CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Kyle Decker is set to re-join the Harvard University baseball staff as an assistant coach ahead of the 2023 season after serving as an assistant coach at Dayton during the 2021 and 2022 seasons and previously serving as an assistant coach with the Crimson during the 2019 and 2020 seasons, Bill Decker, The Joseph J. O'Donnell '67 Head Coach for Harvard Baseball, announced on Saturday.
 
Decker returns to the Crimson after spending the last two seasons (2021, 2022) as an assistant coach at the University of Dayton, serving as the team's hitting and infield coach. He helped lead the Flyers to the championship game of the Atlantic 10 Tournament in 2021.
 
During his time at Harvard during the 2019 and 2020 seasons, Decker helped lead the team to the 2019 Ivy League title and a berth in the NCAA tournament, including a trip to the Oklahoma City Regional. With the Crimson, he served as the team's infield coach and worked with the program's hitters.
 
Prior to Harvard, Decker served as an assistant coach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 2018 season.
 
Decker also has experience as a coach in summer collegiate baseball leagues. He served as an assistant coach with the Plymouth Pilgrims of the New England Collegiate Baseball League during the summer of 2017. In the summer of 2015, he acted as the interim head coach of the Torrington Titans of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League and gained the full head coaching role at the conclusion of the season.
 
As a player, Decker competed on the professional level in both Australia and Belgium.
 
On the collegiate level, Decker played at both Trinity College (2012 and 2013 seasons) and Oberlin College (2014 and 2015 seasons). He helped the Bantams win the NESCAC title in 2012 before helping the Yeomen capture the 2015 NCAC title. He gained both All-NCAC and New York Regional All-Tournament Team accolades in 2015. Decker earned a bachelor's degree in Politics from Oberlin in 2016.