NORTON, MA- Tom McMahon and Pete Pasquarosa, who each have prior coaching experience at the college level, join the Wheaton College baseball team as assistants for their first season this spring. Both worked with the squad during its non-traditional fall campaign.

After coaching for two years in California, McMahon, a Bowdoin College graduate, returns to New England. McMahon assisted the Pomona-Pitzer Colleges program from 2007-08, as the squad earned the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) title in 2007, qualifying for the NCAA West Regional Tournament.

McMahon coached with the Belgium-based Brussels Kangaroos baseball club in 2006, heading four teams with players ranging in ages from 6 to 30. In addition to coaching, he played for a team that went 22-2 and won the national championship. McMahon also coached Belgium's national Little League team to the Trans-Atlantic Regional Tournament in Poland, and another squad he coached during the summer advanced to the Senior League World Series in Maine.

During his college career, McMahon earned all-league honors and was a reserve quarterback for three years on Bowdoin's football team. A 2005 college graduate, McMahon earned a degree in government and legal studies. He is working toward his initial licensure of education from the Massachusetts Department of Education at Bridgewater State College.

Pasquarosa has been involved in coaching for more than two decades, including serving a pair of stints as an assistant for teams in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL), most recently coaching with the Harwich Mariners each summer since 2004.

From 2007-09, Pasquarosa was an assistant coach at New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) counterpart Babson College, which he helped win the league tournament title and qualify for the NCAA Tournament in 2009. During the prior two springs, Pasquarosa assisted Division I Boston College, which set a school record with 37 wins in 2005.

Between 1988 and 2004, Pasquarosa worked with the baseball program at nearby Franklin High School, being honored as an American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) regional coach of the year in 2000 while earned a top coaching accolade from the Boston Globe. Two years later, Pasquarosa was lauded at Fenway Park for earning a statewide sportsmanship award. After earning an associate's degree from Dean College in 1974, Pasquarosa played two years for Georgia Southern University, graduating with a degree in health and physical education in 1978, and received a master's degree in education from Salem State College in 2007.