the United States Sports Academy in 2012
Horvath resides in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., with his wife Jackie and son Maximus.
Pete Fischer
| Title: | Assistant Coach |
| Phone Number: | 215-951-5371 |
Peter J. Fischer enters his second season as an assistant coach for the Rams under Head Coach Pat Horvath.
Fischer is also currently the first base coach for the Philadelphia University Rams baseball team. He coaches hitters on the fundamentals of the game, and works mainly with outfielders and first baseman. Fischer is also instrumental with different recruiting and scouting techniques.
As the head instructor at the Marzano Baseball Academy, Fischer taught the fundamentals of hitting, throwing, speed and conditioning to students ages 9 through 17 in both group and individual settings. He also assisted in the start-up of the Marzano Scout League.
In 2005 Fischer was named All-CACC at Delaware County Community College. While attending Burlington County College in 2008 he was named Second-Team All-GSAC.
A 2003 graduate of Roman Catholic High School, Fischer earned First-Team All-Catholic Honors and Third-Team All-City Honors in 2003. Also in 2003, Fischer was a member of the Philadelphia Phillies High School Scout Team.
Fischer served in the United States Marines as a Lance Corporal in Operation Iraqi Freedom from March 2006 to October. He was honorably discharged from the military in May 2008.
Fischer currently resides in Philadelphia, Pa., with his wife Amanda.
Miles Miller
| Title: | Assistant Coach |
| Phone Number: | 215-951-5371 |
| Email Address: | millermb@philau.edu |
Miles Miller is in his second season as the pitching coach for the Philadelphia University baseball program.
Miller, a native of Tahoe City, Calif., was the pitching coach for the New Bedford Bay Sox of New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) this past summer. The Bay Sox were second were in the league in opponent batting average, hits allowed and third in earned run average (ERA). Two Bay Sox pitchers played in the 2011 NECBL All-Star Game.
He spent the summer of 2010 as the pitching coach of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League’s (ACBL) Torrington Titans. The Titans posted the league’s second best ERA and had three pitchers on the ACBL Top 25 prospects list. Two pitchers—Chris Reed (16th overall to the Los Angeles Dodgers and Brooks Belter (25th round to the Tampa Bay Rays)—were selected in the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft.
Before joining the Titans’ staff, Miller was the first base coach and worked with the hitters and infielders, including Great Northeast Athletic Conference third team selection Kyle Calechman, at Albertus Magnus College during the 2010 season.
Miller pitched collegiately at Grand Canyon University (2006-07) and San Diego Mesa College (2003-05). He graduated from Grand Canyon with a degree in business management.
Miller, now residing in Philadelphia, will be the pitching coach for the Waterloo Bucks of the Northwoods League in the summer of 2012.
