Alumnus and former RIT baseball standout Sean “Skip” Flanagan is the RIT/NTID Athlete Development Program Coordinator for Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. In this role, Flanagan will work in tandem with the RIT Center for Intercollegiate Athletics, RIT varsity and club coaches and NTID faculty and staff to support the participation of deaf and hard-of-hearing student-athletes on varsity and club teams.
Flanagan, a native of Framingham, Massachusetts, earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in exercise science from RIT’s College of Liberal Arts and currently is working on a master’s degree in educational leadership-intercollegiate athletic leadership at the University of Washington in Seattle. He previously was RIT/NTID’s student-athlete liaison, a student ambassador for NTID, and played professional baseball.
A four-year member of the baseball squad (2012-15), Flanagan is currently third all-time at the university with 72 walks, fourth with 106 RBIs, sixth with 478 at-bats, sixth for fifth with 151 hits, and tied for ninth with 27 doubles. He is RIT's all-time leader with 1,097 career putouts. He was a career .316 hitter with a .410 on-base percentage and a .425 slugging percentage.
Flanagan was named a 2015 D3Baseball.com and ABCA/Rawlings All-New York Region third team pick and All-Liberty League first team selection. He was also a 2014 All-Liberty League second team pick, 2013 ABCA/Rawlings third team selection, and All-Liberty League honorable mention honoree. Flanagan was also selected to play in the 2014 Futures Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game and won the 2013 FCBL Adam Keenan Memorial Sportsmanship and Scholarship Awards.
As RIT/NTID Athlete Development Program Coordinator, Flanagan will meet periodically with coaches of all RIT varsity teams, attend practices and meet with teams to provide educational seminars to improve team dynamics, as well as meet regularly with individual athletes to develop relationships, provide mentoring, support and problem-solving strategies.
