Dave Beccaria, who is entering his 24th season as head coach during the 2024 season, has led the Haverford College baseball program to unprecedented heights. Beccaria guided the Fords to Centennial Conference Championships in the 2012, 2014, and 2016 seasons. In each of those seasons, Haverford has gone on to win a game at the NCAA Division III Mid-Atlantic Regional.

Beccaria has established a tradition of winning during his tenure, compiling an overall record of 454-351-4. Those 454 victories rank as the most by a single manager in program history. His squad has qualified for the Centennial Conference Tournament in 14 of the past 17 years that the postseason tournament has been held. Including his three Centennial Conference Championships, the Fords have played for the conference title eight times during his tenure. Six of those conference championship appearances have come since 2010, as Haverford has been nationally ranked as one of the top Division III baseball programs in that timeframe. 

Two players, Tommy Bergjans ’15 and Charlie Carluccio ’11, have earned All-America accolades under Beccaria’s guidance. Bergjans became the first NCAA D-III player picked in the 2015 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft when he was selected in the eighth round by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Stephen Ridings '17 became Beccaria’s most recent draft pick when Ridings was selected in the eighth round of the 2016 draft. Bergjans reached triple-A in the Philadelphia Phillies Farm system before moving into a front office position with the Minnesota Twins. Ridings signed on the with the New York Yankees organization, becoming the first player in Haverford and Centennial Conference history to reach the major leagues after debuting out of the Yankees bullpen against the Baltimore Orioles in August of 2021.

Also under Beccaria’s watch, Dean Laganosky ’09 was drafted by the Cleveland Indians, while non-drafted free agent Jake Chaplin ’12 signed a contract in the summer of 2012 to join the L.A. Dodgers’ Rookie Arizona League affiliate. Five of Beccaria’s players have signed international professional contracts.

Beccaria is a 1996 graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where he was a third baseman and captain for the Blue Jays. In 1997, he served as Hopkins’ junior varsity head coach and varsity assistant coach while earning his master’s degree in liberal arts. Beccaria joined Haverford’s coaching staff as hitting instructor and recruiting coordinator in 1998 and was promoted to head baseball coach in July 2000.

In the summer of 1994, Beccaria was head coach of the Aarau Hawks of the Swiss National League. He also has served as director of baseball operations and hitting instructor at SportsChallenge, a two-week sports/leadership camp designed for aspiring collegiate student-athletes.

Beccaria was inducted into the Delaware Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016. A member of the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and the ABCA coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Region rankings, Beccaria lives in Springfield, Pa. with his wife, Susie, and daughters Avery and Ellie.