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The 2008 season marks the ninth season at the helm of the Georgetown baseball team for head coach Pete Wilk. Since taking over the Hoyas in the summer of 1999, Wilk has rebuilt the program. In 2004 and 2005, Wilk guided the team to its most successful two-season win total (50) since the 1984-85 seasons. Wilk also was named Coach of the Year by The Hoya for his efforts in 2004. During his tenure on the Hilltop, Wilk has implemented a Career Night for current Hoya baseball players to get career advice and network with GU baseball alumni. Wilk has also initiated the preseason First Pitch Dinner which is a fundraiser exclusively for the baseball program. The inaugural First Pitch Dinner in 2005 featured Terry Francona, manager of the World Champion Boston Red Sox, as the guest speaker and television and radio personality Mike Barnicle as the emcee. Wilk has seen three Georgetown players move onto the professional ranks, Parker Brooks (C'05), Michael Lombardi (B'04) and Eddie Pena (B'05). Before becoming head coach at Georgetown in 2000, Wilk served as an assistant coach with the Hoyas for the 1998 and 1999 season. Wilk came to the Hilltop in the fall of 1997 after serving as the head baseball coach at Acton-Boxboro High School in Massachusetts, where he helped turn around a program that previously went 3-17 into a 13-10 team that made an appearance in the 1996 state semifinals. Prior to coaching at Acton-Boxboro, Wilk served as an assistant coach at Harvard University for four years (1992-95). He began his collegiate coaching career at Boston University where he was an assistant coach for two seasons (1990-91). In addition to his Georgetown coaching duties, Wilk was an assistant coach for the Harwich Mariners of the prestigious Cape Cod summer league, which won the Eastern Division title in 1997 before the Barrington, R.I., native took over the helm of the Mat-Su Miners of the Alaska Baseball League in 1998 and 1999. Wilk has a wealth of international baseball experience. He has previously worked baseball clinics in the Dominican Republic (2000, '01, '02, '05), as well as in Germany (1996) and Sweden (1994) for Major League Baseball. In January 2001, he worked a clinic in Oslo for the Norwegian Baseball Federation. Wilk is a 1987 graduate of Rollins College, where he earned a degree in American Studies. Coach Wilk at a glance...
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