St. Thomas Aquinas baseball assistant coach, Joe Curreri was selected to participate in the 25th Scout Development Program being held in Phoenix, AZ. from September 25th to October 7th.  The program is conducted by the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau and is designed to improve and better prepare qualified individuals for a career as a professional scout and/or front office administrator.

Curreri enters his 4th season as the Spartans Pitching Coach.  He has wasted no time making an impact as the Spartan pitchers have consistently maintained an ERA in the low 3.00s and finished 3rd and 2nd respectively in 2009 and 2010. 

Curreri pitched collegiately for Long Island University where he was in the top ten in strikes outs per nine innings in 1999.  That same year he was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the 23rd Round of the MLB Draft and went on to play six years with the White Sox Organization.