Ben Greenspan

Ben Greenspan is an American college baseball coach and former player. Greenspan is the head coach for the Northwestern Wildcats baseball team, serving since 2023.

Greenspan attended James I. O'Neill High School in West Point, New York where his father was Athletic Director for the United States Military Academy.^[2] He later attended Salisbury School in Connecticut for prep school.^[3]

Greenspan first attended the University of Connecticut, where he played catcher and first baseman for their baseball team for two years.^[4] Before his junior year, Greenspan transferred to the University of Indiana, where he his father was the school's Athletic Director.^[3] He would spend the remainder of his college career with the Indiana Hoosiers baseball team. Greenspan graduated in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in sport marketing and management and later received a master's degree from Indiana in sport administration.^[5][6]

Greenspan's first college coaching job was at Indiana, acting as an assistant coach in various roles from 2009 to 2014. Before the 2015 season, Greenspan joined the Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team as an assistant coach. In 2018, Greenspan was promoted to associate head coach until 2021.^[7] Greenspan then joined the Cal Poly Mustangs baseball team as an assistant coach in 2022, spending one year there.^[8] After his sole year at Cal Poly, Greenspan became an associate head coach again, now joining the Michigan Wolverines baseball team for the 2023 season.^[9][10] Following one year at Michigan, Greenspan was hired as the head coach on August 18, 2023, for the Northwestern Wildcats baseball team before the 2024 season.^[11][12][13]