Meet the Coaches

Coach Roberts has been the head coach for the Cotuit Kettleers for more than 20 years.

Coach Roberts returned for his 20th season in 2024. During his coaching tenure in the Cape League, which includes two seasons in Wareham in 1984 and 2000 where both teams made the playoffs, coach Roberts has led his team to the playoffs in 16 of the 20 seasons in Cotuit. The Kettleers have brought home the Arnold Mycock Championship Trophy to Cotuit in 2010, 2013 and 2019. In 2012, the team won the President’s Trophy for the best regular season record in the league at 30-14. This was the first time the Kettleers had reached 30 wins under coach Roberts’ leadership.

Mike is a former full-time professor for Asbury University, outside of Lexington, Ky., and Director of the Dept. of Sports Management. Several of his former students have interned for the Kettleers in recent summers. He is currently teaching online Sports Management courses for Spring Arbor University, Spring Arbor, Mich.

In January 2015, coach Roberts was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

He has a daughter, Angie R. Stroman, in Dallas, Texas, and she and her husband, David, have two boys, Tyler and Brock. His son, Brian, lives in Sarasota, Fla., with wife, Diana, and their three boys, Jax, Nash and Cru.

Coach Roberts is engaged to Mary W. Britt. Mary is a retired teacher from Atlanta but grew up in North Carolina. She has two sons who both live in Nashville, Tenn. with their families. Mary has four grandchildren.

Padyn Kesselring is a 23-year-old from Metro Detroit. In 2023, he graduated from Alma College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Integrative Physiology and Health Sciences with a pre-medicine focus and a minor in Chemistry. While at Alma, Kesselring was a four-year varsity catcher on the baseball team, serving as a team captain his senior year, and was named the recipient of the Scot Award for leadership. He captained his final team at Alma to the school’s best finish in more than 15 years. Following his playing career, Kesselring was a graduate manager at Kentucky while working towards a Master of Science degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology.

The summer of 2024 was Kesselring’s third consecutive season in Cotuit. In 2022, he served as the bullpen catcher for the Kettleers and was promoted in the summer of 2023 to assistant coach when the Kettleers won the Western Division and had the league's best record.

Kodie Kolden recently spent his first season as Dallas Baptist baseball’s director of player development and the team’s infield coordinator. Kolden joined the Patriots as a senior in 2023 after spending the previous four seasons at Washington State.

In his lone year at DBU, Kolden was named a Second Team All-Conference USA selection after hitting a team-high .353 with six home runs, 35 RBI, 10 doubles and two triples. He was also second on the team in stolen bases, successfully swiping 21-of-23 bases, a mark that ranks as the eighth-most in a single-season in the program’s Division I era dating back to 2004. Defensively, Kolden was one of the top defensive third basemen in the country, committing just five errors in 108 chances on the hot corner.

Kolden capped off his collegiate career in the NCAA postseason, where he led the Patriots to the finals of the Stillwater Regional. In four games, Kolden hit .470 (8-for-17) with two home runs and three RBI to be named to the Stillwater Regional All-Tournament Team.

Kolden earned his Bachelor’s degree in Sports Science from Washington State and is currently pursuing a Masters in Sports Management.

Elliot Wolf is a 23-year-old from Boston, Mass. Wolf graduated with academic honor from Colby College in May 2024 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He will be attending Northeastern University in the fall of 2024 in their Master’s program in Data Science.

2024 was Wolf's third year in Cotuit. He started off as a game day intern and field worker his first year, then became an analytics intern and field worker in Year 2, becoming an assistant coach for the last week of the season. Wolf then spent his third season as an assistant coach.

Will is a 23 year old from Edison, N.J. Will recently graduated with academic honors from Hofstra with a degree in journalism and a minor in political science. At Hofstra, he spent three years in the student radio station as a sports broadcaster, calling the CAA Men’s Basketball Tournament twice and the Pride’s run in the 2023 NIT. He also broadcasted college basketball games on MSG Networks and SNY over the past two years.

While 2024 was Will’s first summer on the Kettleers coaching staff, he spent the previous three summers in Cotuit, working as the media R&D analyst in 2021 and the MLB Scout Liaison during the 2022 and 2023 seasons. He also currently works as an associate amateur scout for the Toronto Blue Jays.