{{Short description|American baseball player and coach}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Dean Ehehalt | image = | alt = | caption = | current_title = Head coach | current_team = Monmouth | current_conference = CAA | current_record = 801–773–3 | contract = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|9|10}} | birth_place = Middletown Township, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = | player_years1 = 1984–1985 | player_team1 = Brookdale | player_years2 = 1986–1987 | player_team2 = East Carolina | coach_years1 = 1988 | coach_team1 = East Carolina (Asst.) | coach_years2 = 1989 | coach_team2 = Princeton (Asst.) | coach_years3 = 1991 | coach_team3 = Kennesaw State (Asst.) | coach_years4 = 1992–1993 | coach_team4 = Upsala | coach_years5 = 1994–present | coach_team5 = Monmouth | overall_record = 822–811–3 | tournament_record = | championships = *4x Northeast Conference Regular Season (1998–99,07,09) * MAAC regular season (2018) | awards = Northeast Conference Coach of the Year: 1996, 2002, 2005 | coaching_records = }} '''Dean Ehehalt''' (born September 10, 1964) is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Monmouth Hawks baseball team. He was named to that position prior to the 1994 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gomuhawks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=3663851|publisher=Monmouth Hawks|title=Dean Ehehalt Biography|accessdate=December 27, 2013|archive-date=December 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228100803/http://www.gomuhawks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=3663851|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gomuhawks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=1389031|publisher=Monmouth Hawks|title=Dean Ehehalt Bio|accessdate=December 27, 2013|archive-date=December 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228100806/http://www.gomuhawks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=1389031|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.philly.com/2000-05-12/sports/25618846_1_monmouth-county-philadelphia-schools-ehehalt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229071636/http://articles.philly.com/2000-05-12/sports/25618846_1_monmouth-county-philadelphia-schools-ehehalt|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 29, 2013|newspaper=Philadelphia Inquirer|title=Monmouth Strikes Gold In S.J. |author=Marc Narducci|accessdate=December 27, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://wordontheshore.com/dean-ehehalt-selected-as-jim-sullivan-award-winner-cms-795|publisher=Word on the Shore|title=Dean Ehehalt Selected as Jim Sullivan Award Winner|date=June 4, 2011|accessdate=December 27, 2013|archive-date=December 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228072700/http://wordontheshore.com/dean-ehehalt-selected-as-jim-sullivan-award-winner-cms-795|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Raised in Middletown Township, New Jersey, Ehehalt played baseball at Middletown High School North.<ref>Fennell, Ryan. [https://tworivertimes.com/middletown-north-honors-coaching-legend-rich-veth/ "Middletown North Honors Coaching Legend Rich Veth"], ''The Two River Times'', April 13, 2012. Accessed August 28, 2019. "'Coach Veth was a great role model for his players,' said Dean Ehehalt, head baseball coach at Monmouth University and former All-State player for the Lions in 1982."</ref>
Ehehalt played two seasons at Brookdale Community College before completing his career at East Carolina. He spent one season as a graduate assistant with the Pirates before one season as an assistant at Princeton. He returned for one year to complete a master's at East Carolina in 1990, then spent a season as an assistant at Kennesaw State. In 1992, he earned his first head coaching job and helped engineer a turnaround at Upsala. After two seasons, he became head coach at Monmouth. In his time with the Hawks, he has led the team to eight league regular season titles, 16 twenty-win seasons and 6 thirty-win campaigns.
Together with his wife and daughter, Ehehalt has been a resident of Wall Township, New Jersey.<ref>[https://monmouthhawks.com/staff.aspx?staff=53 Dean Ehehalt], Monmouth Hawks baseball. Accessed August 28, 2019. "Ehehalt resides in Wall, with his wife, Lee Ann and daughter, Kelsi Mae."</ref>
==Head coaching record== {{CBB yearly record start|type=coach}} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|name=Upsala|conference=Middle Atlantic Conference|startyear=1992|endyear=1993}} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1992 | name = Upsala | overall = 5–22 | conference = 2–8 | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1993 | name = Upsala | overall = 16–16 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record subtotal|name=Upsala|overall=21–38|confrecord=2–8}} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|name=Monmouth|conference=Northeast Conference|startyear=1994|endyear=2013}} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1994 | name = Monmouth | overall = 13–23 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1995 | name = Monmouth | overall = 19–33 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1996 | name = Monmouth | overall = 25–22 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 1997 | name = Monmouth | overall = 23–25 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = conference tournament | season = 1998 | name = Monmouth | overall = 30–21 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = NCAA Regional }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = conference tournament | season = 1999 | name = Monmouth | overall = 26–24 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = NCAA Regional }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2000 | name = Monmouth | overall = 25–27 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2001 | name = Monmouth | overall = 29–24 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2002 | name = Monmouth | overall = 30–21 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2003 | name = Monmouth | overall = 24–27 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2004 | name = Monmouth | overall = 22–29–1 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2005 | name = Monmouth | overall = 30–24 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2006 | name = Monmouth | overall = 27–22 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = conference tournament | season = 2007 | name = Monmouth | overall = 36–24 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = NCAA Regional }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2008 | name = Monmouth | overall = 37–16 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = conference tournament | season = 2009 | name = Monmouth | overall = 32–25 | conference = 15–11 | confstanding = | postseason = NCAA Regional }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2010 | name = Monmouth | overall = 22–27 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2011 | name = Monmouth | overall = 36–19 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2012 | name = Monmouth | overall = 25–24 | conference = 21–11 | confstanding = 2nd (9) | postseason = NEC tournament{{efn|The top four of the NEC's eight eligible teams qualified for the Tournament in 2012. First place Bryant was not eligible as it transitioned to Division I.}} }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2013 | name = Monmouth | overall = 30–24–1 | conference = 19–11–1 | confstanding = 3rd (9) | postseason = NEC tournament{{efn|The top four of the NEC's nine teams qualified for the Tournament in 2013.}} }} {{CBB yearly record subtotal|name=Monmouth|overall=|confrecord=55–33–1}} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|name=Monmouth|conference=Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference|startyear=2014|endyear=2022}} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2014 | name = Monmouth | overall = 24–25 | conference = 14–12 | confstanding = 4th | postseason = MAAC tournament }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2015 | name = Monmouth | overall = 22–24 | conference = 14–10 | confstanding = 5th | postseason = MAAC tournament }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2016 | name = Monmouth | overall = 30–27 | conference = 16–8 | confstanding = T-2nd | postseason = MAAC tournament }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2017 | name = Monmouth | overall = 20–28 | conference = 11–13 | confstanding = 8th | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = conference | season = 2018 | name = Monmouth | overall = 30–25 | conference = 16–7 | confstanding = 1st | postseason = MAAC tournament }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2019 | name = Monmouth | overall = 27–29–1 | conference = 13–11 | confstanding = 6th | postseason = MAAC tournament }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2020 | name = Monmouth | overall = 5–9 | conference = 0–0 | confstanding = | postseason = Season canceled due to COVID-19 }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2021 | name = Monmouth | overall = 24–13 | conference = 22–10 | confstanding = 2nd | postseason = MAAC tournament }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2022 | name = Monmouth | overall = 24–27 | conference = 12–10 | confstanding = T-4th | postseason = MAAC tournament }} {{CBB yearly record subtotal|name=Monmouth|overall=|confrecord=118–81}} {{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|name=Monmouth|conference=Colonial Athletic Association|startyear=2023|endyear=}} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2023 | name = Monmouth | overall = 16–30 | conference = 6–22 | confstanding = 11th | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2024 | name = Monmouth | overall = 18–30 | conference = 11–16 | confstanding = 9th | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record entry | championship = | season = 2025 | name = Monmouth | overall = 24–30 | conference = 10–17 | confstanding = 10th | postseason = }} {{CBB yearly record subtotal|name=Monmouth|overall=801–773–3|confrecord=27–55}} {{CBB yearly record end|overall=822–811–3}} {{notelist}}
==See also== *List of current NCAA Division I baseball coaches
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