Bob Macaluso enters hisfourth season with the UC Irvine Baseball program. Macaluso joined the UCI staff after serving in a similar capacity at Cal State L.A., where he helped the Golden Eagles win the 2007 Division II West Regional title and advance to the College World Series in Montgomery, Alabama. Macaluso served as the team's third-base coach and worked with the infielders.
From 1998-2006, Macaluso was the head baseball coach at Muhlenberg College. Taking over a program that had never finished higher than ninth in the Centennial Conference, Macaluso led Muhlenberg to a fourth-place finish in his first season. In 2002, the Mules recorded a school-record 23 wins en route to an appearance in the conference championship series. The following season, the team posted a 21-14-1 record and advanced to the championship series for the second consecutive year. Under Macaluso's tenure, Muhlenberg had its first conference Player of the Year, its first all-regional honoree and saw the school's first no-hitter.
Macaluso has coached in the Cape Cod Baseball League, managing the Brewster Whitecaps for the last five years and was named Manager of the Year in 2003. He served as an assistant coach for the club from 2000 - 2002, helping the team win the league title in 2000.
He began his coaching career as an assistant at Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts and became the head varsity coach at Weston High School (Massachusetts) in 1993. He also had a two-year stint from 1996-98 as an assistant coach at Springfield College.
Macaluso earned a B.S. in physical education from Springfield College in 1987 and his master's degree in physical education in 1998.
Macaluso resides in Garden Grove.
