Coaching Staff

New manager, Gregg Hunt now leads the Blues!

Gregg Hunt has a longtime connection with the NECBL. He managed the Torrington Twisters throughout their existence, and then was named manager of the Manchester Silkworms for their final season in Manchester, CT. He has the second most wins of any NECBL manager with 293. His teams appeared in the NECBL finals four times. He also coached the Torrington Titans in the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball league to the league finals in 2010 and guided the Titans to the league finals in the first year of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League in 2011. Hunt has served as Deputy Commissioner of the NECBL since 2013. 
Hunt has coached baseball at Thomaston High School, Terryville High School and Wamogo Regional High School guiding his teams to two Berkshire League titles and two appearances in the Class S finals. He is a member of the Tri-State Baseball League Hall of Fame and continues to play for both the Washington Monuments and Washington Senators of the Northeast Baseball Association. He currently serves as head basketball coach at Lakeview High School after many years at Wamogo where his teams won 4 League titles and 7 Berkshire League tournament titles. He has guided his teams to 529 wins. He was recently inducted into the Connecticut High School Coaches Association Hall Of Fame. A 1980 graduate of the University of Connecticut’s School of Business, Hunt has two children: David and Kaitlin and three grandchildren Tripp, Kenzington and Max.
 

Hitting Coach - Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens returns for his fourth season on the Blues coaching staff. He has been the team's hitting coach, bringing a wealth of college summer league, College and High School coaching, as well as administrative experience to the program. Former owner of The Strike Zone Baseball and Training Facility in Clinton, CT, Stevens has spent five summers as a hitting coach in the wood bat New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL). Four summers with Manchester Silkworms from 2004-2007 and with the Middletown Giants in 2003 Stevens helped Manchester qualify for its first three NECBL playoff berths. In 2006, the Silkworms led the league with a .279 team batting average - 20 points higher than their nearest competitor. Stevens' baseball resume also includes two seasons (2004-05) as assistant coach at University of Bridgeport , assistant coach at Eastern Connecticut State University (2007) and Iona College (2008). In 2007, he helped lead Eastern Connecticut State to the Division III National Championship in Grande Chute, Wisconsin, where the team batted .326 for the season. A native of West Haven, CT Stevens is a highly motivated and skilled instructor with the expertise to train and develop athletes to reach their potential as players and individuals. Stevens has coached and instructed a number of top college players in the country. To date he has coached over a hundred different players who have gone on to play professionally. Stevens is retired and currently resides in North Carolina when he is not coaching.

Assistant Pitching/First Base Coach - Howard Rebhun

Howard Rebhun has joined the Bristol Blues coaching staff. Rebhun will serve as the assistant pitching coach and 1st base coach. He will also hold a lot of other responsibilities including help with practices/early work, analytics, throwing batting practice, fungos, positioning defense, and running the youth camps.

Rebhun is also going into his 2nd season as a member of the Post University (NCAA DII) coaching staff. Rebhun serves as the assistant pitching coach and 1st base coach there as well. He does a lot at Post with recruiting, video, data/analytics, stats, organizing practices, fungos, positioning defense, and creating their scouting reports.

He was recruited in 2018 as an ambidextrous pitcher by Post University and spent 5 seasons being a pitcher on the staff, ending his career being a part of the 2024 championship team. His passion is being around the game as a coach now and helping as many players as possible succeed and reach the next level. It means a lot for Rebhun to work with the Bristol Blues now, as he has lived in Bristol his entire life playing at Muzzy Field for years.

Previously Rebhun has a lot of coaching experience under his belt already, coaching travel baseball for nearly the last decade out of a couple different facilities-Diamondkings and the Bristol Sports Armory. Most recently in the summer of 2024, he was the manager of a U16 travel ball team while also being an assistant coach of the Southington Knights in the Connecticut Collegiate Baseball League.

Pitching Coach - John Neagle

Coach Neagle returns for his second season as pitching coach. He has spent 20 years in coaching and brings a wealth of experience at both the high school and college levels. Most recently, he spent three years with the New Britain Bees. Prior to that he spent three years in the CCBL. His teams have consistently made the playoffs.

As a high school head and pitching coach, he was won numerous regular season and playoff championships. His teams have finished league first in ERA four times. He has called 12 no hitters and two perfect games. He has coached many all-conference pitchers and sent more than fifty players off to play college baseball. As a private lesson and college coach, he has coached many who have gone on to play professionally, including seven players drafted in 2025, as well as current major leaguer, Brandyn Garcia of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

As a lead instructor for Synergy Missions (Texas) he has helped run baseball camps in Northern Italy for the last few years. The goal of Synergy is to mentor young people while teaching the game of baseball.

He and his wife Christy have three adult children, and have hosted ten exchange students that they call “their other kids”. They are passionate about local and world missions. He has also coached basketball at the Master’s School in Simsbury, in the double AA/Nepsac conference, and among the dozens of players he has sent off to play college basketball is Andre Johnson of Bristol, a two time national champion at UConn. He played his college baseball at UConn-Hartford where he was a middle infielder and pitcher.

Bullpen Coach - Chris Leone

Chris Leone spent 25 years in education before retiring in 2024. He was the youngest superintendent in the history of the state and the only to run three districts simultaneously.

During his career Chris has focused his free time on coaching baseball (primarily pitching) at youth through high school levels.