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Brian Covell currently resides in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as a family
member affiliated with the U.S. Consulate in that municipality. From 2021 to 2023
he and his family lived in Cotonou, Benin, where he served as an assistant coach
for that West African country’s inaugural Under-23 national team. Shortly after his
family ended their stay in Cotonou, he wrote an article on building two-strike
hitting skills for international players in “Inside Pitch,” the ABCA’s membership
magazine. This experience will be the basis of the session he will lead at
this year’s EBCA convention.
After playing college baseball at a junior college in Florida (what is now The
College of Central Florida), and later at an NAIA program (at what is now
Tennessee Wesleyan University), the Reverend Covell had coaching stints at two
New England college programs: Colby College in Maine and Brandeis University,
just outside Boston. He also taught and coached baseball, basketball and American
football at Waterville, Maine, Junior and Senior High Schools, Cardigan Mountain
School in New Hampshire, and Northfield Mount Hermon School in
Massachusetts. He has on an intermittent basis coached baseball at summer camps
and clinics across the Northeast over the past forty years. He retired from full-time
service in parish-based ministry in June, 2014.
