Bio

After starring for the Bentley University Falcons from 2017-21, Ryan Berardino returned to his alma mater in 2023 as an assistant baseball coach.

Berardino played in 148 games during his five seasons at Bentley and put together a .333/.409/.467 slash line with his 185 hits including 36 doubles, four triples and 10 home runs. A 2019 draft pick of the Boston Red Sox, he finished with 114 RBI and scored 102 times.

After hitting a Division II-best .489 as a graduate student in 2021, Berardino amassed numerous honors, including CCA Division II third-team All-America, NCBWA Division II honorable mention, D2CCA All-East and NCBWA All-East. That season, he was also fourth nationally in toughest to strike out, tenth in hits per game and 11^th in on base percentage.

Berardino, who earned his MBA from Bentley after majoring in marketing as an undergrad, is from Sudbury, Mass. Outside of baseball, he works in cybersecurity sales.

His grandfathers, Dwight Evans and Dick Berardino, are well known in baseball circles. Evans is a Red Sox Hall of Famer and Berardino was a former Red Sox coach and a long-time minor league manager.