ANGOLA, IND. - Brett Ratcliffe returns as an assistant coach with the Trine University baseball program in the spring of 2020 after a previous two-year stay during the 2012 and 2013 seasons where they won 25 games each year. This spring will mark his third overall year at Trine.

Ratcliffe has spent 20 years in the high school coaching ranks. Two stints at Garrett winning the 2006 ACAC Conference championship and 2016 NECC Conference Tourney Championship. He spent 5 years at DeKalb as the pitching and catching coach, where they were the 2010 NHC C0-Conference Champions. His first coaching stop was at Homestead, where he spent three seasons as the hitting and catching coach.

Ratcliffe has been involved with USA Baseball since 2002 as a coach on the NABF National Team, spending 2006 as a scout and evaluator. In 2009, Ratcliffe was the pitching and coaching coach for the USA 14U National Team that won gold at the Pan-Am games in Ecuador. Ratcliffe also worked with the 2010 team that took home the bronze at the Pan-Am games in Nicaragua. Currently serving on the Advisory Staff for USA Baseball, Ratcliffe works as a scout/evaluator at different events and camps throughout the United States.

During his playing days, Ratcliffe spent two seasons at Purdue University and before wrapping up his collegiate career at IPFW and signing a free agent contract with the Richmond Roosters of the Frontier League. Ratcliffe graduated from St. Francis College ('98) with a Bachelor's Degree in Special Education.

Ratcliffe resides in Garrett with his wife Stacy and sons, Blake and Easton.