2026 Coaches and Staff

Dahm has 31 years of experience as a head coach in collegiate baseball, including 20 years in coaching at NCAA Division I schools and five years as a manager of a collegiate summer league.

His extensive baseball resume includes his current position as the head baseball coach for Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He joined Mount Mercy after serving as head coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes from 2003-13. At Iowa, he led the Hawkeyes to the Big Ten Tournament three times. They finished second in 2010, their highest finish in the tournament since 1982. Prior to his tenure at Iowa, Dahm was the head coach of the Creighton Bluejays from 1993-2003. The Bluejays made back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 1999 and 2000, and Dahm was a two-time Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year in 1999 and 2002. He compiled 800 career wins while coaching at these schools, as well as numerous tournament appearances.

As manager of the Clinton Lumberkings, a collegiate summer team playing in the Prospect League, since 2021, Dahm led the team to the playoffs four out of five years and won the Northwest Division Championship twice. He has also served as a baseball analyst for the Big Ten Network and is general manager for Dahm Baseball 10, LLC, which operates youth baseball leagues, camps and private lessons.

This is his sixth year as head coach for the Delray Beach Lightning. Beau is also the Florida/Texas Director of Advising for Elite Sports Advising.

McMillan recently spent 10 years as associate head coach at Palm Beach Atlantic University. He spent a total of six seasons on the coaching staff at his alma mater, Lynn University, in Boca Raton, Fla., where he was a part of the staff for the Fighting Knights' NCAA Division II National Championship team in 2009.

In his first year coaching LU, he oversaw eight team offensive records shattered as LU won its first national title. The Knights broke marks for at-bats, hits, runs batted in, total bases, runs, walks, on-base percentage and sacrifice flies while also finishing in the top three for doubles, slugging percentage, sacrifice hits, batting average and home runs.

The only player in program history to garner First Team All-Sunshine State Conference accolades twice, McMillan left LU with program records for doubles (49), total bases (394), runs scored (200) and stolen bases (77). He also finished in the top five for games played (196) and started (194), hits (251), at-bats (758), triples (8), home runs (26) and runs batted in (119).

McMillan began his professional career with the Gulf Coast League Marlins before being twice promoted to the Jamestown Jammers of the New York Penn League and the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the South Atlantic League. He later advanced to the Marlins' Triple-A affiliate, the Albuquerque Isotopes.

Following his playing career, he worked with Perfect Competition, a company that promotes performance enhancement, skill and professional development, and sports nutrition.

A 2004 graduate with a degree in business administration, McMillan resides in Delray Beach.

A total of 67 hurlers signed pro contracts under Evans’ tutelage, including at least one in 33 of his 34 seasons, with 14 advancing to the Major Leagues.

Additionally, Evans has seen three Bears selected to pitch for Team USA: Jarrod Mays (1995), Bob Zimmermann (2001 and 2002) and Ross Detwiler (2006). Furthermore, MSU pitchers have been tabbed for first-team all-conference honors 26 times during Evans’s tenure in Springfield, with 15 different hurlers claiming All-America recognition.

During his final decade on staff, Evans’ pupils posted three of the four lowest team ERAs — as well as the top three single-season strikeout totals — in program history.

Evans, who is a Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Class of January 2021 inductee, led a star-studded Bears staff that featured three All-Americans who helped power MSU to a school-record 49 victories and the program’s second NCAA Division I Regional crown in 2015, earning him D1Baseball.com’s National Assistant Coach of the Year award following that season. Under Evans’s tutelage, the Bears paced the Missouri Valley Conference and ranked among the nation’s top teams in earned run average (2.91), strikeouts (553), WHIP (1.22) and shutouts (9), holding the opposition to three runs or fewer in 37 of their 61 games.

Several MSU hurlers enjoyed banner seasons under the direction of Evans, including consensus All-American Matt Hall, who shattered the Valley’s 33-year-old single-season record for strikeouts with a Division I-best 171 punchouts while matching the Bears’ program standard for victories (12). Fellow All-America pick Jon Harris flourished in his third year as a Bear as well, notching an 8-2 record, a 2.45 ERA and 116 strikeouts before becoming the fifth MSU pitcher taken in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft, going 29th overall to Toronto. He also became the fifth Bear to be named MVC Pitcher of the Year and was a Golden Spikes Award nominee. Closer Bryan Young completed the triumvirate of MSU All-America pitchers, notching a club-record 16 saves to go along with a 7-0 mound mark and 1.30 ERA. The right-hander was one of five finalists for the NCBWA’s National Stopper of the Year Award.

Over the past 14 years, Evans has helped develop four of the highest MLB Draft picks in MSU history, with Brett Sinkbeil going 19th overall in 2006, Detwiler as the sixth overall pick in 2007 and Pierce Johnson as the 43rd overall pick in 2012, prior to Harris’s selection this season. In fact, Evans has mentored five first-rounders in the last 17 years, including John Rheinecker, who went 37th overall in 2001.

In 2012, Evans guided a dominant Bears’ pitching staff that posted the best team ERA (2.57) in the country, while ranking fifth in Division I with 537 strikeouts. Both marks shattered previous MSU team records, as did the Bears’ 11 shutouts, which also led the nation. Additionally, sophomore Nick Petree netted numerous All-America honors, as well as the first national player of the year citation for a baseball Bear when Collegiate Baseball tabbed the Clinton, Mo., product its 2012 Louisville Slugger National Player of the Year after he finished 10-4 with the nation’s lowest individual earned run average (1.01). The Bears’ 2013 staff was nearly as impressive, posting a 3.12 ERA for the season, good for the third-best in program history.

A native of Granite City, Ill., Evans played football and baseball at South High School. He pitched his American Legion teams to back-to-back state runner-up finishes and had a 50-8 combined career record in high school and American Legion. He gained Illinois all-state honors in baseball while in high school and, in 2000, he was inducted in the Granite City Sports Hall of Fame.

Evans was 18-7 at Southern Illinois before graduating from SIU in 1981. His 0.84 ERA as a sophomore was third in NCAA Division I, and he tossed a no-hitter against SIU Edwardsville. Additionally, his nine career saves still rank ninth all-time at SIU.

A Central Illinois Collegiate League and Cape Cod League hurler in his own playing days, he returned to Cape Cod as pitching coach at Yarmouth-Dennis and now the Falmouth Commodores.

Last year, Anthony assisted the Commodores' pitching staff as a full-time coach. He spent the 2024-25 season as a student assistant coach at Stetson, working primarily with the pitchers and assisting with hitters.

As a player, Anthony played in Falmouth during the 2021 and 2022 seasons, and he was tied for the most wins in the 2021 Cape season. In the summer of 2023, he played for Bourne, where he threw 4 1/3 perfect innings to complete Game 3 of the Championship Series, giving Bourne the championship win over Orleans.

DeFabbia played at Stetson from 2021-24, serving as a left-handed pitcher and outfielder. Following his collegiate career, Anthony went on to play professionally in the Atlantic League with the Staten Island Ferryhawks.

He is currently the assistant coach at Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and until last season was the assistant coach of the summer collegiate league Clinton LumberKings. In both of these positions, he has been working alongside the Commodores’ new field manager, Jack Dahm.

Previously, McGinn has served as assistant coach at Xavier High School and Kirkwood Community College, both in Cedar Rapids, as well as assistant coach for the Waterloo Bucks.

As a student-athlete, McGinn played for Kirkwood Community College in the position of outfield/first base and then went on to play for the University of the Pacific, part of the Big West Conference, in Stockton, Calif.

From Braintree, Mass., Brendan has enjoyed working as a student manager for the Stonehill baseball team for the past four years, where he has utilized Synergy, Rapsodo and various statistics for player development and scouting purposes. In the 2025 season, he utilized his experience from Stonehill baseball, along with his knowledge of Python and R, and his certifications in Rapsodo and SABR Analytics, as the Commodores’ analytic intern.

Brendan is thrilled to have the opportunity to work for the Commodores once again and make a positive contribution to the team!

He trained at the Military Medical School in Bethesda, Md., and did his orthopedic training at Naval Hospital in Bethesda. He served 16 years in the Navy before coming to Falmouth. Dr. O’Malley was the team physician at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy from 1994-98. He attended the Advanced Team Physician Course and is board certified in the specialty of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery. Dr. O’Malley is the former president of the Irish American Orthopedic Society and a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and American College of Sports Medicine. Dr. O’Malley is currently the Medical Director for the Cape Cod Baseball League.

She received her undergraduate degree from Boston University (BU) and her Master’s Degree from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. While at BU, she was on a full athletic scholarship for women’s lacrosse and played in the NCAA playoffs in 1999-2000. Originally from Syracuse, N.Y., Karen was also a championship Irish Step Dancer and qualified for the World Championships in Ireland. She is a physician assistant working for Falmouth Orthopedic Center, Cape Cod Healthcare, in Falmouth.