Brian Hamm

Brian Hamm is the Fay Vincent ’31 Head Coach of Baseball at Yale University, a position he has held since June 2022. Under his leadership, the Bulldogs have achieved notable success, culminating in the 2025 Ivy League regular season championship—their first since 2017. In 2024, Yale finished the Ivy League regular season tied for third place, closing the year strong with thirteen wins in their final twenty-two games. The 2025 team surpassed the thirty-win benchmark on their way to a 16-5 Ivy regular season record.

Prior to arriving at Yale, Hamm led Eastern Connecticut State University to the 2022 NCAA Division III National Championship. He earned the Skip Bertman Award as National Coach of the Year from the College Baseball Foundation and was named DIII National Coach of the Year by ABCA/ATEC and D3baseball.com.

Prior to his tenure at ECSU, Hamm coached at Amherst College for thirteen years. In nine years as head coach, Hamm oversaw the winningest period in Amherst baseball’s 165-year history. He led the program to four NCAA Division III Tournaments and two NESCAC Tournament Championships and was named NESCAC Coach of the Year in 2011 and 2018. His .725 winning percentage in NESCAC regular-season play is the highest in conference history. During his tenure at Amherst, Hamm produced more MLB draftees than any other Division III head coach.

Hamm is a 2002 graduate of Middlebury College, where he was a two-sport captain in baseball and soccer. He spent three years as an assistant coach at his alma mater. He also served as an Envoy Coach for Major League Baseball International for three years, working with national teams and professional organizations in Europe. In 2009, MLB honored Hamm with the Julio Puente Envoy Coach Award as the coach who most epitomizes excellence in coaching and player development in international baseball. He is the youngest coach to have received this award.

Hamm holds a master’s degree in sport management from the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management. He currently resides in Branford, CT with his wife Maija Cheung, a Yale surgeon and Chief Medical Officer for a global surgery charity.