Bill Barrale

Head Coach

Bill Barrale enters his 19th season as the Head Coach of the Williams College baseball team in the 2024-25 academic year.

He was named the head coach of the Ephs' baseball program in 2007 after serving two years as an assistant coach.

He has compiled a 283-261-1 record for a .520 winning percentage at Williams. Barrale's teams have won 23 or more games six times during his tenure as head coach. In his first season as head coach in 2007, the Ephs won the NESCAC Championship and the 27 wins that season were tied for the fourth most in a single season in program history.

At the conclusion of the 2024 season, Henry Juan was named to the D3baseball.com All-Region I Third Team and to the NESCAC All-Conference Second Team for the second consecutive season. During the 2022 season, Eric Pappas garnered All-NESCAC honors for the third time under Barrale's leadership.

In 2019, Williams won the NESCAC West Division title for the first time since 2010. The 2019 Ephs went on to make it to the NESCAC Semifinals with an overall record of 24-11. Senior first baseman Doug Schaffer was named to the Google Cloud Academic All-American First Team and was also the NESCAC Player of the Year.

In his second year in 2008, Barrale guided the Ephs to a record of 24-12 and a second straight NESCAC West title. Barrale captured his third consecutive NESCAC West title in 2009 when his Ephs posted a record of 25-12 and a NESCAC West mark of 9-3.

The deciding game in the NESCAC West 2009 season came on May 3 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, when the Ephs and Amherst squared off in a game celebrating the 150th anniversary of the oldest college game in America. Williams prevailed, 8-5, in a game seen live on ESPN360.com and later on ESPN U.

In April 2009, Barrale's Ephs defeated the third oldest and winningest college team in America when they ventured into Bronx, New York, and defeated NCAA Division I Fordham Unviersity, 5-2.

Prior to joining the Williams baseball and football staffs, Barrale served as the head coach of baseball at Norwich University for five years and as an assistant football coach for six years. With the baseball program at Norwich, Barrale went 54-74 overall and 44-35 in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC). His cumulative record as a Division III baseball coach is 337-335-1.

In the summer of 2002, Barrale was an assistant coach of the Bourne Braves in the Cape Cod League.

Barrale is a 1994 graduate of Northeastern University and was a standout in football and baseball.

Barrale led the 1994 Huskies to a 35-16 record, the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) championship, and was named NAC Tournament MVP and earned NAC All-Star honors.

Barrale received his masters' degree in Student Personnel Services from Rowan University in 2004.

Barrale resides in Williamstown with his wife, Alix, and four children.