Brian Thomas has led the Ursinus baseball team to its best era in the 114 years of the program. He has taken a team that was mired in mediocrity and molded it into a perennial playoff contender.

Thomas, who earned his 100th collegiate win in the 1996 ECAC Division III South championship game, has led Ursinus to post-season play in 12 of the last 15 seasons, including three Centennial Conference Championships.His 400 wins in 21 years make him the winningest baseball coach in the history of the College. His 211-131 record in Conference play ranks him second all-time. His teams have made two NCAA Division III Regional appearances.


Thomas is a Montgomery County product, having graduated from Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School in 1962. He then starred in American Legion ball, the Norristown City League and the Perkiomen Twilight League until 1965. Thomas was selected to participate on the U.S. Army Fort Ord Post travel team in 1966, but was quickly called to duty in Vietnam. In 1967, a war injury ended his playing career. For his service in Vietnam, he was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, Bronze Star With Valor, Purple Heart and the Jungle Expert Badge. He retired from the Army as a First Lieutenant


After being medically retired from the Army, he began his coaching career in Collegeville in the Junior American Legion program and as head coach at Perkiomen Valley High School.

Thomas now has over 40 years of successful coaching experience, including Junior American Legion, high school and college. He is well-known throughout the area as one of its finest teachers of baseball fundamentals and motivators of young people. He has had an unofficial Pennsylvania state record of 41 straight league wins from 1970-73 in the Montgomery County Junior Legion League, and has coached teams to Pennsylvania Junior Legion sectional and state playoffs 15 times, with the 1991 team placing second in the state. He also won two league titles in three years (43-18) at the Perkiomen School, was named the Pottstown Mercury Area High School Coach of the Year in 1989, and won over 788 combined Junior Legion, high school and college games.

Most recently, he was inducted into the prestigious Montgomery County Coaches' Hall of Fame in 2007.

Thomas, who was selected to coach at the Roberto Clemente All-Stars Camp in Puerto Rico in the summer of 1997, was recently inducted into the Pennsylvania American Legion Hall of Fame in 1999, the Plymouth Whitemarsh High School Wall of Honor in 2000 and the Perkiomen School Hall of Athletic Honor in 2001.

Thomas resides in Green Lane with his wife Sue, senior associate director of admission.