Brady Kirkpatrick

Brady Kirkpatrick was named pitching coach by Chris Pollard on June 14, 2025. Kirkpatrick comes to UVA after spending three seasons with Pollard at Duke in the same role.

(1.37), third in strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.58) and sixth in strikeouts per nine innings (9.6) along the way to securing a 40-win season.

Under his guidance in 2024, the Duke pitching staff helped capture the program’s second ACC tournament title and held opponents to 4.86 runs per game and a batting average of .220.

In his first season at the helm of the pitching staff, Kirkpatrick helped Duke to a 39-24 record and the program’s third Super Regional appearance, utilizing an opener strategy on the mound. The Blue Devil hurlers set a program record with 675 strikeouts in 2023.

Over his first two seasons at Duke, Kirkpatrick tutored seven MLB Draft picks, three All-Americans and two freshman All-Americans.

Before he arrived in Durham, Kirkpatrick was as an assistant at Florida Atlantic (2022), Harvard (2019-21), Monmouth (2017-18) and Rochester University (2016).

No stranger to the ACC, Kirkpatrick pitched three years at Maryland and his final college season at San Diego. In 2014, he was part of the Terrapins’ first Super Regional team. Kirkpatrick began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at USD and he earned his master’s degree in global business leadership in 2015.

The Eugene, Oregon, native was a two-time Scholar-Athlete Award winner, earning his undergraduate degree in criminology and criminal justice from Maryland in 2014.