North Carolina A&T University head baseball coach Ben Hall notched his 150th career coaching victory by defeating the Canisius Golden Griffins by the score of 16-4 this past Saturday March 19th in non-conference baseball action at the War Memorial Stadium.
During his tenure at NCA&T, the Aggies finished with winning seasons in 2017, 2018, and 2019 under Hall, marking the first time the program has had back-to-back-to-back winning seasons since being hired in 2015. Hall led the Aggies to 89 wins from 2017-2019 and 16 MEAC wins in 2017 and in 2018.
Coach Hall was named the interim head coach at North Carolina A&T on Oct. 23, 2014. He became the permanent coach on July 21, 2015. Hall has guided the baseball program from 10 wins in 2014 to the top of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in 2018 as they won the MEAC regular-season title and led N.C. A&T to the NCAA Division I Regional.
Hall came to N.C. A&T after spending three seasons with the Winthrop University baseball program. He also worked at Division II Wingate University for four seasons, starting as a graduate assistant before being promoted to an assistant coach in 2010, where he worked with hitters and infielders.
Ben Hall played collegiate baseball at Stetson and Daytona Beach Community College before transferring to Clemson. After lettering twice at Clemson University in baseball, Hall began his coaching career as a student assistant coach at Clemson.
He received his undergraduate degree in sports management from Clemson in 2007 and his Master of Business Administration degree from Wingate University in 2009.
Since taking over the helm of Aggie baseball, Ben Hall, a native of Johnson City, Tennessee, has led NCA&T to the MEAC Conference Tournament in 2017, and the MEAC Southern Division title in 2018 and 2019. Hall also won a HBCU baseball national title in 2018, MEAC Coach of the Year in 2017, and Black College Nines Elites Coach of the Year in 2017.
Hall has set his sights on winning a Big South title as the athletic department has recently joined the The Big South Conference.