Coaching Staff
Ben Harley
Assistant Coach, Pitching
Coach Harley joined the Saint Martin’s University baseball coaching staff in the fall of 2025 as the Pitching Coach.
Prior to joining Saint Martin’s University he coached six seasons at Centralia College, where he was the head coach for 5 seasons. In the spring of 2024, Coach Harley led the Blazers to the most wins in a single season in program history with 30 wins; in the spring of 2025 he led the Blazers to their deepest playoff run in over 20 years. During his tenure at Centralia College he helped send on 64 players to continue to play at four-year schools throughout the country.
During the 2022 and 2023 summers, Coach Harley coached for the Kalamazoo Growlers of the Northwoods League where he worked with 60+ pitchers from throughout the country from every level of college baseball. The Kalamazoo Growlers finished as the 2022 Northwoods League champions for the first time in franchise history. In 2023 he led the Growlers pitching staff to the second best ERA in the NWL. During the 2023 summer the Growlers set a franchise win record along with winning their division. From the 2022 and 2023 rosters, 14 players have been drafted or signed to professional baseball.
In the summers of 2024 and 2025 Coach Harley served as the head coach for the Battle Creek Battle Jacks in the Northwoods League leading them to their first I-94 Cup victory since 2017.
Coach Harley also spent nearly two years working for Driveline Baseball as the Youth Academy Assistant Coordinator where he helped establish the new program being built by Driveline to serve the Northwest baseball community.
Before coaching at Centralia College, Coach Harley was the head coach at Valley Catholic high school in Beaverton, Oregon where he led the team to back-to-back playoff appearances while sending multiple players to the D1, D3 and JUCO levels. He also had stints coaching at Peoria, Milwaukie and Rex Putnam high schools serving in a multitude of roles.
Coach Harley holds a BA from Oregon State University and a MAT from Lewis and Clark College. He has been married for seven years to his wife Haleigh. They have three children together: Harper, Clayton and Nolan, along with a dachshund dog named Yogi.
Trent Verlin
Assistant Coach
Coach Verlin was the lead assistant at Menlo College for the 2024 and 2025 seasons, after spending the previous two seasons as an assistant coach at Bowling Green State University. In his time with BGSU, Coach Verlin helped the Falcons to 38 wins, including the program’s first 20-win season in six years in 2021. Working primarily with the Falcon catchers, Verlin helped the team to the second-best caught stealing percentage in the Mid-American Conference.
Prior to his time at Bowling Green, he spent three seasons at NCAA DIII powerhouse Penn State Harrisburg. Working as the hitting coach and recruiting coordinator at Harrisburg, he led the Nittany Lions to 71 wins, including a program-record 33 in 2019. The team produced an incredible average of nine runs per game over his three seasons. Verlin was also responsible for recruiting Vermont Gatorade Player of the Year Nick Fitzgerald to the program.
Verlin graduated from the University of the Pacific in 2017, with a degree in sports management. He served as a Student Assistant Coach for the Baseball Program at UoP. He also holds a Master's Degree in Athletic Coaching from Concordia Irvine.
Ryan Linden
Assistant Coach
Ryan Linden spent the 2024 and 2025 seasons as an Assistant Coach at Oregon Tech. 2024 and 2025 teams broke the school record for wins. 2025 NAIA Opening Round National Tournament Appearance… first time in program history. Coached Tyler Horner back-to-back Academic All-American of the Year and All-American honors. Additionally, Horner was named Academic All-American Team Member of the Year. Coached Patrick Barry, 2025 Academic All-American 2nd Team.
Prior to Oregon Tech, served as an assistant coach at Antelope Valley College, working with outfielders and serving as third-base coach...served as head coach at Wilson High in Tacoma, Wash., leading team to the 3A state tournament...named Pierce County League Coach of the Year...is the head coach of the Gumbaroos of the Pacific International League.
Personal: Linden is a graduate of Portland State with a degree in fine arts and biology, has a Masters in Teaching with a chemistry endorsement from the University of Puget Sound...currently working on a EdD in Global Sports Leadership from East Tennessee State.
Taylor Boster
Assistant Coach